Students do well at school, county, science fairs
Columbia Falls students did well at recent science fairs, both at the school and county levels. Top placers included:
Grand champions at Glacier Gateway School Elementary
Airebella Hylton-Lewis: A Sea of Colors-The Wonders of the Seahorse
Kale Schaeffer: Hydroelectricity
Evelynne Dorr: Is there a Cheaper Way to Heat Your Livestock Tank?
Kensington Sundberg: How Does the Human Eye Work?
Aubrey Smith: Fun with Frequencies
Merell Cooley: Sloths on Sleds
Elaina Dorr: How Healthy is Your Soil?
Morgan Flickinger: Little Soda Molar Problem
Grand Champions Columbia Falls Junior High
Boone Shanks: A Study in Visual Perception
Reserve champions at Gateway
Dylan Owens: Biggest Bubble Experiment
Evelyn Freiheit: Inside the Human Body
Payton Keibler: Temperature and Crystals
Findley Dezzani: Apples vs. Oranges
Oscar Metallo: How much Vitamin C?
Reserve champions at Ruder
Kajsa Mohr: Magnetic Temperature
Teagan Bates: Effects of Acid Rain
Gateway first-place
Lily Gnauck: Soma Fun with Nerves
Ella Robbins: Building the Tallest Tower
Kaelyn Saenz: How Silly is Your Putty?
Caden Zanett: Maglev Train
Ailish Hanley: Does Shoe Size Matter with Height?
Trevin Jensen: Frog vs. Toad
Carrick Roma: The Awesome Chemical vs. Physical Experiment
Landon Culver: Venom Rocket 2.0
Teigan LaTray: Fire Behavior
Tucker Leever: Electricity
Hailey Littlefield How to Blow Up a Balloon with Carbon Dioxide
Nieve Schule: Incredible Ink
Kira Shanks: Instrumental vs. Lyrics
Fiona Bryant: Green House Gas
Quinn Morsett: Staying Warm This Winter
Isaac Scott: Protect Your Melon
Junior High first
Payton Owens: What Melts Ice Fastest?
County grand
champions
Gateway
Kira Shanks
Findley Dezzani
Oscar Metallo
Ella Robbins
Evelynne Dorr
Kale Schaeffer
Teigan LaTray
Junior High
Boone Shanks
County reserve Gateway
Aubrey Smith
Merell Cooley
Trevin Jensen
Hailey Littlefield
Kensington Sundberg
Junior High
Addy Bowler
Lotus Helland The Magic of Bone Conduction
Best Energy-related Projects (Sponsored by the Electrical Contractors’ Union):
Evelynne Dorr: Is There a Cheaper Way to Heat Your Livestock Tank?
Kale Schaeffer: Hydro-Electricity
High School
Laney Conger: The Effects of a Polystyrene or Microplastic Diet on the Lifespan of Yellow Mealworms, it also won a Big Creek Environmental Science Award, hosted by the Glacier Institute.
Attending regional
science fair in Butte
Kira Shanks
Aubrey Smith
Merell Cooley
Findley Dezzani
Elaina Dorr
Oscar Metallo
Boone Shanks
Addy Bowler
Lotus Helland