Grafton High students honored for successes in science, DECA, music

Grafton High School students recently participated in the school’s science fair, the state-wide DECA competition and the All-State Music Festival.

Science Fair

• 1st PLACE – ENGINEERING: Sensors for Safety (ENGINEERING)— Justin Trinh, Luciano Galvani, and Joshua Rodrique
• 1st PLACE – EXPERIMENT: Killing the Killer Caterpillars (EXPERIMENT) — Maya Purohit, Allyanna Lewis, and Catherine Roseen
• 2nd PLACE:Generating Energy From Only Temperature Differences In The Environment (ENGINEERING) — Justin Yip
• 3rd PLACE:Separating Oil from Water (ENGINEERING) — Raheel Sarwar

ALL PARTICIPANTS

• Can the Foam in NFL Helmets be Improved? (EXPERIMENT)-Srijith Gomattam and Arnav Kapoor
• Generating Energy From Only Temperature Differences In The Environment (ENGINEERING) – Justin Yip
• Killing the Killer Caterpillars (EXPERIMENT)-Maya Purohit, Allyanna Lewis, and Catherine Roseen
• Lighting Our World: Exploring Luciferin-Oxygen Reactions using Dinoflagellates (EXPERIMENT)-Amruth Seetharaman 
• Magnetized Planting  (EXPERIMENT) — Gouri Sudi
• Modeling the onset of Alzheimer’s using β-amyloid toxicity in C. elegans (EXPERIMENT) — Chaitanya Krishna Tej (Krish) Suraparaju
• Predicting Nicotine Addiction Using A.I. (EXPERIMENT)-Vaishnavi Chebrolu and Esha Batchu
• Preventing the Negative Effects of Flooding (ENGINEERING)-Aanika Mishra 
• Saving Cape Cod Beaches (ENGINEERING)-Emily Anderson, Helen Barber, Cora Descheneaux
• Sensors for Safety (ENGINEERING)-Justin Trinh, Luciano Galvani, and Joshua Rodrique
• Separating Oil from Water (ENGINEERING)-Raheel Sarwar
• Sound on? Sound off? (EXPERIMENT)-Alex Ford

DECA

Grafton High students competed in the State-Wide DECA Program in Boston. Last month, 28 GHS DECA students participated in a state-wide competition they had to qualify for, and several students were recognized for their achievements.  

Kaushal Kasina and Sri Gomattam finished third in their first marketing role play, Amruth Seetharaman and Esha Batchu finished in the Top 10 in Financial Literacy Project, Tyler Concaugh finished in the Top 10 in Career Development Project, our Quiz Bowl Team of Christian Le, Jake McCue, Arnav Kapoor, and Vedant Naik was the first GHS Quiz Bowl team to advance to the third round after defeating Taunton and Westford Academy and Aayush Patel finished fifth overall in Business Solutions Project to qualify to compete at the International Conference in Nashville next month.  Thank you to Mr. Maxell for his efforts in working with these students.

Music All-State Festival

Ashley Kim,Andrew Kim,Madigan Linnane, and Sami Sandakly represented Grafton High in the All-State Music Festival in Boston last week.