Five young scientists in Sartell will compete at the state level after being honored at the recent Central Minnesota Regional Science Fair at St. Cloud State University.
Fifteen Sartell-St. Stephen students in grades 7-9 participated in the SCSU Science Fair. The state science fair will take place March 20-22 in Bloomington.
The five award winners (two teams and one solo participant) and their science projects are: Gillian Orth and Cindy Zhang (Does Fear Change With Age?); Janagan Ramanathan and Carter Schumacher (Aerodynamics: The Effect of Blade Angle on Turbine Voltage Output); and Elizabeth Ruder (Solar Power Water Desalination). Ruder was also honored with the Association of Women Geoscientists Award.
The other participants at the fair were the following teams: Lydia Anderson and Jaden Nguyen; Mallory Daniels and Ella Krauel; Jack Hackenmueller, Benjamin Kiewel and Jacob Miller; and Elijah Lawson and Bennett Hill.

Sartell-St. Stephen student participants at the Central Minnesota Science Fair at St. Cloud State University are (front row, left to right) teammates Lydia Anderson and Jaden Nguyen, teammates Janagan Ramanathan and Carter Schumacher, and teammates Ella Krauel and Mallory Daniels. Those are all seventh-graders. In the back row are solo participant ninth-grader Madeline Thieschafer; solo participant eighth-grader Elizabeth Ruder; eighth-grade teammates Gillian Orth and Cindy Zhang; eighth-grade teammates Jack Hackenmueller, Benjamin Kiewel (not pictured) and Jacob Miller; and eighth-grade teammates Elijah Lawson (not pictured) and Bennett Hill.