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Just good So students, I hope you met some really interesting judges That ask you good questions and that you had a good time talking with them and you met lots of students around you To talk with they're doing a research as well And I hope it's been a wonderful day for you So I want to make sure that we also include that we have people that are joining us and streaming Because we also had virtual judging on Wednesday for the people who couldn't come here in person So I want to also welcome all of our virtual students that are joining us with streaming or maybe watching the awards ceremony later if they couldn't connect down right away and And We will be posting a recording on our YouTube channel for this event So you can watch for that in case you want to watch it again So and we are able to do that because of a very special person Jeff Hattley who has assisted us now for two years in doing the videotaping and recording and who has Uploaded it to the YouTube channel so all of our Students and parents and family members and friends and teachers and anybody else you want to invite can see the awards ceremonies Now we did discover that they changed the link on us this morning for the opening ceremony So in case you had people that were trying to connect in for the opening ceremony that link will be up later So watch for that if you would like to watch that again So Jeff Hattley is with the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Again, we would like to thank him So share with other people So students I want to congratulate you again I'm being a regional award winner and coming to the state fair You are one of a very few across the entire state of North Carolina that made it to this level of competition And so for the elementary students we are the pinnacle for your competition and you are to be congratulated This was a awesome task that you have done amazing research And we are so excited to have you here today, and we hope you are as well so we're thankful to be back again this year at our host site at North Carolina State University and to be able to have the Competition and the awards ceremony and the welcoming and right now It's my pleasure to welcome Dr. Gary Kelly. He's our chairman of our North Carolina Science Fair Foundation Board So directors to bring us a few remarks dairy Thank you, Judy. Good afternoon Outstanding outstanding, I'm very honored to be the chair chairman of the board here As the nonprofit spot sponsor of the North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair We are so very proud to be the state affiliate to both the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for our senior division grand winners For the second year the Thermo Fisher scientific junior innovators challenge award For our junior grand award and the Dewey and Susan Rouse Memorial Award for our elementary division on behalf of the board The Science and Engineering Fair planning committee our many judges and volunteers and our devoted regional directors We want to congratulate each and every one of you for being a regional winner and a state finalist And for your initiative in engaging in science and our injury engineering research. Well done We also want to applaud The amazing efforts of our one over 170 judges and over 125 volunteers who were so instrumental in making today happen And I'm gonna do some here Students all of you all did your projects. You all look like a fun group Are you all a fun group? Okay, here's what I would like for you all to do really quickly. I would like for you all to stand This is everyone applauding you for your efforts No, keep standing because I want y'all do something really quick for me because you all are my fun group I want you all to remember you've had teachers You've had your parents you've had your family who have brought you here and have helped support you And I want you all to turn around and give them a great round of applause Excellent. Excellent. You may be seated Before we recognize our award recipients I like to recognize our wonderful sponsors our platinum sponsors the boroughs welcome fund the good night Educational Foundation and the SMT Center the North Carolina Center for North Carolina Science Mathematics and Technology Education Center RTI International DLH Pfizer Broadcom Foundation North Carolina Central College of Health and Sciences the Triangle University's nuclear laboratory Our civil sponsors the strategic educational alliances our bronze sponsors Roe red hat Smith and Sinead architecture Crea therapeutics and Bolton and mink and our NCSE of partners North Carolina State University Meredith College Strawberry Studios and STEM wizard Again, please enjoy join me in expressing our great gratitude to all of our sponsors It is now my pleasure to introduce our emcee for the awards division Dr. Frida Sanders of Cryo therapeutics and a very active Mentor member of our foundation of board of directors Good, let's see what time is it afternoon everyone it is my pleasure to be here I would like to welcome all that are attending both virtually and in person And a sincere thanks to all the parents all the teachers for all your support That's gone into supporting our elementary school students on behalf of the North Carolina science fair foundation We would like to express special appreciation to Judy Day our long-serving Volunteer director of the North Carolina science and engineering fair for her leadership and to all of the regional directors And the hundreds of judges and volunteers who work throughout the year to make this happen So thank you Judy for your 22 years of service And also for those that were at the opening program today She was she received a well-deserved recognition the Judy Benton Day Award for outstanding service will keep Her legacy of service vibrant for years to come So let me also yes Let me also thank Dr. Tom Williams behind me Tom has served with Judy this year as our co-director and he's agreed to serve as the volunteer director effective July 1st Tom has been active with the North Carolina science and engineering fair for the past 16 years. Thank you so much Tom So lots of clapping. Hope your hands are ready All right, so also, please join me in recognizing North Carolina State University for serving as this whole site for the past four years And I just want to say that while certain projects will be recognized today everyone here you are winners in the truest sense of the word for Advancing to the state fair this year So we want to just applaud you for making it past the local and the regional level to get to the state level And please connect with us on our social media channels. You can also encourage your students with any shout outs there as well All right, so the moment we've all been waiting for See this closer to me. We are going to start with our special awards Okay, so I'm gonna announce the special awards We have a first second and third place this way winner and you can come up to my left So you're right and you're gonna exit the stage here and they're good photographs will be taken Oh, and you're gonna have photographs taken. They're gonna be go right into the photograph with dr. Bailey You see dr. Bailey waving his hands. He's a really fun person Photographs will be posted on our website for the parents Okay, if you didn't hear that the photographs that you take directly after receiving your award and exiting the stage They will be Email music will be posted on posted on the website. All right. I Will ask you to just hold your applause until after we get through the first second and third place winners And then we can clap for the entire category of winners All right For NC water we have Third place Tucker Harris second place Hanayah Hussein And First place we have a Shreethi Karthik Camus Congratulations to all of our NC one water winners now for our SMT promising young researcher award We have Jace Gibbs Bryson Kennedy Chigochim in EPA I Congratulations to all of our SMT award winners now for our RTI Turning knowledge into practice award This one goes to Savannah Sprule Congratulations Savannah Now for our association of women in science North Carolina chapter award this one goes to Bailey Cummings Congratulations to our a was winner Now for our Girl Scouts creating a better world Girl Scouts of North Carolina Coastal Pines winner this one goes to Abigail Ross Congratulations now we're getting into our honorable mentions for elementary category. So we have Lincoln Chambers Congratulations Lincoln we're gonna just jump back we have one winner That we didn't get and that is for North Carolina Center for after-school programs and this one goes to a Shreethi Karthik Camus Congratulations to our NC cap winner All right, so back to honorable mentions We have Slocca Godham Beckett Willis Charlie Saunders Kim Lee Bay Barnett Araya saying Anika Prajapati Henry Markwith Sidra Baylock Gunnar Martin Trinity Dalton Charlie Garland Aiden Driscoll Victor Mehta Luke Johnson And Boone Fassnatt Is this Boone he's exemplary So all right, and we've got these you've got these three that weren't on the list. Okay. Oh, yes Luke Johnson Luke Johnson and Victor Mehta and Anika Prajapati. Okay. They're nothing. They may be virtual. That's right. Congratulations to all of our honorable mention winners Now we're moving to Exemplary Boone Fassnatt Presley Fisher Maya Narsaly Lyndon Williams Adirahi Niranjan Kumar Eloise Jennings Ronan McLarney Amina Abdulaviya Talia Sorenson Lauren Satterfield Brayden Lambert Gage Williams Lena Kimes Lily Long Riley Horn Sawyer Sineski Congratulations to all of our exemplary project winners now, we're going to call them. It's Judy Dave to do the Scott Riles and Dewey Awards That's what I said. Yeah You want to move on with the special award? Yeah So I think what we should do is they're getting their photographs made we're just going to ask the honorable mention students We'll call them up after the program and do that. And but do the grander ones now. Yeah. Yeah So Okay So we were so excited to be running on time today You don't realize this is a record for us to be on time That we completely forgot to give out the medals for the honorable mention and the plaques for the exemplary projects There are you know how many of us standing on stage and none of them. They're sitting right here and we forgot to give them so after we call out these five top awards, we will be calling out the other projects That need to come and get their their medals and their plaques, okay? You do have something more than a certificate coming to you just not Just then but in the future. All right, do we want to do the drawing to make sure everybody's back or Okay, so we'll do the drawing before we have them come up and get their medals and plaques All right, so we will be doing a drawing of the people who completed the passport It's right over there. Okay. We have the envelopes for those they're ready to go and they're gift cards in there soon Good stuff. All right. So these five awards are for students That were looked at as the top five projects in the elementary division And I would like to call up Scott Wiles Scott has been a judge with us for many many years. He was the lead judge for a quite a number of years and His family in honor of his mother and father are have donated this memorial award now for several years And so it is a very nice award That is now worth the exemplary projects were seventy five dollars. This is for a hundred and fifty So we need to thank Scott and his family for these awards Okay, so as I read the names this time we will make sure that we do not forget to give you the plaques Okay, I do not let children do not walk off the stage without a plaque in your hand. All right so Let me see The first award is elementary chemistry zero zero four Haley ye Okay, he's got him. Okay the second Riles award is Aweitha Niven an elementary earthen environmental zero one ten Remember these also include the virtual projects being judged to the third Riles award is for Madeline Branch elementary biosciences zero zero five The fourth Riles award is for Isabella Gorbatshi For the elementary environmental technology Zero zero two and the last Riles award is for elementary bioscience biological sciences zero zero two Korak height We've got some virtual students to Scott So the other students competed virtually and so they are included Here's the passport All right, so before We close we're going to draw the winners of the stem passport drawing Judy's drawing that now So thanks for our exhibitors for being with us again this year The two winners are Trinity Dalton we have Victor Physics project number zero zero eight. You don't have a last name Okay And these are two twenty five dollar cash gifts Go get rich man All right, so we're going to call up all of the honorable mention Award winners all at one time so that you can get your medals So if you received an honorable mention, please come to the stage Yes Thank you Thank you. Thank you Congrats again Congrats again Congrats again. All right now we're going to call up all the exemplary award winners at one time to receive your plaques Congrats again Congrats All right, thank you all so much for allowing us to spend the day with you Students good luck in all of your future endeavors and at this time I would like to ask our co-director dr. Tom Williams to come forward with some closing remarks Thank you. Thank you, dr. Sanders Raise your hand if you were here when Isan bra made some comments this morning at opening session raise your hand Remember one of the things he said Don't worry about failing Right science and engineering is all about Finding out process that we can improve so thank you for your patience with us today I do hope as the day comes to a close for you Their students have had a great experience with our interacting with our judges here on the NC State campus We are delighted and honored to have them here to represent students from all across North Carolina We hope as the year progresses you'll continue to follow us on social media That you'll continue to support your students and to support your teachers as they move forward with research in the coming year We want to thank you and congratulate you again. Have a safe journey home today Don't forget to take your projects out of Carmichael gymnasium if you've not already picked them up by five o'clock, okay? Everybody good. Have a great day. Thank you