On Thursday, February 17th, Menlo-Atherton High School hosted its sixth annual STEM fair in the Maker Space. This year’s event returned in person after last year’s fair was on Zoom. Students worked for months on projects spanning a variety of different topics within the realm of STEM —science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Ultimately, eight projects were presented to a board of judges.
Junior Ron Freeman won first place with his project on testing water quality using metamaterial microwave resonators. Freeman has been doing science fairs since he was in seventh grade. He said: “One of the things that made the preparation a lot easier is the fact that M-A has a lot of resources available for people doing science fair projects like all the science teachers, Dr. Richards, and the Maker Space.”
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