Nine Manhattan High students will advance on after placing at the Wamego Science and Engineering Fair March 11-12. Participants included kindergarten through high school grade levels. 

Seniors Ava Chae, Eszter Chikan, Sam DeLong, Tanner McIntosh, Ben Mosier, Ashi Wickramasundara and Carly Yi, junior Rohan Singh and freshman Dabin Chae will advance to the State science fair on Friday.

The event was hosted at Wamego Middle school in the science wing. Each student presented their projects to be judged by three judges. The participants gave a three to five minute brief overview of their projects on poster board in front of the judges, who then asked questions.

“First we wrote our big research paper…then we condensed [the information] to put on a board to make it explainable,” McIntosh said.

Each participant registered for a different field in order to compete against similar presentation topics related to their project. First an overview of the background information is presented to the judges, then the early hypothesis, data, and results. Winners received a champion ribbon, a small trophy and a certificate along with judges’ comments.

DeLong, State qualifier, competed under the field Humanities and Social Sciences.

“My presentation was on legislative repeals and how voters view them,” Delong said.

In addition to the state competition, the seniors who placed were invited to join the Kansas State University Undergraduate Showcase in April.