A student with Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center High School will get a chance to travel across the country  with her award winning project. 

Kiersten Knobbe won many awards at the Iowa State Science Fair for her project “Turbid or Not Turbid? That is the Question: Creating a Water Filtration and Sanitation Method For Developing Countries,” but her biggest achievement was being selected as a Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2022 Finalist. This means that she won an all expenses paid trip to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta, Georgia. Knobbe explains she has been working on this project for roughly six months and the work paid off in the end. 

“People might not realize it, but  I think they say they estimate about 7 million projects start out around the globe and it’s about the top 1,500 that are going to Georgia. So to just think that I’ve been selected out of all of the projects that started is a fairly big accomplishment.”

At the International Science Fair there will be roughly 70 countries and territories competing in the fair for scholarships, tuition, grants, internships and other grand prizes. Knobbe describes what she is looking forward to at the Fair. 

“To just kind of meeting other people because there’s going to be people from a lot of different countries and people from around the US, and that’s not something that I get to experience a lot is varying culture, so I’m most excited and looking forward to that.”

The International and Engineering Science Fair will take place from May 7-13th at the Georgia World Congress Center and Knobbe’s project will go through a total of eight hours of judging. She says that science is her passion and hopes to become a cancer research scientist one day.