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Shorecrest Students Receive Awards at BioExpo

High school students from around the Puget Sound area entered projects at the Student BioExpo

Shorecrest High School students won several awards in the 12th annual Student BioExpo in Bellevue on May 24.

High school students from around the Puget Sound area entered projects at the Student BioExpo, the culminating event of an innovative yearlong science education outreach program. The Expo engages over 350 area high school students from 25 schools in real-world applications of new frontiers in biology and builds connections between students, teachers, and scientists.

Students develop projects with the assistance of a mentor scientist over the course of the school year in categories as diverse as art, music, drama, writing, and traditional scientific research. By applying their own talents to their projects, students are motivated to see the connection between science and their own lives and interests.

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The students researched a molecular level biotechnological subject and represented it through a creative project. They were judged on their ability to communicate the science concepts in understandable, clear style through interviews, research papers, and their projects. The event is sponsored by the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research, www.nwabr.org

These students in Lisa Chen and David Svrcek's Shorecrest Honors Biology classes received awards:

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Sophie Knudson, "Wrinkles of Memories: Alzheimer's Disease," first place, Multimedia.

Watch her winning presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxvVsjHVUU

Willa Lerner, "Pharmacogenomics: Medicine For The Future," first place, Career and Industry.

Remy Dang: "HIV/AIDS: America and Kenya," second place, SeaVuria. The SEAVURIA project pairs students from Vuria, in rural Kenya with Seattle-area students and mentoring scientists. International teams of students develop collaborative global health research projects. For more information: http://seavuria.org/

Zach Hartje, Celiac Disease, Inspirational Award for Multimedia.

Emily Strathy, "The Inconvenient Re-route," Inspirational Award for Creative Writing

Jane White, "Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria," Honorable Mention for Art.


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