Sanford Middle School

Nirva Vassa Wins Grand Award at

State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida

Congratulations Nirva Vassa the winner of the Junior Division Grand Award (Dr. Nelson Ying Scholars Grand Award). Nirva's science teacher is Mrs. Kim Coleman and the title of her project was: I Got C: A Stability Study of Vitamin C in Sonicated Fresh Orange Juice under Deaeration using Titration. In addition to being the Grand Prize Award winner, Nirva won $100 cash for the Dr. Benjamin Cole award, a plaque and a $500 cash award from the Dr. Nelson Ying Foundation and a recommendation to the Broadcom MASTERS competition.

Sanford Students

Patel and Sepulveda

Win Science Challenge 2012

Congratulations to Sanford Middle School student's  Nikhil Patel and Jonathan Sepulveda for being named winners at the Orlando Science Center's Science Challenge 2012. Nikhil won the Jr Comp. Science category and Jonathan won for the Jr Earth & Space category. Presented by Bright House Networks, the Science Challenge is intended to encourage excellence in science education, and provides an intermediate event between the County Science Fairs and the State Science Fair. It operates under the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) rules. The participants are the first place winners in the physical science competitions in county Science Fairs in the six surrounding counties (Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia).

Seminole County Science Fair Winners

Congratulations to all students that participated in the 2012 Seminole County Science Fair. We are happy to announce that Sanford Middle School has three students that will be participating at the 2012 State Science and Engineering Fair.  

Nirva Vassa in Biochemistry
Nikhil Patel in Computer Science
Jonathan Sepulveda in Earth and Planetary Science

Nikhil Patel is

Broadcom MASTERS Finalist

Congratulations, to Nikhil Patel, student at Sanford Middle, for being selected as a finalist in the first ever Broadcam MASTERS™ (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars) competition.  Under the direction of his teacher, Mrs. Heidi Broksas-Weitnauer, Mr. Patel won this prestigious accolade for designing and testing a one of a kind Science Fair project titled, “DEFROST: Designing an Environmentally Friendly Recycler of the Sun's Thermal Energy.”  

The Broadcom MASTERS finalists were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists and engineers from among 1,476 applicants located in 45 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. These finalists come from middle schools across the United States. As one of these finalists, Mr. Patel will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, DC, in October to showcase his science fair project and compete in a four-day STEM competition for awards and prizes.  He also has an opportunity to win the top education award of $25,000.