Fair being held this year on May 10-16 in

Fair being held this year on May 10-16 in Louisville, Ky.

The International Fair is one of several premiere programs in the world for science students at that age level. About 1,200 students from all over the United States and the world will compete there. Award monies given there total about one and a half million dollars.

Eighth grader Steven Clark took home four awards including second in the junior division Social & Computing Sciences for his exhibit, Terrain Navigator. His project was selected by the U.S. Air Force as the Outstanding Project for the entire junior division. Steven was also the recipient of two special awards: The Outstanding Project in Social and Computing Sciences Award sponsored by the U.S. Army and the Student Who Applied Most Effort To Project In Social & Computing Sciences sponsored by the Board of the Piedmont Regional Science Fair.

Third place winners in the junior division from Rappahannock were: Bruce Flinchum in Engineering for his project May the Best Bridge Win!, and Dawn Andreoni for her Pollution Science project What a Dump.

Bruce Flinchum also won a special award — the Army Engineering Award, sponsored by the U.S. Army — for his exhibit.

While the older students were off winning awards in Charlottesville the Pre-kindergarten through third grade classes at Rappahannock Elementary School were also learning about science at the Primary Science Fair.

Over 200 students submitted individual projects and each of the 18 classes did class projects as well.

However, for this fair judging was not an issue. The fair was conducted as a learning process for hypothesizing and planning a project.

The students were advised on the success of their projects by 10 sixth and seventh grade students who worked with them individually.

The students explained verbally