Congratulations to everyone who competed at this week's Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS)! These high school students are doing impressive research projects and did an excellent job communicating their findings to a panel of judges and an audience of their peers. Regional winners receive scholarships and an expense-paid trip to compete at the annual National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.
The 2022 Iowa Regional winners are:
1st place: Amara Orth (Lewis Central High School) - "Secret Sounds of Bees: Analysis of Honey Bee Vibroacoustics Using Hidden Markov Models"
2nd place: Kiersten Knobbe (Adair-Casey Guthrie Center High School) - "Turbid or Not Turbid? That is the Question: Creating a Water Filtration and Sanitation Method for Developing Countries"
3rd place: Alina Markutsya (Ames High School) - "Biomechanical Analysis of Balance Beam Skills in Gymnastics"
4th place: Libby Knipper (Beckman Catholic High School) - "Efficacy of Antimicrobial Starch-Based Plastic Food Storage Films"
5th place: Jasmyn Hoeger (Beckman Catholic High School) - "Novel Mammalian Fibroblast Cell Culture Media Technique for Ultraviolet Cell Reduction"