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2026 Louisiana Region 5 Science & Engineering Fair

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I would like to thank Sasol, all students, teachers, parents, judges, volunteers, special awards organizations and businesses, and Region 5 Science Fair Staff for helping to make the 2026 Fair a huge success.  If you have any suggestions at all to improve on the 2027 Fair, I urge you to please let Judy Reeves, 2026 Director, know.  

Best of Fair Winner gets and Best of Senior Division get a bid to the Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona in May.

202026 Best of Fair 

Kaylee Zhang

(Alfred M. Barbe High School)

(ISEF FInalist)

2026 Senior Division Winner 

Douglass Mayberry,

(La. School of Math, Science & Art)

(ISEF Finalist)

2026 Junior Division Winner 

Armaan Basra 

(EDS Middle)

2026 Elementary Division Winner 

Paranika Ethakota 

(TS Cooley Elementary)

Best of Schools

Johnson Bayou Senior High

St. Margaret Catholic Miiddle

Moss Bluff Elementary

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Senior Division Winners by Category

 

Behavioral & Social

Biochemistry

2nd - Alanna Gonzalez-James

(Barbe Senior High)

3rd - Paisley Young & Makayla Corner

(Johnson Bayou High)

   

3rd - Kayson Rossetter

(Johnson Bayou High)

 

  

  

Biomedical Engineering Chemistry

2nd - Roseline Bandela

(Barbe Senior High)

 

2nd -  Mckennlee Bearb

(Johnson Bayou High)

 

Environmental Engineering Mathematics

1st - Kaylee Zhang

(Barbe Senior High)

 

1st -  Douglass Mayberry

(Louisiana School For Math, Science & Arts)

 

Physics & Astronomy Robots & Intelligent Machines

2nd - Audrey Roberts & Charley Young

(Johnson Bayou High)

3rd - Dallas Sandifer & Nate Trahan

(Johnson Bayou High)

  

3rd -  Logan Marcantel & Wyatt Howell

(Kinder High School)

 

 

 

  
Junior Division Winners by Category

Animal Science

Behavioral & Social

 1st - Benjamin Callhan

(Prudentia Classical Academy)

2nd - Aayden Derouen

(Moss Bluff Middle)

3rd - Millie Corkran

(St. Margaret)

     

  

  

1st - Ryleigh Toups

(St. Margaret)

2nd - Matthew Prewitt

(Prudentia Classical Academy)

3rd - Kynnedi Watts

(St. Margaret)

3rd - Emma Salveson

(Moss Bluff Middle)

   

Biochemistry

Biomedical Health Science

  3rd - James Kennedy

(ICCS)

 

 

 

  

  

1st - Owen Robinson

(EDS)

2nd - Beck Springer

(EDS)

3rd - Elliot Jessen & Adelaide Leblanc

(St. Margaret)

   

Biomedical Engineering Cellular Molecular Biology

1st - Riley & Ryder Watson

(Oakdale Middle)

2nd - Lucia Gauthreaux

(St. Margaret)

3rd - Nathan Wang

(ICCS)

  

3rd - Aliannya Jocobs & Macelyn Journet

(Oak Park Middle)

     

 

 

 

Chemistry Earth & Environmental Science

1st - Callie Comeaux

(First Baptist Christian Acad)

2nd - Corleigh Kallenback

(First Baptist Christian Acad)

3rd - Emery Fontenot

(St. Margaret)

3rd - Peyton Shoemake

(Johnson Bayou)

  

1st -Abby Gatlin

(St. Margaret)

2nd - Shelby Chapman

(St. Margaret)

3rd - Alba Khoury & Swayze Fontenot

(St. Margaret)

    

 

Energy/Sustainable Materialss

Engineering/Stats/Dynamics

1st - Naksh Patel

(EDS)

2nd - Maleyah Anderson

(St. Margaret)

3nd - Asher Johnson

(EDS)

3rd - Dylan Elliott

(ICCS)

     

  

1st - Nate Gouldin

(ICCS)

2nd - Timothy McNally & Drake Corkran

(St. Margaret)

3rd - Philip Maricle

(Oakdale Middle)

3rd - Lanie Croxdale

(First Baptist Christian Acad)

  

Environmental Engineering

Material Science

1st - Armaan Basra

(EDS)

2nd - Sterling Hylton

(St. Margaret)

3rd - Karter Noel

(St. Margaret)

 

 

 

1st -Ethan Tseng

(EDS)

2nd - Dalavaiaeva Anderson

(Oak Park Middle)

2nd - Abby Young

(Johnson Bayou)

3rd - Adele Sov

(St. Margaret)

  

Mathematics Microbiology

1st - Caden Lyons

(St. Margaret)

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st - Kallie Hicks

(First Baptist Christian Adad)

2nd - Mohammad Mahmood

(EDS)

3rd - Kusuma Matsa

(F.K. White Middle)

HM - Armaan Shahid

(EDS)

   

Physics - Astronomy Plant Sciences

1st - Christian Istre

(St. Margaret)

2nd - Joli Strother

(Oakdale Middle)

2nd - Arnold Jasso

(Johnson Bayou)

2nd - Ada Horner

(EDS) 

    

1st - Allison Swire

(EDS)

2nd - Evelyn Whatley

(F.K. White Middle)

3rd - Emily Heath

(St. Margaret)

  

 

  

Robotics - Intelligent Machines     

1st - Santiago Rodriguez

(ICCS)

2nd - Austyn Vanderver

(First Baptist Christian Acad)

 

    

 

 
Elementary Division Winners by Category

Animal Science

Behavioral & Social

   1st - Eden Price & Charlie Thornton

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

2nd - Abigail Villermin

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

   

  

 1st - Delane Daughdrill

(Western Heights Elementary)

2nd - Georgie Berryhill

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

3rd - Katherine Benoit

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

  

Biochemistry

Biomedical & Health Science

1st - Rhett Storer

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

2nd - Maya Hite

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

3rd - Greyson Bellard

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

   

1st - Daxson Washington

(Combre-Fondel Elementary)

2nd - Zoey Domingue

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

  

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Cellular & Molecular Biology Chemistry

1st - Autumn Egnatuk

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

1st - Paranika Ethakota

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

1st - Camden Hodges

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

3rd - Sadie LeDoux

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM - Emma Pryor

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM - Claire McFetridge

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM -Betsie Vaccaro

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

   

Earth Environmental Sciences

Energy :Sustainable Materials)

1st - Anna Malinowski

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd - Moya Cahoon

(Johnson Bayou)

2nd - Barrett Maddox

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM - Arwen Treadway

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

   

1st - Stephen Wang

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd - Lane Helms

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

3rd - Jhett Carriere

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM - Dani Allen

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

    

Engineering: Statics/ Dynamics

Environmental Engineering

1st - alaya Trahan

(Johnson Bayou)

2nd - Julius LeBlanc

(Johnson Bayou)

3rd - Cyblee Shaheen

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

    

1st - Gabriel Arana

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd - Paisley Predium

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

 

  

  

Mathematics

Microbiology

2nd - Jeremy Craft

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

1st - Lucas Haman

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

1st - Kaylee Church

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

3rd - Lillian Huber

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM - Kinley Larce

(Combre-Fondel Elementary)

  

Physics & Astronomy Plant Science

1st - Seyah Arachchige

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd -William Folse

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd - Leighann Holman

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

HM - Hazel Sanders & Ellanie McEvoy

(Moss Bluff Elementary)

     

1st - Mariah Reeves

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Systems Software

Translational Medical Science

1st - Chris Shearman

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd - Reid Dupre

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

3rd - Aizel Awan

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

  

1st - Ian Carroll

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

2nd - Lettie Miller

(T.S. Cooley Elementary)

 

 

 

 
Special Award Winners
Director's Award

Aizel Awan (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

  Chris Shearman (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

  Reid Dupre (Moss Bluff Elementary)

      Elleigh Maynor (First Baptist Christian Academy)

      Alice Dauzat (Oakdale Middle School)

      Joli Strother (Oakdale Middle School)

      Kaylee Zhang (Alfred m. Barbe High School)

      Logan Marcantel (Kinder High School)

      Wyatt Howell (Kinder High School)

           

Thermo Fisher Scientific Jr Inventor Challenge

Abby Gatlin  (St. Margaret)

Naksh Patel (EDS)

Riley Watson  (S.P. Arnett Middle)

Ryder Watson  (S.P. Arnett Middle)

Armaan Basra  (EDS)

Nate Gouldin  (ICCS)

  Caden Lyons (St. Margaret)

  Ethan Tseng  (EDS)

       Christian Istre  (St. Margaret)

       Allison Swire  (EDS)

       Santiago Rodriguez  (ICCS)

     

Regeneron Biomedical Science Award

Roseline Bandela (Alfred M. Barbe High School)

     
Lemelson Early Inventor

APhilip Maricle (Oakdale Middle School)

     
U.S. Metric Association

Maleyah Anderson  (St. Margaret Catholic)

   

United States Air Force

EGabriel Arana  (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

FAlaya Trahan  (Johnson Bayou)

ARyleigh Toups  (St. Margaret Catholic)

MCaden Lyons  (St. Margaret Catholic)

RLogan Marcantel  (Kinder High School)

RWyatt Howell  (Kinder High School)        

       

NASA Earth System Science Award

Shelby Chapman (St. Margaret Catholic)

     

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Armaan Basra (EDS)

     

Society for In Vitro Biology

Roseline Bandela (Alfred M. Barbe High School)

     
Region V STEM Center  (1st Place)

Eizel Awan (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

Chris Shearman (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

Stratton Brown (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

   Santiago Rodriguez (ICCS)

   Austyn Vanderver (First Baptist Christian Academy)

   Logan Marcantel (Kinder High School)

   Wyatt Howell (Kinder High School)

    

Region V STEM Center  (Honorable Mention)

ELiam Hare  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

Brantley Johnson  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

Hailey Leday  (Combre-Fondel Elementary)

   Camden Couvillion  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

   Avery Williams  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

   Reed Fontenot  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

   Kylan Richard  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

     Oliver Savoie  (Moss Bluff Elementary)

     

NEED (National Energy Education Development)

Stephen Wang (T.S. Cooley Elementary)

Dani Allen (Moss Bluff Elementary)

EJhett Carriere (Moss Bluff Elementary)

KAbby Gatlin (St. Margaret)

    

Richo USA

Logan Marcantel (Kinder High School)

Wyatt Howell (Kinder High School)

               
American Psychological Association

Ryleigh Toups (St. Margaret)

         
ACitadel - Society for Science

Timothy McNally (St. Margaret)

        Alanna Gopnzalez-James (Alfred M. Barbe High)

         
Association for Women Geoscientists

Swayze Dean Fontenot (St. Margaret)

        
Yale Science & Engineering

Roseline Bandela  (Alfred M. Bargbe High)

        
U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Mckennlee Bearb (Johnson Bayou High)

      

 

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