Middle and upper school science fair winners attended the citywide Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fair and presented their research. In the middle school, Lucas Rohde won 1st place in Animal Sciences, and Meerabela Kempf won 1st place in Material Sciences. Shayla Greaux won 2nd place in Engineering Energy Physical. Lucas Rohde also won third place from Washington Statistical Society and an award from the National Zoo. Meerabela Kempf also won the Materials Education Foundation prize and an honorable mention from the Society of Mechanical Engineers. In the upper school, Vivian Claire won first place for Earth and Environmental Science and Ashay Amam won second place in that category.  Vivian Pittard and Ife Akinsanya won first place for Environmental Engineering and were also awarded prizes for sustainability, Engineering. and the Geological Society.  Vivian Claire was awarded prizes by NOAA, D.C. Water, Chesapeake Water, Environmental Education Consortium and the Commissioned Officers Association. Ashay Amam also nabbed prizes from the Geological Society and Commissioned Officers Association.

Washington Latin freshman Vivian Claire won second place in the DC Poetry Out Loud finals. She took first place in the school wide competition with Wendell Berry’s “Enemies” and “Famous” by Naomi Shihab-Nye.