Hundreds of young scientists, parents, friends, educators and others converged on the Shoreline Community College campus Saturday, May 9, for the third annual Shoreline STEM Festival.
“It was just so inspiring, so much energy,” Shoreline President Cheryl Roberts said after her remarks at the awards ceremony.
Roberts also thanked Shoreline resident Ray Koelling, who initiated the festival three year ago and the committee of community members who came together to make the festival happen. Although the college, Shoreline School District and other sponsors support the festival, it is truly a community-based effort.
The event included exhibits of STEM projects in two groups, preschool-third grade and then fourth to 12th-grade projects. At the awards ceremony, Gayna Williams of “If She Can, I Can,” was the featured speaker.
Receiving awards at the festival were:
Peschool-third grade
- Lydia Chin
- Finley Houck
- Lily Wright
- Marika Maynarsky
Fourth- through 12th-grade
- Cameron Furman
- Tyler Lefaucher and McKinnon Bonar
- Cameron Anderson and Zach Bartsch
- Zoe Kelton
Most Participants
- Brookside Elementary
- Lake Forest Park Elementary
In addition to a science fair, there were hands-on science activities and demonstrations. There was also be a career expo with exhibitors showcasing exciting career opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Exhibitors included:
- Shorewood Robotics Club demonstrations
- Reptile Man
- DigiPen Institute of Technology
- RobotU
- Insect Safari
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Puget Sound Energy
- Cloverpark Technical College HIstology
- Issaquah FISH
- Shoreline CC Biotech program
- Shoreline CC Visual Communications Tech
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- UW Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab
- Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, UW
- UW Center for Game Science
- UW Children For Conservation
- UW Atmospheric Sciences
- Lake Forest Park StreamKeepers
- North City Water District
- Bioquest at SBRI
- Women in Chemical Sciences at UW
- Earth and Space Research
- Orca Network
- Shoreline Solar project
- UW Material Advantage
- Washington Butterfly Association
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)