Jeannet took second overall in the Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium

Submitted by Gary Laursen
Phone: 474-6295
05/02/05

Fairbanks homeschooled sophomore, Kennan Jeannet, placed third at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in San Diego, Calif. last month with her project, Super Cooling Effects in beetles. Jeannet was one of two awarded a $2,000 scholarship provided by the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

She competed against a field of 230 countries best and brightest high school students, placing her in the top one percent of her peers. She qualified for the NJSH by placing second in the affiliated Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium an outeach program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Jeannet worked with Brian Barnes, director of the Institute of Arctic Biology, and UAF graduate student, Todd Sformo.

Past participants of the ASHSSS, hosted by UAF, have been published in scientific journals, gone on to work toward advanced science degrees and one has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. The ASHSSS program is one of 48 regional affiliates to the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.