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Students Win
In Science Fair
Rappahannock students won a first place, two second places, a couple of special awards and a slew of honorable mentions at the Piedmont Regional Science Fair in Charlottesville last Tuesday.
Jim Clark got first place in computer science and an Army Award, the Best of Army Award, for his project "The Traveling Salesman Problem: Modeling Likely Human Problem Solving Performance, Phase II.
Also in the senior dividion Daniel Dodson won second place in Zoology for his project "Which Type of Food Is Best for Egg Production?” Stephen Bailey received second place in Behavioral and Social Sciences for Ms project “Perception of Color,” also in the senior division.
Five high school students received honorable mention awards for their senior division science fair projects: Jonathan Maeyer in microbiology for “Does Mouthwash Actually Kill Bacteria?”, Anna Metcalfe in Medicine and Health for “Accelerating Heatbeats,” J.T. Oliver in Medicine and Health for “Which Skin Lotions Work Best?”, Luke Zindel in Engineering for “Which Building Design Would Better Survive a Storm?” and Jason Settle in Chemistry for “Rusty Nails.”
Three elementary school students also won honorable mention awards in the junior division: Brady Wolfe in Organic Chemsitry for “Is It Really a Moister Cookie?”, Summer Alexander in Physics A: Materials and Mechanics for “Locating the Center of Gravity,” and Frank Paratore in Physics A: Materials and Machanics for “Paper Is Stronger Than You Think.”
Elementary school student Meghan Fairbrother won a special award for a “Scientific Investigation Pursued with Special Enthusiasm” for her Pollution Science project “Making Trash Pay.”
Mosher Fixing
Homes
David Mosher of Amissville was one of 16 Berea College students who devoted their spring vacation to working in a Habitat for Humanity project.
The students left the campus on 1 March 20 for Robbins, Tenn., where they helped to renovated homes, ’ joining with the Appalachia Area Habitat, one of the oldest Habitat Affiliates in Kentucky.
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