Congratulations to Trinity’s Joey Geddie ’25 and Carson Song ’25 for finishing in the top-three at the Louisville Science Fair.
They finished third in the Bioinformatics Division, just missing the cut to qualify for the state science and engineering fair. The Rocks later found out they secured one of the three at-large bids in the entire fair for the city of Louisville and won the Health and Safety Award! At the state level, they placed in the top-five of the Bioinformatics Division, barely missing out on the International Fair.
From Joey Geddie ’25:
"Carson and I started working on our project through the Seeds of Change program here at Trinity. We both went on the second year of the program, where students work with the genetic database IMG.JGI in Costa Rica for 10 days. We decided to do comparative genetic analysis on the glycoproteins in Herpesvirus 6A and 6B after being intrigued by the lack of papers on the virus due to their youth (they were classified as viruses in 2015). While we had some help with running functions to perform the study when we got errors with our results, Carson and I conceived, executed, and analyzed each step of the research process on our own.
There was no clear division of labor, we did it together keystroke by keystroke on alternating laptops. When we finished the research and made conclusions, we gathered the information onto a PowerPoint slide and presented it to the Seeds of Change group. Then, over the course of this past year, we developed the written portion of the research process for submission to the Louisville Regional Science Fair. Because of my experience in AP Research with Mrs. deGolian, who taught me the steps to writing a graduate-level research paper, this process was straightforward. Mr. Heintz helped us by printing the PowerPoint slide onto a poster and we were ready to present.
At the Louisville Fair, Carson and I finished third in the Bioinformatics Division, barely missing the cut to qualify for the state science and engineering fair. However, after two weeks, we found out that we secured one of the three at-large bids in the entire fair for Louisville and won the Health and Safety award. At the state level, we placed in the top-five of the Bioinformatics Division, just missing the cut for the international fair.
I had the time of my life (and I'm sure Carson would agree) performing this research through Seeds of Change and being guided in the process by my AP Research class. Any student at Trinity who has even the slightest desire to go into research of any kind, not just STEM, should absolutely participate in AP Research and the Seeds of Change program at Trinity. I recommend it to the highest degree possible."