Each year, all IPA students in grades 6-8 participate in our school’s Science Fair. At IPA’s fair, students are interviewed and projects viewed by volunteer judges; the projects that do well at IPA move on to the District Fair held by the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools (HAIS). More interviews and judging winnow this tier down and the very best are sent on to the statewide competition.
On March 22-24, one dozen IPA secondary students (IPA also had a grade 9 project) competed in the 58th Hawai’i State Science & Engineering Fair at the Hawai’i Convention Center. A wide range of engineering and science disciplines were represented by the nearly 400 different projects. IPA’s students did well in their interviews and several of their projects won awards.
Here is a list of the participants and the awards they received:
6th Grade
Ian Kam
$$ Monetary Award, Certificate from Entomology Society
7th Grade
Devyn Manuel & Gabrielle Lum
Mina Cintron
James Bradley & Melody Witten-Watthanasook
8th Grade
Anne Uesugi
$25 American Chemical Society
$50 American Public Works Association
Broadcom Masters Award & Nomination
2nd Place Junior Research Chemistry Category
Natalie Welch
$100 Best in Engineering Award from Chevron
$100 College of Engineering UH Manoa
Certificate from Society of American Military Engineers
Broadcom Masters Award & Nomination
1st Place Junior Research Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical Category
1st Place Grand Prize Junior Research (top JR project at HSSEF)
Haley Nakamura
3rd Place Junior Research Energy & Transportation Category
Rylyne Bravo
9th Grade
Elise Pangelinan & Alyssa Okimoto
$100 agency award
2nd Place Senior Research Behavioral & Social Sciences Category
In addition to the awards, our students were interviewed multiple times and the fair will be featured on a OC16 Think Tech program about the HSSEF.
