West Valley High School science teacher Gregory Kahoe, Petersburg High School student Ian Fleming, West Valley student Michael Kaden-Hoffmann and Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium director Abel Bult-Ito, left to right, pose after Fleming and Kaden-Hoffmann won awards at the 53rd National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Two Alaska high school students won top honors in a national competition for original scientific research.
Ian Fleming, of Petersburg, earned first place and a $12,000 scholarship for his research on the negative effects of a common herbicide on coho salmon eggs. Michael Kaden-Hoffmann, of Fairbanks, won fourth place and $300 for a poster detailing research that supports the recognition of three and not just two species of the plant dwarf rosebay (Therorhodion), which grows in Alaska.
Both students competed April 29-May 2 at the 53rd National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in Hunt Val...
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