Two students from FCPS receive Best of Fair honors in 2021

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Two students from Fayette County Public Schools received Best of Fair honors in the 2021 Kentucky Science & Engineering Fair.

Kiera Fehr of Henry Clay High School (“Rewriting the Industry”) and Karthika Hariprasad of Jessie Clark Middle School (“Environment Friendly Disposable Gloves”) each placed third in Physical Science in their respective age divisions.

Eastern Kentucky University organized this virtually to meet the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. There were at least 300 competitors who registered and presented their work.

The awards ceremony was live-streamed March 28. Following are more top results.

High school division (all from Paul Laurence Dunbar unless noted)

Animal sciences: 1^st place to McKenna Sun

Behavioral & social sciences: 3^rd to Wenbo Fan

Biomedical & Health Sciences: 2^nd to Khushi Arora

Cellular & Molecular Biology: 2^nd to JoonWoo Park

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics: 2^nd to Dallas Rager

Earth & Environmental Science: 3^rd to Angela Wang

Environmental Engineering: 1^st place to Kiera Fehr of Henry Clay

Materials Science: 1^st place to Alan Liao

Mathematics: 2^nd to Thomas Ehrenborg of Henry Clay