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Congratulations to all of our 2025 County Science Fair Participants and Winners. All first place winners will be competing in the regionals on February 15th. Preston County Schools had 100 projects (link: https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2073/PCS/5212799/2025_PC_Science_Fair_Division_I__II__III_Results.pdf) submitted to the county fair, and will be sending 29 to represent their schools and county at the regional level, with hopes of reaching the state competition. Those projects and students are:

Brody Goff

The Proof in the

Prints

South Preston

1

Payton Grose

Can Peppermints Really Help You on a

Test?

Terra Alta/East

Preston

1

Zadaya Bolyard

Power in Heat Protection

South Preston

1

Seneca Short, Raegan Nieman & Taryn Reynolds

What’s in the

Water?

Bruceton

1

Cross Kisner

Battery Life

Terra Alta/East

Preston

1

Milton Facemire-Urban

Building Up!

Terra Alta/East

Preston

1

Taryn Sullivan

The Best Cush for

Your Tush

Aurora

1

Jaxton Warnick & Paxton

Warnick

Egg-citing Tooth Decay

South Preston

1

Kinsley Dixon

Bottle Rocket Blast Off!

Terra Alta/East

Preston

1

Madilyn Livengood

Seeing Red (How Color Influences Our

Feelings?)

Aurora

1

Kendall Goff

The Secret of the Pop Can!

South Preston

1

Tucker Goff &

Alex Bucklew

Power Up with

Citrus

South Preston

1

Rylan Kowalkoski

Lone Ranger Rotors

Aurora

1

Vada Walsh

Generative AI &

Does it Mirror Real World Data?

Terra

Alta/East Preston

1

Ainsly Feathers

Growing Basil: Fish Emulsion vs Warm

Casts

 

1

Ava Miller & Myla Wotring

Thinking in Color

 

Preston

 

1

 

Nicholas Bernatowicz

Cold Drugs, Hot Cows

 

Preston

 

1

 

Mariah Titchenell

Fluoride Flow: What’s

Flowing in Your Water?

 

Preston

 

1

 

Alyssa Friend

Osmosis in a Gummy

 

Preston

 

1

 

Sophie Zinn

All About That Base

 

Preston

 

1

 

Isabella

Edmunds

The pHacts of How

Elevation Affects Soil pH

 

Preston

 

1

 

Haylie Trenum

Signal Snaggers: Testing Object Interference

 

Preston

 

1

 

Charlee Pettit & Luke Tayman

Sour Power

 

Preston

 

1

 

Garrett

Haymond

Bearing the Weight

 

Preston

 

1

 

Ethan White

Stream pH Exploring

Acidity

 

Preston

 

1

 

Logan Bell

Send It to the Fence

 

Preston

 

1

 

Donald Parks

Effects of Humidity on

Food Decomposition

 

Preston

 

1

 

Madeline

Kincaid

City Lights Stealing Starry

Nights

 

Preston

 

1

 

Riley Mayfield

Magnetisms Effect on

Plant Growth

 

Preston

 

1

 

Congratulations and best of luck to all of these outstanding students.