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Early Thursday morning, March 12, a group of sleepy Rappahannock students traveled to the Piedmont Regional Science Fair in Charlottesville, where Piedmont Virginia Community College Students were on break. The nine “RCMS” and five RCHS students were excited about the opportunity to compete with their science projects at a higher level. They were not only interviewed by judges, interested parents and teachers, but by news reporters and army photographers as well.
At the fair, 301 students congregated from the City of Charlottesville and nine counties, stretching from Louisa and Nelson counties in the south all the way to King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Rappahannock counties in the north. There, 75 judges came from area organizations such as * the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center, the world headquarters of General Electric Fanuc, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Power. These same organizations, along with the schools represented, PVCC, Crutchfeild Corporation, Blueridge Technologies, WalMart of Culpeper, Kings Dominion and other private contributors, made this event possible because they believe students should be given the opportunity to present their investigations to a broad audience. The Armed Forces, NASA, and private companies, like Intel and Kodak gave their own awards for projects that emphasized applications specific to their uses. This year they also had a new presenta
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