FMS, below are the lists of winners of the 2023 FMS District Science Fair Awards, which took place on Saturday, February 4, at Piedra Vista High School. Twenty-eight students will represent Farmington Municipal Schools at the San Juan Regional Science Fair on March 3 & 4, 2023. Click here to view this year's amazing 3D projects from our students and sponsors.
San Juan Regional Science Fair Overall Division Winners
- 2023 Science Fair Sponsor of the Year: Amy DeWees
- Overall Division Winner – Lower Elementary: Brandon Lee
- Overall Division Winner – Upper Elementary: Jude Elmore
- Overall Division Winner – Junior: Ryan Loney
- Overall Division Winner – Senior: June Loukinas
In the photo: Students at Ladera del Norte participate in virtual interviews for the District Science Fair on Friday, February 3, 2023.
FMS District Science Fair Results By Category
*Students who qualified to compete at the San Juan Regional Science Fair
Animal Sciences
- *First Place: Olive Todacheeny (Animas Elementary School)
- *First Place: Aliyah Yazzie (Animas Elementary School)
Behavioral & Social Science
- *First Place: Tommy Henry (Northeast Elementary School)
- *First Place: Aaron Tsinigine (Northeast Elementary School)
- *First Place: Emily Boognl (Hermosa Middle School)
- *Second Place: AB Torres (Mesa View Middle School)
- *Second Place: Alejandro Magallanes (Mesa View Middle School)
Botany
- *First Place: Ryan Loney (Heights Middle School)
- First Place: David Westbrook (Mesa Verde Elementary School)
- First Place: Brandon Lee (Bluffview Elementary School)
- First Place: Antecia Nakai (Animas Elementary School)
- *Second Place: Mya Sandoval (Mesa View Middle School)
- Second Place: Cooper Curtis (Mesa Verde Elementary School)
- Second Place: Leila Giebitz (McKinley Elementary School)
- Second Place: Brexton Fine (McKinley Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Ashlynn Thrower (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
Chemistry
- *First Place: Ryker Burns (Northeast Elementary School)
- *First Place: Lucas Serna (Northeast Elementary School)
- *First Place: Maggie Goodsell (Northeast Elementary School)
- *First Place: Andrea Hammond (Mesa View Middle School)
- *First Place: June Loukinas (San Juan College High School)
- First Place: Joseph Sypher (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- First Place: David Decker (Northeast Elementary School)
- First Place: Hailey Coleman (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- First Place: Sophia Stallings (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- First Place: Rogue Thompson (Northeast Elementary School)
- *Second Place: Aaron Mansinas-Camarillo (Mesa View Middle School)
- *Second Place: Hector Heras (Mesa View Middle School)
- Second Place: Charley Garrett (McKinley Elementary School)
- Second Place: Claire Hammond (Bluffview Elementary School)
- Second Place: Ivanna Demokhina (Northeast Elementary School)
- Second Place: Sarah Eberhard (Northeast Elementary School)
- Third Place: CJ Leyva (Northeast Elementary School)
- Third Place: Westden Davis (Northeast Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Payton Jacquez (Northeast Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Caiden Simpson (Ladera del Norte Elementary
- Honorable Mention: Cael Johnson (Northeast Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Callie Patton (Animas Elementary School)
Computers
- First Place: Daisy Kimlinger (Animas Elementary School)
- First Place: Marquez Wood (Animas Elementary School)
- Third Place: Finnigan Raines (Hermosa Middle School)
Earth & Space
- Second Place: Jed Reynolds (Northeast Elementary)
- Second Place: Aliyah Porras (Northeast Elementary)
- Second Place: Thompson Lyanna (Northeast Elementary)
Energy and Transportation
- First Place: Jude Elmore (Ladera del Norte Elementary)
- Second Place: Lisa Konda Lutondo (McKinley Elementary)
- Third Place: Levi Patton (McKinley Elementary)
Engineering
- *First Place: Amber Bizardie (San Juan College High School)
- *Second Place: Scarlett Henderson (Hermosa Middle School)
Environmental Science
- *First Place: Tysn Bluel (McKinley Elementary School)
- *First Place: Seth Lobato (McKinley Elementary School)
- First Place: Rebecca Morgan (Animas Elementary School)
- Second Place: Connor Murphy (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- Second Place: Chance Castaneda (Esperanza Elementary School)
- Third Place: Ziva Devargas (Animas Elementary School)
- Third Place: Breklyn Christensen (Hermosa Middle School)
- Honorable Mention: Alyssa Brown (Mesa View Middle School)
Medicine & Health
- *First Place: Cambre Kern (Esperanza Elementary School)
- *First Place: Shaughnessy Yazzie (Esperanza Elementary School)
- *First Place: Sylas Crawford-Noel (Heights Middle School)
- First Place: Aliya Kimball (Mesa Verde Elementary School)
- Second Place: Savannah Collyer (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Sophia Mosley (Esperanza Elementary School)
Microbiology
- *First Place: Phoebe Winfrey (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- *First Place: Leyla Palacios (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- *First Place: Drake Rivera (Mesa View Middle School)
- *First Place: Cassius Montoya (Mesa View Middle School)
Physics & Astronomy
- *First Place: Gordon Hilton (Northeast Elementary School)
- Second Place: Jaxon House (Mesa Verde Elementary School)
- First Place: Deja Flores (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- First Place: Alyssa Cornelison (Ladera del Norte Elementary School)
- First Place: Emalyn Berry (Bluffview Elementary School)
- Second Place: Carver Smouse (Esperanza Elementary School)
- Second Place: Gibram Acosta (Esperanza Elementary School)
- Third Place: Jackson Jensen (Esperanza Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Kenneth Ocampo Ortiz (Animas Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Urias Harry (Esperanza Elementary School)
- Honorable Mention: Jeremiah Charley (Northeast Elementary School)
Zoology
- *First Place: Ellianna Thornburg (Mesa View Middle School)