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Qualifying high school students from East Baton Rouge Parish and all neighboring parishes competed at the 2022 Louisiana Region VII Science & Engineering Fair on February 16th at the LSU Student Union. All First and Second Place students for each category will advance to the Louisiana State Science & Engineering Fair, competing against students from across the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana State Science & Engineering Fair will be held March 21-23 at the LSU Student Union.

Overall Winners: 

• 1st place -Margaret Moe, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 2nd place - Isabelle Gruner, St. Joseph's Academy
• Overall school - St. Joseph's Academy

ISEF Nominees:

• Isabelle Gruner, St. Joseph’s Academy
• Camille Kleinpeter, St. Joseph's Academy
• Margaret Moe, St. Joseph's Academy

American Meteorological Society Award Winner:

• Ava Achberger, St. Joseph's Academy

American Psychological Association Award Winner:

• Emma Neyland, St. Joseph's Academy

ASM Materials Education Foundation Award Winner:

• Keanna Luo and Alexander Wu, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Association for Women Geoscientists Award Winner:

• Valerie Ard, St. Joseph's Academy

Mu Alpha Theta Award Winner:

• Abigail Kukura, St. Joseph's Academy

NASA Earth System Science Award Winner:

• Isabelle Gruner, St. Joseph's Academy

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Award Winner:

• Caitlyn Rogers, St. Joseph Academy

Naval Science Award Winners:

• Isabelle Gruner, St. Joseph's Academy
• Camille Kleinpeter, St. Joseph's Academy
• Margaret Moe, St. Joseph's Academy

Ricoh USA, INC. Award Winner:

• Caitlyn Rogers, St. Joseph's Academy

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Award Winner:

• Ethan Guo and Alexander Wei, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

U.S. Air Force Award Winner:

• Margaret Moe, St. Joseph's Academy

U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Award Winner:

• Ava Achberger, St. Joseph's Academy

Yale Science and Engineering Association Award Winner:

• Margaret Moe, St. Joseph's Academy

Category Winners:

Animal Sciences

• 1st: Keya Chanda-Rastogi, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 2nd: Thelma Toussant, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Sophie Lavigne, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Avery Bruce, St. Joseph's Academy

Biochemistry

• 1st: Corrine Claire Ellis, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Rebecca Stanford, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 3rd: Grace Dube, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Aiswarya Nair, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Behavioral and Social Sciences

• 1st: Emma Neyland, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Holly Phan, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 3rd: Morgan Moore, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Elizabeth Monsour, St. Joseph's Academy

Biomedical Engineering

• 1st: Margaret Moe, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 2nd: Nada Elseifi, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Biomedical and Health Sciences

• 1st: Arya Patel, Episcopal School of Baton Rouge
• 2nd: Ahan Zaman, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 3rd: Hannah Vaughan, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Avery Fautheree, St. Joseph's Academy

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

• 1st: Camille Kleinpeter, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Orna Mukhopadhyay, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 3rd: Cecile Taylor, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Michael Shi, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Cellular and Molecular Biology

• 1st: Kalina Namikas, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 1st: Hadley Ewen, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Emma Dalton, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 3rd: Anna Claire Scott, St. Joseph's Academy

Chemistry

• 1st: Molly Ritter, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 2nd: Bella Broussard, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 3rd: Maven Skillman, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Thuy Bui, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Earth and Environmental Sciences

• 1st: Ava Riley Achberger, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Carly Balsam, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Elizabeth Kessler, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Fuller Stevens, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Embedded Systems

• 1st: Alexander Wei and Ethan Guo, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 2nd: Virginia Bowen, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Catherine Hardouin, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Gavin O, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Energy: Sustainable Materials & Design

• 1st: Vamsi Marrapu, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 2nd: Gabriela Journee, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Maria Sereda, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Rohan Joshi, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Environmental Engineering

• 1st: Caitlyn Rogers, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Sophia "Shobe" Manuel, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: David Shen, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Emily Chen, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Engineering Mechanics

• 1st: Isabella Clardy, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Eugene Jiang, Episcopal School of Baton Rouge
• 3rd: Sameen Enam, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Eric Wang, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Mathematics

• 1st: Abigail Kukura, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Heepeom Shin, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Microbiology

• 1st: Alexandra Hulse, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 2nd: Valerie Ard, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Abraham Dickson, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Davey Mangila, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Materials Science

• 1st: Alexander Wu and Keanna Luo, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 2nd: Josephine Day, Iberville Math Science and Arts Academy East
• 3rd: Eliska McMillen, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Ava Kathryn Nesbit, St. Joseph's Academy

Physics and Astronomy

• 1st: Isabelle Gruner, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Camille Curry, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Katherine Harris, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Plant Sciences

• 1st: Susanne Robinson, St. Joseph’s Academy
• 2nd: Madelyn Wilson, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Amelia Gilcrease, St. Joseph's Academy
• 4th: Dhairya Viramgama, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

• 1st: Bret Harvey, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 2nd: Benjamin Namikas, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Systems Software

• 1st: Catherine Burkhalter, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Benedict Michel, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 3rd: Tejasvi Tyagi, Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Translational Medical Science

• 1st: Vincenza Vendetto and Ella Benjamin, St. Joseph's Academy
• 2nd: Ashlyn Lee, St. Joseph's Academy
• 3rd: Neha Mothilal, Baton Rouge Magnet High School
• 4th: Aanvi Desai, Baton Rouge Magnet High School