Local Students Do Well in Regional Science Fair

In the Sunday Feb. 10 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal, reporter Fran Daniel wrote about the Region V Science Fair on Saturday, in which a number of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County students participated. 

Daniel’s story features, Gehao “Leo” Pang, a Hanes Magnet School student whose project that looked at ways to recover cooking oil. It earned a second-place award in the Middle School Chemistry category. Leo, who is 13, thinks that it would be a good idea to recycle cooking oil, just as people now recycle paper and plastic. Pang used three agents — baking soda, salt and sugar — in his science project.

“I was trying to find the easiest way using household materials to recover oil mixed with water,” Leo told Daniel.

Pang is one of about 150 students who competed in the Region V Science Fair. The other local students who will also move on to the state competition are:

Elementary School: Noah Davis, Lewisville Elementary, first place.

Middle School: Julia Fowler, Kernersville Middle, biological B, first place; Noah Couch, Hanes Magnet, earth/environmental, second place; April Chavez-Espinoza, Southeast Middle, physical, second place; Myers Harbinson, Hanes Magnet, technology/engineering, first place.

High School: Eric Baril, Paisley IB Magnet, biological group A, second place; Kendall Dawkins, Atkins Academic & Technology High, technology/engineering, first place.

The competition was held at Forsyth Technical Community College’s West Campus. Elementary, middle and high school students participated in the science fair, including those attending home, charter and private schools. Region V covers 13 counties, including Forsyth, Alamance, Chatham, Forsyth, Davidson, Guilford and Rockingham.

The N.C. Science and Engineering Fair will be held March 15 and 16 in Raleigh. State winners will advance to the international fair in Arizona. For the complete story go to: Winston-Salem Journal
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