ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 14, 1996 TAG: 9604150005
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-22 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: DUBLIN
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
Pulaski County High School junior Amanda Alley got her idea for a zoology science project from magazine articles suggesting that garlic may inhibit the development of cancer.
"Everybody thinks, garlic, it makes your breath smell bad and all that stuff," she told the board Tuesday at the Southwest Virginia Governor's School, where she is a half-day student.
But her project on how garlic affects tumors on generations of fruit flies not only confirmed that the numbers were reduced but won her a trip to Tucson, Ariz., May 6-10 to present her project at the annual International Science and Engineering Fair.
She will go with Shannon Hughes, a Carroll County High School senior whose physics project has the impressive title of "A Laser Analysis of the Reflection of a Black Body Radiator as a Function of System Temperature."
Their projects were grand-award winners at the annual Blue Ridge Highlands Regional Science Fair held last weekend at New River Community College.
Brian Newman, a senior at Fort Chiswell High School in Wythe County, was the alternate grand award winner for his chemistry project, "Purification and Separation of Carbon Fullerenes." He will make the trip to Tucson if either of the grand award winners is unable to go.
All three are also eligible to go to Arlington next weekend as first-place winners in their categories. So are Jeffiner Whipple, Grayson County, 1st place in behavioral and social sciences; Kristin Ayers, Carroll, biochemistry; Ben Hatch, Carroll, botany; Erik Branson, Wythe, computer science; Kelly Seaton, Dayspring Christian Academy, earth and space science; Shane Moses, Pulaski, engineering; Jennifer Sharp, Floyd, environmental science; Jennifer Davis, Carroll; Amit Chafee, Galax, mathematics; Sabrina Kramer, Wythe, medicine and health; and Stephen Collins, Wythe, microbiology.
Team 1st-place winners were Shane Harris, Brian Jackson and Jackey McVey, Northwood High School in Smyth.
Special award winners at the fair included Johanna Neumann, Floyd, and Hughes, American Association of University Women Blacksburg Chapter Award, and Sarah Ayers and Kristin Ayers, both Carroll, the AAUW Wytheville Chapter Award; Newman, American Chemical Society Blue Ridge Chapter Award; Graham Fizer, Pulaski, and Alanna Underwood, Grayson, American Meteorological Society Awards; Charles Hagedorn, Blacksburg, Eastman Kodak Co. Award; Megan Mansell, Pulaski, Association of Women Geoscientists Award; Courtney Peek, Pulaski, $1,000 Emory & Henry College Science Achievement Award; Will Johnston, Chilhowie, National Association of Corrosion Engineers; Jodie Parnell, Carroll, New River Community College scholarship; Sharp, a $600 microscope from Carolina Biological Supply Co.; Moses, both the Junior Engineering Technical Society Award and the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award and Medallion; Chris Phelan, Wythe County, a $100 Savings Bond Southwest Virginia Advanced Manufacturing Center Award; Alley, a $200 Virginia Junior Academy of Science Award; Newman, a $500 Virginia Tech scholarship; Amy Turman, Carroll, Wytheville Community College scholarship, and Pam Morse, Giles County, Virginia Tech Center for Microbiology Award.
Todd Cassell Memorial Awards went to Laura Johnson and Nancy Gates, Saint Paul; Nisha Nagarkatti, Blacksburg, and Hayden Hill, Dayspring Christian Academy.
U.S. Air Force Awards went to Branson, Moses, Nagarkatti and Hill; U.S. Army Awards to Mansell, Morse, Ashley Alley and Seng Lui, Pulaski, and David Woods, Galax; and U.S. Navy/Marine Corps Distinguished Achievement Awards of Sharp graphing calculators to Newman, Hughes, Kelly Seaton, Dayspring Christian Academy, and Armistead Booker, Pulaski.
Top Junior Division winners included Laura Johnson, Saint Paul, biological science; Gates, physical science; Nagarkatti, biological science; Kristen Blankenbeckler, Chilhowie, physical science, and Whitney Bonham and Courtney Collins, Chilhowie, team division.
Nearly 250 students participated in this year's Science Fair. Grand Award sponsors were Morton Powder Coatings, Wytheville; Alliant Techsystems, Radford, and Bell Atlantic, Roanoke.
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