A Hamilton High East student recently won an honorable mention at SUNY Oswego’s third annual GENIUS Olympiad global environmental science, art, writing and design competition.
Andrew Baskharon earned the recognition for a project titled “The Use of Cattail and Parrot’s Feather as a Means of Bioremediation” in the science category.
Baskharon was one of 330 competitors from 44 countries and 30 states. Competitors were finalists in a worldwide competition that attracted nearly 1,000 participants
Entries in the scholarly competition spanned environmental quality, ecology and biodiversity, resources and energy and human ecology.
GENIUS honorees took home prizes as well as certificates and medals.
They also attended opening and closing ceremonies, a symposium on learning and an international cultural fair at the college’s Campus Center and made a day trip to Niagara Falls and Syracuse’s Destiny USA before departing June 21 for a trip to Washington, D.C.
More information is online at geniusolympiad.org.
