Results of the experiments were conclusive at last week’s State Science & Technology Fair in the campus of Iowa State University in Ames.

Des Moines Public Schools students are leaders in the laboratory.

In the middle school division, 47 DMPS student-scientists from six schools (Brody, Callanan, Cowles, McCombs, Merrill, and Weeks) qualified, and 29 of them earned at least honorable mention.

Merrill Middle School was awarded the Clay Groff Memorial Traveling Trophy that goes to the most successful school overall at the state science fair.

At the high school level, 48 DMPS students qualified and together they garnered 18 awards and citations. Top honorees including Rabsa Naseer, who earned the Women in Science and Engineering Award; David Turner, whose honors included the Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award; and Victoria Pliler and Madison Stout, who were the top overall finishers in the FFA division.

A complete list of DMPS students earning honors at the State Science & Technology Fair is as follows:

MIDDLE SCHOOL AWARDS

• Adysen Miller (Brody) Clean-tec Award, 2^nd place in 7^th grade and 2^nd overall in Energy and Transportation, Broadcom Master Award
• Kathleen Loder (Merrill) Excellence in Science Award, ISU College of Human Science Expanding Human Potential Scholarship
• Lydia Smith (Merrill) Excellence in Science Award, 2^nd place in 6^th grade Microbiology, Biomedical, & Health Sciences
• Nadia Palmer (Merrill) Excellence in Science Award
• Celia James (Merrill) Excellence in Science Award
• Callie Wicker (Weeks) Excellence in Science Award
• Isabel Naderman and Bianca Schleuger (Brody) American Physiological Award
• Shreeya Yarlagadda (Cowles) Iowa Water Environment Federation Award, 3^rd place in 6^th grade Astronomy, Earth, and Environmental Science
• Ethan Button (Merrill) 1^st Place in 7^th grade Animal Science and honorable mention in the overall division, Broadcom Master Award
• Ian Campbell (Merrill) honorable mention in 6^th grade Astronomy, Earth, and Environmental Science
• Maia Kissell (Merrill) 2^nd place in 6^th grade Astronomy, Earth and Environmental Science
• Temple Landry (Merrill) 1^st place in 7^th grade and 1^st overall in Astronomy, Earth and Environmental Science, Broadcom Master Award, Grand Honorable Mention
• Alec Fialkov (Merrill) 2^nd place in 6^th grade Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Daniel Fialkov (Merrill) 3^rd place in 6^th grade Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Kathleen Loder (Merrill) 1^st place in 6^th grade Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Zadie Hoff (Cowles) honorable mention in Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Addison Lust (Brody) honorable mention in Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Bela Perkins (Cowles) 2^nd place in 6^th grade Chemistry
• Prior Van Heukelom (Merrill) 3^rd place in 7^th grade Chemistry
• Israel Smith (McCombs) honorable mention in 8^th grade Energy and Transportation
• Emily Johansen and Bhilasna Acharya (Weeks) 2^nd place in 6^th grade Engineering, Physics, and Math
• Levi Kimsey (Cowles) 2^nd place in 6^th grade Engineering, Physics, and Math
• Carl Tubbs (Merrill) 1^st place in 7^th grade and 1^st place overall in Engineering, Physics, and Math, Broadcom Master Award, Grand Honorable Mention
• Aayaailah Huff (Weeks) honorable mention in 7^th grade Engineering, Physics, and Math
• Ashton Belknap (Merrill) 2^nd place in 8^th grade Engineering, Physics, and Math, Broadcom Master Award
• Jackson Grant (Merrill) 1^st place in 8^th grade and 2^nd place overall in Engineering, Physics, and Math, Broadcom Master Award
• Jose Bravo (Weeks) honorable mention in 6^th grade Microbiology, Biomedical, & Health Sciences
• Willow Lewis (Weeks) honorable mention in 6^th grade Microbiology, Biomedical, & Health Sciences
• Ziggy Page (Merrill) 3^rd place in 8^th grade Microbiology, Biomedical, & Health Sciences

HIGH SCHOOL AWARDS

• Olivia Proctor and Rhiannan Brown (Hoover High School) American Physiological Society Award
• David Turner (Central Academy, Central Campus) Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award, US Metric Association Award, Yale Science and Engineering Award, and 2^nd place in the Computer Science division.
• Nayely Velazquez (North High School) Climate Science-Non-Linear Systems Certificate of Honorable Mention
• Jose Rodriquez-Campos, Elizabeth Mora Huber and Rebekah Bourland (Hoover High School) Inform Award and honorable mention in Chemistry
• Rabsa Naseer (Central Academy, Central Campus) Women in Science and Engineering Award, UNI Excellence in Biological Science Award, 2^nd Place in the Biomedical and Health Sciences division
• Victoria Pliler and Madison Stout (Central Campus) 1^st place in the FFA Animal Science division and overall winners from FFA division 6.
• Cecilia Hodson (Central Campus) Honorable Mention in Animal Science
• Hao Le (Central Campus) 2^nd place in Animal Science
• Rosy Banda-Rivera (North High School) Honorable Mention in Chemistry
• Ben Stone (Central Academy) 3^rd place in Computer Science
• Nathan Bui and Luke Whitman (Central Academy) Honorable Mention in Computer Science
• Akpobari Godpower (North High School) Honorable Mention in Computer Science
• Esterine Ninkunda and Barinua Godpower (North High School) 2^nd place in Physics and Astronomy, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2018 Finalist-Student Observers