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: 1st place to McKenna Sun

Behavioral & social sciences: 3rd to Wenbo Fan

Biomedical & Health Sciences: 2nd to Khushi Arora

Cellular & Molecular Biology: 2nd to JoonWoo Park

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics: 2nd to Dallas Rager

Earth & Environmental Science: 3rd to Angela Wang

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

Materials Science: 1st place to Alan Liao

Mathematics: 2nd to Thomas Ehrenborg of Henry Clay

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