And the Science Fair winners are ...

Cloquet students won the following corporate and special awards during the Northeast Minnesota Regional & American Indian Science Fair at the University of Minnesota Duluth Feb. 9.

First place Category Awards

Winners advance to the Minnesota Academy of Science State Science Fair

Middle School

Behavioral Science: Rowan Rock

Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical: Miles Fischer

Medicine and Health: Grace Lavan

Microbiology: Aili Buytaert

High School

Animal Science: Jerome Henagin

Behavioral Science: Taylor Anderson, Ethan Drouillard

Biochemistry: Emma Wells

Environmental Management:

Marcy Ferriere and Elizabeth Strickland

Environmental Science: Payten Schneberger and MacKenzie Brummer, Claire Taubman

Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical: Abigail Smith

Second place Category Awards

Middle school

Animal Science: Paige Stish, Kloey Jenson, and Brianna Conant

Behavioral Science: Merissa Witte, and Zachary Line

Biochemistry: Emily Sapyta

Chemistry: Taylor Wenneson and Melaina Larsen, Shayna Hamilton and Mckenna Amey

Medicine and Health: Timber Latvala and Aaliyah Finch

Plant Science: Beau Plante

High school

Biochemistry: Emily Sapyta

Environmental Management: Cassandra Neumann

Plant Science: Maya Fairbanks

First place Senior High Paper Awards

Award winners advance to the Minnesota Academy of Science Tri-state Science and Humanities Symposium:

Ethan Drouillard, Cassandra Neumann, Abigail Smith, Marcy Ferriere and Elizabeth Strickland, Taylor Anderson

MacKenzie Brummer and Payten Schneberger, Claire Taubman, Emma Wells

American Indian Science & Engineering Society - American Indian High School and or Middle School students advance to apply online for the National American Indian Science & Engineering Fair. Middle School: Zachary Line, Paige Stish, Kloey Jensen, Brianna Conant

High School: Jerome Henagin, Marcy Ferriere, Elizabeth Strickland, Pery Boyd-Affias, Ethan Drouillard, Maya Fairbanks

Broadcom M.A.S.T.E.R.S. (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars)

BEST Middle School Project-Aili Buytaert, Miles Fischer, Emily Sapyta, Rowan Rock, Zach Line, Merissa Witte, Grace Lavan

Stockholm Junior Water Prize - Three best projects water-related projects win certificates with possibility of national competition and award

Pery Boyd-Affias, 10th grade

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Finalists: Abigail Smith, junior, Emma Wells, senior

Partners Payten Schneberger and MacKenzie Brummer, seniors

Alternates: Claire Taubman, senior, Marcy Ferriere, junior, Elizabeth Strickland, junior

Other awards:

Great Lakes Aquarium Award: Emily Sapyta

Mu Alpha Theta Award: Jerome Henagin, Payten Schneberger and MacKenzie Brummer

Regional Ricoh Sustainable Development Award: Claire Taubman

Society of Women Engineers: Abigail Smith

UMD Geology Award: Payten Schneberger and MacKenzie Brummer

UMD Psychology Award: Taylor Anderson

Metric Award: Marcy Ferriere and Elizabeth Strickland

Naval Science Awards: Abigail Smith

Lake Superior Section of the American Chemical Society: Emma Wells, Emily Sapyta, Taylor Wenneson and Melaina Larsen

American Meteorological Society Award: Maya Fairbanks

NRRI Award for Innovation and Scientific Excellence: Emma Wells, Cassandra Neumann

NASA Earth System Science Award: Emily Sapyta

Yale Science & Engineering Association Award: Ethan Droulliard, Abigail Smith

UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry Awards Certificate: Emily Sapyta

Lake Superior Zookeeper Award: Marcy Ferriere and Elizabeth Strickland

Duluth Rotary #25 Award: Pery Boyd-Affias

Northwoods Women in Science (NWIS): Rowan Rock, Emily Sapyta

United States Air Force Award: Claire Taubman, Emma Wells

Beta Lambda Psi Award to the Most Empowering Female: Timber Latvala, middle school; Abigail Smith, high school

ASM Materials Education Foundation Award: Timber Latvala, middle school; Abigail Smith, high school

American Psychological Association: Rowan Rock, Middle School; Ethan Drouillard, High School

WLSSD Award & Dick Holt Environmental Science Award: Rowan Rock, eighth grade