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

DATE: TUESDAY, March 17, 1992                   TAG: 9203170355
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Medium

A FAIR YOU'D LOVE TO ANNOUNCE

When Pat Duncan was announcing the winners in the first Southwest Virginia Governor's School Science Consortium, she paused and suggested that perhaps she, too, deserved an award.

That was because she had just successfully pronounced the title of the first-place experiment by Phuong Tuyet Lui of Pulaski County High School in the Medicine and Health category: "The Bacteriocidal Effects of Halicolna reubens, Demospongiae, and the Purple Gordonia on Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Serratia marcescens."

"It would be so much easier to say `bacteria,' " said Duncan, the school's director.

Sixty-one experiments filled the corridors of New River Community College's Rooker Hall over the weekend in what is planned as an annual event.

The top three winners in each of the 12 categories will compete in the first Blue Ridge Highlands Science Fair April 4 at Wytheville Community College, sponsored by Wytheville and New River Community Colleges. The winners there will compete in the 43rd International Science and Engineering Fair May 10-16 in Nashville, Tenn.

Judging extended into the night Friday, Duncan said. The results were announced Saturday.

Special trophies for research went to Lui for her long-titled experiment, to Jeffery Scott Caudell from Carroll County High School for his physics experiment on whether types of wood made a difference in speaker construction, and to Eddie Simmers, Pulaski County High School, on how to design a vibration analysis device.

Simmers had videotaped his presentation for Friday's judging because he was scheduled to be at a baseball game. But cold weather canceled the game, so he got to make his pitch in person.

Several students were waiting to get their tennis shoes back from Samuel D. Turner of Carroll County High School. Turner had borrowed them for a physics experiment on what type of running shoe offered the most shock absorption and energy return, which won him a 2nd-place award.

Four environmental-science experiments involved the effects of acid rain. "We've had lots of acid rain being sprayed around the Governor's School lately," Duncan said.

One experiment, which took a 2nd, was by Elisabeth Morgan of Pulaski County High School on acid rain's effects on vitamin content of Brassica Oleracea capitata.

"I do know that this is cabbage," Duncan said.

WINNERS\ \ BIOCHEMISTRY: 1st: Jia Liu, Grayson County High School; 2nd: Sally Sandidge, Pulaski County High School; 3rd: Thomas Shockley, Pulaski County High School\ BOTANY: 1st: Phuong My Lui, Pulaski County; 2nd: Chastity Friend, Pulaski County; 3rd: Tamasha DeVon Crouse, Pulaski County; 1st honorable mention: Wylie Powers, Pulaski County; 2nd honorable mention: Chastity Friend, Pulaski County\ CHEMISTRY: 1st: Micah McMillan, Pulaski County; 2nd: Scott Hall, Pulaski County ENGINEERING: 1st: Brooks Moses, Pulaski County; 2nd: Chris Sutphin, Rocky Gap High School; 3rd: Brian Christopher Weaver, Narrows High School; 1st honorable mention: L. Scott Dunaway, Pulaski County\ ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: 1st: Aaron Quinlan, Pulaski County; 2nd: Elisabeth Morgan, Pulaski County; 3rd: Chris Pendergrast, Pulaski County; 1st honorable mention: Aaron J. Smith, Pulaski County; 2nd honorable mention: Carla Rogers, Pulaski County\ MATHEMATICS: 1st: Jason Davis, Carroll County High\ MEDICINE and HEALTH: 1st: Phuong Tuyet Lui, Pulaski County; 2nd: Susanna Leigh Smith, Rural Retreat High School; 3rd: Drema Crist, Pulaski County; 1st honorable mention: Cynthia Lynn Martin, Pulaski County; 2nd honorable mention: Kelly Campbell, Pulaski County; 3rd honorable mention: Christina Dawn Hurd, Pulaski County; 4th honorable mention: Ami Patel, Pulaski County; 5th honorable mention: Jason Ross, Galax High School\ MICROBIOLOGY: 1st: Amanda Folsom, Pulaski County; 2nd: M. Elizabeth Milburn, Carroll County; 3rd: Matthew C. Miller, Pulaski County; 1st honorable mention: Steven M. Ross, Narrows; 2nd honorable mention: Amy Huff, Pulaski County PHYSICS: 1st: Eddie Simmers, Pulaski County; 2nd: Samuel D. Turner, Carroll County; 3rd: Jeffery Scott Caudell, Carroll County; 1st honorable mention: Mark Luague, Galax ZOOLOGY: 1st: Jason William Hill, Carroll County; 2nd: Shellie Simpkins, Pulaski County; 3rd: Kyle Courtney, Galax; 1st honorable mention: Anthony Smith, Pulaski County

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