Five Beaufort County students win top honors in science fair

Five Beaufort County students beat out nearly 400 others Monday night competing for honors at the 2016 Sea Island Regional Science Fair.

The Beaufort County School District’s Grand Award winners for best-in-show projects were:

• Victoria Hamlin of Hilton Head Island High School – Design of a Sounding Rocket for Maximum Altitude.
• Ashley Hamlin of Hilton Head High – Writing a Mathematical Model for Bubble Formation.
• Decker Paulmeier and Drew Lee of Bluffton High School – Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Stealth Aircraft Methodologies.
• Maile Paulmeier of H.E. McCracken Middle School – Comparative Strength Analysis of an Artificial Monofilament Passive Fiber Skeletal Muscle vs. a Linear Actuator.

Grand Award winners at the high school level will travel to Phoenix, Az., in May for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where more than $4 million in prize awards is expected to draw about 1,700 student competitors from 75 countries.

A list of winning students and projects can be found at http://tinyurl.com/SIRSF2016.

This story was originally published March 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM with the headline "Five Beaufort County students win top honors in science fair."