Saif Siddiquee, seventh grader, won the  Scripps Regional Spelling Bee Championship and will advance to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC in May.

Henry McDaniel, seventh grader, won the  school-level National Geographic Bee and will advance to the state competition.

Penn Alexander students won 33 awards at the 2016 George Washington Carver Science Fair. At the secondary fair, first-place winners were Maggie Lapp, seventh grader, for “Musical Mysteries;” and Charlotte Poehlmann, seventh grader, for “Milk Matters.” 

At the elementary fair, first-place winners from the Penn Alexander School were Brady DeGrands, fifth grader, for “Paper Airplane’s Flight Dynamics;” Siobhan Stachelek, sixth grader, for “Got Compost?;” Sarah Leonard, fifth grader, for “Red Wigglers: Are They Your Plant’s Best Friend?;” and Ayush Bennur, fourth grader, for “Saving Apple Slices from the Doom of Browning.”

Ms. Lapp, Ms. Poehlmann and Ms. Stachelek will advance to the Delaware Valley Science Fair, as will Sylvia Cho, eighth grader, and Kevin Giddings, seventh grader.