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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Six Students Win Awards at Science Fair

By By Lee Ross /
Mountain View Telegraph
      There were six students from the East Mountains who walked away with at least one award from the New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair.
       There were more than 350 from around New Mexico competing for prizes — including over $100,000 in scholarships — at the event, which was held in Socorro on April 5.
       Receiving three awards for her project, “The Effects of Surface Area on a Chemical Reaction Rate” was Mary C. Spanjers of Roosevelt Middle School.
       Spanjers took second place in the junior chemistry category, received an award from the Society for Science and the Public Middle School Program and got an award from the American Chemical Society’s central New Mexico section.
       Philip James Lane, a homeschool student from Edgewood, also received multiple awards.
       Lane took home two awards for his project “Ants Harvest Crackers: Using Western Harvest Ants to Detect Firecrackers,” including one for first place a the senior division research paper competition sponsored by the New Mexico Academy of Science, INTEL and Sandia National Labs/ Lockheed Martin. Lane also received an honorable mention in one of the Fair’s animal sciences competitions.
       Melissa Burson and Kolene Winn of Moriarty Middle School received a third-place award in junior team projects for their project “Is That Really DNA In Your Soup?”
       Brittany Ruth Raymond, a homeschool student from Edgewood, received an honorable mention in the junior physics and astronomy competition for her project “The Mechanical Ear: An Instrument That Hears.”
       Joseph Young of Edgewood Middle School got a cash award of $100 from the New Mexico Optometric Association for his project, “The Speed of Light.”
   

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