After winning first place honors at the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School Project Forum in early February, Josephine Eaton has now taken top honors in the state.
The Salem High School junior won the top honor in her category of Plant Sciences and she was named one of the prestigious Grand Award winners on the state level. Both accomplishments are very rare for students from the Governor’s School for Science and Technology.
These accomplishments now catapult her to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles. She will not only present her project – “The Effectiveness of Glycine max on Microplastic Removal from Soil” – but she will have a week of opportunities to learn, meet people from around the world and have some unique experiences.
In nearly 40 years, Eaton is just the fourth student from Salem who has advanced to this level. Samuel Harvey did so in 2007 and Ben Andrews accomplished the feat twice in 1999 and 2001, according to the school.
-The Salem Times-Register
