Franklin Park resident Liam Ellis, an eighth grader at Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh, located in Hampton, placed second at Carnegie Science Center’s Covestro Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair in the category: Medicine/Health/Biochemistry – Junior Division. His project was titled “The Bacteria Among Us: Do bathrooms have more germs than other surfaces in a school?”
More than 1,000 students from 100 schools across Pennsylvania and Maryland competed for awards, prizes and scholarships at the science fair, which took place March 30, at Heinz Field.
