KELLY DAVIS | CONTRIBUTED
WINNER: Coleman Davis (pictured left), a homeschooled student in Swan Quarter, recently won first place in the North Carolina Student Academy of Science state and Region 1 levels of middle school physics. For his project, he studied how shoreline markers affected erosion patterns along a Pamlico Sound marsh on Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge in Hyde County. Coleman takes courses through Stanford Online High School, the Art of Problem Solving and Young Engineers of Today.