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2025 MWV YOUTH STEM EXPO WINNERS
Elementary School
1st place: Nelly Lamneck (4th grade, MIS), “Does a Broken Reed Change the Pitch?”
2nd place: Hazel Dufilho (5th grade, JGS), “Sourest Candy”
3rd place: Vivian Klein (5th grade, JGS), “Rise of the Cookies”
Middle School
1st place: Addy Jaus (7th grade, JBES), “Trashing Soil Pollution”
2nd place: Skyler Boris and Emmett O’Brian (7th grade, JBES),
“Comparing Different Bounce Heights on Different Surfaces”
3rd place: Levi Roberts and Brighton Oliver (6th grade, JBES), “Powerful Paper”
High School
1st place: Ayten Soylemez (11th grade, Fryeburg Academy),
“Language of Movement”
2nd place: Tomona Arai (10th grade, Fryeburg Academy),
“Effect of Transporter Mutation and Potassium on Radiocesium Distribution
in Arabidopsis Thaliana from the Fukushima Nuclear Explosion Accident”
3rd place: Nia Lajoie (10th grade, KHS),
“The Effects of Nicotine Products on the Gut Microbiome”
Mount Washington Observatory Emerging Scientist Awards
Max Morrow (6th grade, JGS), “Bolts and Wire”
Emily Fields (9th-grade, KHS), “Hot Topic: The Greenhouse Effect”
White Mountains Connected Learning
Ecosystem Climate Exploration Award:
Nora Williams (6th grade, KMS), “How Does Climate Change Affect Seashells?”
STUDENT PROJECTS
The local environment was on many students’ minds, and two groups took a deeper
dive into environmental issues. Ninth-grader Katie Laracy, from Fryeburg Academy, asked the question, “Clean Energy, How Easy Can It Be?” and Josiah Bartlett
Elementary School 8th-graders, Alda Du昀椀lho and Helen Glazer, studied the quality
of local drinking water with their project, “Drink Up: Assessing our Daily Drinking
Water Sources.”
ALDA DUFILHO AND HELEN GLAZER
“Drink Up: Assessing our Daily Drinking Water Sources”
Water is important because it brings nutrients
to our cells, protects
joints and organs, and
helps maintain good
body temperature.
Water keeps us happy,
healthy, and hydrated.
But what if the water
we’re drinking isn’t
good for us? We decided to find out.
Last year we did a
project on screen time
Photos by DiVision Media
in kids versus adults,
which is something that impacted our middle school community. This year we
also wanted to do a project that would have an influence on our local community,
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