GA Students Earn Seven First Place Awards at PJAS State Fair
On Monday May 21, 2018, seven Upper School science research students competed at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Sciences (PJAS) State Fair at Penn State University. Of those seven students, six earned first place awards.
| CATEGORY AWARD | NAME | GRADE | AWARD DETAILS | PROJECT NAME |
| 1st Place | Kevin Cui | 9th | 1st Place | Epicuticular Waxes of Aquatic Plants Analyses |
| 1st Place | Anthony Hu | 10th | 1st Place | Using Data Mining to Analyze the Evolution of English |
| 1st Place | Matt Sandifer | 10th | 1st Place | A Planarian Model of the Effects of E-Cigarettes |
| 1st Place | Marius Vava | 10 | 1st Place | Human Motion Analysis Using Reality Virtualization |
| 1st Place | Tiffany Zhong | 10 | 1st Place | Harvesting Fog using Kirigami Structures |
| 1st Place | Jason Chee | 11 | 1st Place | Numerical Integration with Monte Carlo and Riemann Sum using SAS |
| 2nd Place | Satyam Ghodasara | 11 | 2nd Place | Finding a New Antimicrobial |
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