A total of 111 public and private school students from kindergarten to Grade 12 from Saipan, Tinian, and Rota competed in the state level CNMI Public School System Islandwide STEM Fair last March 11 at ChaCha Oceanview Middle School in Kagman, with several of the students advancing to the regional level of the competition.<\/p>\n
The top student winners from the general STEM and high school research categories will have an opportunity to compete in Guam\u2019s Islandwide Science Fair, Thermo Fisher Scientific-Junior Innovative Challenge, and International Science and Engineering Fair.<\/p>\n
The winners of respective competition categories are:\u00a0<\/p>\n
For High School Research International Science and Engineering Fair, in first place was Yelin Hetina Park of Saipan International School with her research project called \u201cDetecting Coral Bleaching in CNMI: Via Machine Learning and Deep Learning.\u201d Second place is Mount Carmel School\u2019s Eunkyu Hong, Ethan Militante, and Paul Santos\u2019 research on \u201cPollution is not Equal To Solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marianas High School\u2019s team of Precious Valerie, Steffanie Nicole Hann, and Angel May was third place with theire \u201cPaper de Musa\u201d.<\/p>\n
For 9-12 general STEM, first place winner was Linxi Cai with her research work titled \u201cFinding the Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions on Saipan\u2019s Costal Environments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Second place winner was Marianas High School\u2019s Camille Alannah Sablan\u2019s research about \u201cKills 99.9% of Bacteria ?!\u201d Another MHS student, Gwanpil Son, won third place with his \u201cAnalyzing Muscle Activity\u201d research work.<\/p>\n
In the Grades 6-8 general STEM category, the winners are Alexis Salundaguit of Hopwood Middle School with his research work \u201cOrally or Injected.\u201d\u00a0Second place winner was Chacha Ocean View Middle School\u2019s Vicente Jesus Leon Guerrero\u2019s \u201cThe Power of Wind \u2018\u2019 and third place winner was Brilliant Star Montessori\u2019s Selina Santiago with her research work on \u201cCleaning Dirty Water.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winners of the Grades 3-5 general STEM category were all from public schools: first place was Tinian Elementary School\u2019s Braiden Tutor\u2019s \u201cCreating Biogas From Your Pantry\u201d; second place was\u00a0\u00a0Sinapalo Elementary School\u2019s Javier Sahagon\u2019s \u201cHydroponics: Growing without Soil\u201d; and third place was San Vicente Elementary School\u2019s Dre Cabrera with his \u201cIRONic Breakfast\u201d research.<\/p>\n
The kindergarten to Grade 2 general STEM category winners were: Sinapalo Elementary School\u2019s Aven Ihu King\u2019s \u201cSTRONG SHAPES.\u201d Second place winner\u00a0was Northern Marianas International School\u2019s Ayumi Palacios with her work, \u201cWhat type of food allows mold to grow the fastest?\u201d, and third place was Koblerville Elementary School\u2019s Autumn Basa\u2019s \u201cCarbon Sugar Snake.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Grades 2-5 paper airplane competition, Huaen Chen of Agape Christian School, Dilen Quitugua of Kagman Elementary School, and Logan Daniel of Koblerville are the first, second and third placers, respectively.<\/p>\n
The MINA STEM Environmental Award overall winners for respective categories (grade level) are: (K-2) Garapan Elementary School\u2019s Joaquin Kevo Leomo\u2019s \u201cFree Power from Water\u201d; (3-5) Tinian Elementary School\u2019s Braiden Rutor\u2019s \u201cCreating Biogas from Your Pantry\u201d; (6-8) Francisco M. Sablan\u2019 Middle School\u2019s Jude Burgos\u2019 \u201cFAIR TOWER: The Incineration Plant\u201d; (9-12) Mount Carmel School\u2019s Jude Burgos\u2019 \u201cFlame-Y Manure\u201d, and for High School Research categories, there were two winners: Saipan International School\u2019s Yelin Hestina Park\u2019s \u201cDetecting Coral Bleaching in CNMI: via Machine Learning and Deep Learning\u201d, and Marianas High School\u2019s team of Precious Valerie, Steffanie Nicole Hann and Angel May\u2019s \u201cPaper de Musa.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe CNMI Public School System Islandwide STEM Fair would like to congratulate all school level winners for advancing to the state level competition,\u201d said the IWSF committee, which also gave thanks to all the supporting parents, teachers, and administrators \u201cfor guiding our students\u2019 interests,\u201d learning and demonstration of science and engineering research projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of the IWSF committee, we would like to share our sincere appreciation to the volunteer judges, Kagman High School JROTC, CNMI PSS AmeriCorps, Saipan Southern High School National Honor Society, Triple J Catering, Marianas Islands Nature Alliance, and ChaCha Oceanview Middle School staff for their contributions toward a successful event,\u201d said the IWSF committee.<\/p>\n
The committee also thanked Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada, Board of Education teacher representative Dr. Dora Miura, OCI-senior director Jackie Quitugua, ARE-senior director Dr. Rizalina Liwag, CTE director Dr. Jessica Taylor, interim federal programs officer Jacqueline Che, Facilities Development Management Office, and State Infrastructure Technology Office. (PR\/Saipan Tribune)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A total of 111 public and private school students from kindergarten to Grade 12 from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":387652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}