Celebrating Science Achievements!

Hauppauge Middle School is pleased to announce the winners of the Middle School Science Fair. The first and second place 6th grade winners will participate in the Brookhaven National Lab Elementary Science Fair on May 6, 2017, at BNL in Upton. Winners from grades 7 and 8 will participate in the Long Island Science Congress on April 4-5, 2017, at St. Anthony’s High School in Huntington Station. Some 6th–8th grade students will be eligible to participate in the Society for Science and the Public –Long Island Science and Engineering Broadcom MASTERS National Middle School Science Fair on March 23, 2017, at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.

HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS

6th Grade

●1st Navya Gautam – Does Shape Matter?

●2nd Luke Jata – Recycling Greywater

●3rd Grant Faber – Blonde, Brunette, Red

●Honorable Mention Gagan Charagondola – Strong Bridges

●Honorable Mention Matthew Masaitis – Wind Turbine Efficiency

7th Grade

●1st Abhiram Marisetti – The Power of Nano

●2nd Nicholas Barshay – Deter-Ant: What substance Will Keep Ants Away?

●3rd Anish Shenoy – Should You Go Nuts for Nuts?

●Honorable Mention Marcus Ballerini – Trees as Historians of Climate Change

●Honorable Mention Benjamin Moks – Cold or Comfy

8th Grade

●1st Jalaj Mehta – Developing an Inexpensive Filter to Remove Microbeads from Water

●2nd Alexander Rodriguez – Roller Coaster Marbles

●3rd Shawna Auleta – The Grape Mistake

●Honorable Mention Pritham Katla – Getting the Soap Out

●Honorable Mention Megan Mitola – Light Pollution

“Congratulations to all of the Middle School Science Fair winners,” said Robert Wankmuller, Hauppauge School District’s director of Science, Technology and Research. “We are very proud of all of the students who participated in this year’s competition.”