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Spotlight on STEM at Chantilly fair

Elizabeth A. Elliott | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

Ben Pezzullo, an eighth-grader at St. Timothy School in Chantilly, speaks with a judge at the STEM Fair at St. Timothy School in Chantilly April 11. Pezzullo designed a wind-powered cell phone charger. COURTESY

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Myles Carley, an eighth-grader at St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School in Woodbridge, speaks with a judge at the STEM Fair at St. Timothy School in Chantilly April 11. Carley looked at the effect of familiarity with an environment on memory when testing the location updating effect. COURTESY

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A STEM fair was held at St. Timothy School in Chantilly April
11. Students from BlessedSacrament
School of Alexandria, St. Timothy’s and St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School in
Woodbridge, participated in the event.

First-place winners include:

Chemistry: Heather Schofield, Blessed Sacrament School,
Alexandria

Engineering: Kyla O’Byrne, St. Timothy School, Chantilly

Computer Science and Robotics: a three-way tie between
Robert Huerter and William Keller, Blessed Sacrament School, Alexandria, and
Madeline Williams, St. Timothy School, Chantilly

Earth and Environmental Science: Madeline Wojciak, Blessed
Sacrament School, Alexandria

Life Science — Behavior: Myles Carley, St. Thomas Aquinas
Regional School, Woodbridge

Health and Medicine: Isabella Almodovar, St. Timothy School,
Chantilly

Physics: Hannah Ketner, St. Timothy, Chantilly 

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