LaMere STEAMrolls the competition

Ariana LaMere is the daughter of Rashay Castillo and the late Jaramyn LaMere. She is the granddaughter of April Hickman and Eugene Castillo and the great-granddaughter of the late Gaston Hickman and Annabelle Wallace.

Ariana is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation but is also of the Navajo Nation, Chippewa-Cree Tribe and Santo Domingo Pueblo.

She is a seventh-grade student at Dove Science Academy Middle School South in Oklahoma City.

Ariana participated in the school’s Science Fair on December 7, 2024. Ariana’s science project was over the study of fertilizer and plant growth titled “Fertilizer Feud.”

Ariana won first place in the Dove Science Academy MS 2024-2025 for the seventh-grade class and Best Overall in the Science Fair.

“We are very proud of her accomplishments and wish her well at the state competition,” said her family.