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By David Naser Special to the Rappahannock News
Rappahannock County didn’t send a bus load of students to the 25th Annual Piedmont Regional Science Fair held in Charlottesville on March 9. But those they did send represented their county well.
Winners from the local science fairs held at Rappahannock’s two public schools competed against other students from this region.
In the junior division (grades 6-8), Isabelle Eastham finished in first place in the microbiology category. A student at Rappahannock County Elementary School, her project entitled “Which type of Cow Cheese does Mold Appear on First, Pasteurized or Nonpasteurized?” was also the winner of the Junior Division Discovery Challenge Award and was invited to participate in the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge.
In the senior division, freshman A.J. Collins received a second place in the Medicine and Health Division for his project, “A Bare Bones Problem: The Effect of Liquids on Bone Decay.” Collins didn’t stop there and also received an Honorable Mention awarded by the Task Force for Childhood Obesity.
Coming in as another first place winner was sophomore Laura Keller in the Zoology division for her project, “Split Decision: Regeneration of Planaria.”
Both Collins and Keller will now advance to the
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