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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 8, 1993                   TAG: 9304080182
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Southwest Bureau
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Medium

2 PULASKI COUNTY STUDENTS WIN REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR

Two Pulaski County High School students will enter their science exhibits in the International Science and Engineering Fair next month.

Carla Rogers and Brooks Moses were the grand award winners in last weekend's Blue Ridge Highlands Regional Science Fair at Wytheville Community College, which sponsored the competition in cooperation with New River Community College.

Rogers and Moses will go to Mississippi Beach, Miss., for the international competition May 9-15. The alternate grand award winner was Diane Owens, also a Pulaski County High School student.

Invitations to compete in the Virginia State Science Fair in Anandale will go to first-place winners in each category from the Blue Ridge fair.

First-place winners were Jake Davis, mathematics, and George Parker, physics, both from Carroll County High; Aaron Mumaw, computer, Floyd County High; Orion Scott, behavioral, Giles High; Josh Averette, biochemistry; Suzanne Kirby, botany; Brooks Moses, engineering; Phuong Lui, microbiology; Drema Crist, medicine/health; Micah R. McMillan, chemistry; Carla Rogers, environmental science; and Ben McGlothlin, zoology, all from Pulaski County High.

Special awards also were given by various organizations.

Sam Turner, Carroll County High, won the American Meteorological Society award; Diane Owens, Phuong Lui and Amanda Folsom, all of Pulaski County High, American Society for Microbiology awards; George Parker, Carroll County High, Eastman Kodak award; Brooks Moses, Pulaski County High, Junior Engineering Technical Society award; Wylie C. Powers and Anthony Wood, both Pulaski County High, National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards; Kelly Campbell, Pulaski County High, National Association of Biology Teachers award; and Amber Jenkins, Pulaski County High, National Council of Teachers Mathematics award.

The top four U.S. Army awards went, in order, to Phuong Lui, Brooks Moses, Diane Owens and Elisabeth Morgan, all of Pulaski County High. 




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