BHS Student is Offically a BioGENEius.


by: Katie Russell

This past week BHS’s own Carver Nichols not only won first in his category at the North Carolina Student Academy of Science fair, but won the BioGENEius award. In order to win Nichols wrote an exceptional research paper, and project that was reviewed by a panel of judges. This award is recognized both at the State and National level and Nichols will be one of the national representatives in the BioGENEius competition in San Francisco, California. He will be competing against 15 other student from Australia Canada, Germany for the International BioGeneius honor. “It was such a humbling and powerful experience,” said Nichols. “I am truly walking among Giants, this is the best of the best.”
Nichols’s first place project was in the Biotechnology category, and is something that is very important to the agriculture world. Nichols did his project on grafting different plants and producing different varieties of plants.

However, Nichols does not want to take all the credit. He was very thankful for his teachers and mentor, Dr. Wilcox for encouraging him and helping him write his paper. who helped him along the way. He also wanted to especially thank his mother, Jan Galloway, for all the time she put in to have made him into the person he is today. “Just watching her work, and seeing how hard she works to provide, has given me my work ethic,” Nichols said

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