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EA Students Score High In State Science Academy

Six Episcopal Academy students recently participated The Pennsylvania Juniors Academy of Science.

NEWTOWN SQUARE–The Pennsylvania Juniors Academy of Science (PJAS) and the summer course Introduction to Laboratory of Science help students learn science outside the traditional classroom and achieve honors in science competitions.

(EA) students participatee in several science competitions on the regional, state, and national levels. This year, six students participated in either PJAS, the course, Introduction to Laboratory Science, or both. In these settings, students design and execute their own unique experiment. The analyzed results are then compiled and presented in various formats in the above competitions.

This year, the six EA students achieved success at the PJAS regional level. Shreya Reddy (Audubon), Patricia Tyson (Wayne), and Stacey Sloate (Rosemont) received first place awards. Reddy won further distinction by receiving a perfect score, a rare honor bestowed on a student with an advanced project and flawless presentation before PJAS judges.

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Sloate’s project on the effect of household sanitizers on bacteria and Reddy’s project on crystallization of lysozyme were entered into the national Google science fair competition. Additionally, Chester Thai (Broomall) and Emily Li (Quangying, China) earned second place in PJAS.

Reddy also attended the PJAS state meet at Penn State University and won a first place, perfect score award competing against a thousand Pennsylvania students. She was also recognized in the PJAS Student Talent Search for her outstanding research.

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Tyson entered her project into the National Intel Student Talent Search competition this past January. Her project is now being continued in collaboration with a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. These students worked under the supervision of their advisor, Kelley Bethoney, Ph.D., a member of Episcopal's science department.


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