Ballard High School's Biotechnology Academy: Student BioExpo 2017!

Biotechnology Genetics Presented Their Capstone Projects at Shoreline Community College.

On Friday, May 19, Biotechnology Genetics students presented their capstone projects at the 17^th annual Student BioExpo at Shoreline Community College. They did an excellent job presenting their work and received several accolades from the judges. The BioExpo is a science fair where students can enter in several different categories ranging from Drama/Dance and Lab Research to Creative Writing and Molecular Modeling. All projects are judged for their scientific content and for creativity in each category. Twenty schools from the state of Washington participated.

All of the students represented Ballard with poise and grace. Our students exceled in several categories. The following students received special recognition.

Creative Writing: Honorable Mention- Sophie Zucker for “To Bleed or Not to Bleed”

Journalistic Writing: Honorable Mention-Tavish Hansen for “Tourette Syndrome: Living the Life Chosen by Your Genes. 2^nd Place-Sophie Adams for “Keeping the Body Intact: Marfan Syndrome”

Multi-Media: Honorable Mention-Hannah McNamara, Kale Zweig, and Kailana Wang for “The Story of Breast Cancer”

Music: 3^rd Place-Mercedes George for SCA 2-(Spinocerebellar ataxia 2); 2^nd Place-Veronica Redpath and Noah Parker for “Amalgamation of Mutations”

Teaching: 1^st Place-Paige Campbell for “Teaching Alzheimer’s Disease”

SeaVuria: A unique category where students are matched with students in Kenya in order to educate about a global health issue. 3^rd Place-Sammy Blue, Liat Carlyle, Julia Jackson, and Audrey McFarland for “HIV: A Global Fight”; 2^nd Place-Caitlin Moore and Lia Freeman for “ Tuberculosis: The Invisible Killer”; 1^st Place-Sam Wilk, Sophia Alvord, and Lauren Farrar for “Malaria: The Bite That Does More Than Itch”