American Heritage High School was again the top individual high school in the State Science Fair Competition held in Lakeland, Florida, the week of March 25. There were nearly 900 competitors at both the high school and middle school levels.
Nine Heritage high school students qualified to participate and all nine won category prizes (compared to less than half of all participants). One of the four top grand prizes went to Miguel Paredes, AHS Senior, for the second year in a row. A second place was achieved by Kristina Thoren. Third places were awarded to Rachel Gilfarb, Sameer Kailasa, Harshath Gupta, and Mayori Viswanathan, while Rachel Shapiro, Angelica Gousse, and Zoe Zhou earned fourth places.
In the middle school division, all three of Heritage’s entrants won place awards as well. Nicholas Mirchandani was awarded a fourth place, while Zara Joykutty and Diego Ramos won fifth places.
Miguel Paredes represented Heritage and the State of Florida at the International Science and Engineering Fair which was held in Phoenix, Arizona. He won 2nd place.
