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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 9, 1995                   TAG: 9504100005
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Medium

AREA STUDENTS RACK UP AWARDS AT SCIENCE FAIR

Setul Patel of Narrows High School and Jefferson Carpenter of Pulaski County High School were the two grand award winners in the fourth annual Blue Ridge Highlands Regional Science Fair held last weekend.

Patel and Carpenter, also students at the Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Mathematics, Science and Technology, will represent this part of the state at the 46th International Science and Engineering Fair in Ontario, Canada, May 6-13.

Patel also won first place in the fair's engineering division, a special Junior Engineering Technical Society award, a U.S. Department of Energy award and a U.S. Metric Association award.

Carpenter won first place in the physics division, plus a U.S. Army award and the Yale Science and Engineering Association award.

Both won special awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Pamela Morse of Giles County High School was named alternate grand award winner. Morse also won first place in the fair's senior biochemistry division and a special U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Science award.

First place individual and team winners in other senior division categories are eligible to advance to state fair competition scheduled for April 22 at Northern Virginia Community College at Annandale.

Individual senior division winners in addition to Carpenter and Patel were:

Melinda Shuler, Marion Senior High School, behavioral and social science; Steven Bowman, Carroll County High School, botany and a special U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Science award; Scott Stafford, Narrows High School, chemistry, and two special awards from the Carolina-Virginia Institute of Food Technologists and the American Chemical Society, Blacksburg chapter; Jeremy Sebens, Carroll County High School, computer science; Kelly Seaton, Dayspring Christian Academy, earth and space science and a special U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Science award; Andrew Trivette, Chilhowie High School, environmental science and a special Hoechst-Celanese Corp. environmental science award; Peter Kay, Grayson County High School, mathematics, and special awards from the U.S. Army Award and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Michael Cruise, Carroll County High School, medicine and health; John Warburton, Pulaski County High School, microbiology; and Seth Taylor, Rural Retreat High School, zoology.

Morse also won awards from the Wytheville branch of the American Association of University Women and the Association of Women Geoscientists.

Carolyn Louthen and Crystal Lowder of Rural Retreat High School took top team honors in the biological science division. Jamie Clark, Volker Neumann and Adam Phelps, from Giles County High School took first place in the physical science division.

In the junior division, Nisha Nagarkatti from Blacksburg Middle School won first place in biological science as well as an award from the Blacksburg branch of the American Association of University Women.

Lane McBride, Carroll County Intermediate School, was first in physical science. McBride and Nagarkatti also shared honors as co-winners of the annual Todd Cassell Memorial Award.

Junior division team winners were all from Chilhowie Middle School: Justin Frye and Will Johnston, biological; and Trevor Blevins and Nicholas White, physical. Blevins and White also took the special award from the American Meteorological Society.

Other special awards included:

The American Meteorological Society Award and a NASA Award to Justin Gates, Marion Middle School; American Association of University Women, Blacksburg branch, an Eastman Kodak Co. Award, a U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Science Award, and a Virginia Tech Award, all to Lori Lyons, Auburn High School; American Association of University Women, Wytheville branch, and a NASA Award, both to Mary Ann Scott, Rural Retreat High School; a Carolina-Virginia Institute of Food Technologist Award to Earl Johnson, Carroll County High School; a NASA Award to Andrew Weeks, Floyd County High School; National Association of Biology Teachers Award to Sarah Wilson, Rural Retreat High School; National Association of Corrosion Engineers Award to Justin Frye and Will Johnston, Chilhowie Middle School; New River Community College Award to Heather King, Pulaski County High School; U.S. Army Awards to Christopher Sumner and Carrie McConnell, Pulaski County High School, and Brian Sprinkle, Marion Senior High School; Virginia Junior Academy of Science Award to Amy Turman, Carroll County High School; and the Virginia Tech Center for Biotechnology Award to Anthony Yoder, Pulaski County High School.

The fair is sponsored by Wytheville and New River Community Colleges.

by CNB