THOMASVILLE – A day after winning first place in the ninth annual Hasty Elementary School Science Fair, Erica Saintsing continued basking in the fact that she won the fair’s top prize Tuesday.

“It was actually pretty cool,” said Saintsing, a fifth-grade student. “It felt good because a lot of people would come up to me and say, ‘Good job on your project’ and it made me feel really good.”

Jane Withers, principal of Hasty Elementary, called the Science Fair “quite successful.” She said the projects also were high-quality, age-appropriate and interesting topics.

Twenty-two students participated in the Science Fair, which was open to second through fifth grades.

Organized by the school’s PTO, the Science Fair’s participants were judged based on creativity, scientific thought and organization, skill, workmanship and neatness. Larry Talley, a former principal of Hasty Elementary, and Phyllis Pugh, a longtime teacher at the school, were among the judges. The PTO awarded cash prizes to the first-, second- and third-place winners from each grade level. Students also received a ribbon for their participation. Saintsing took home top honors for her project that displayed if music does have an impact on how dogs act. She did her project by using music on four dogs, including a stray that is now her pet.

“I learned that dogs really do act differently to music because one of the dogs I did doesn’t really like fast music that’s loud because he sort of hid the whole time,” she said.

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WINNERS

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Fifth grade: Erica Saintsing, first place; Sheyenne Hunt, second place; Haley Pesqueira, third place.

Fourth grade: Brian Norton and Maeghan Reynolds, first place; Alyssa McNeil and Katie Wooten, second place; Stephanie Salas, third place.

Third grade: Christina Gross, first place; Michael Foster, second place; Kimberly Metz, third place.

Second grade: Brayden Curry, first place; Morgan Ayscue, second place; Riley George, third place.