The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, March 30, 1996               TAG: 9603300280
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   19 lines

SCIENTIFIC FLIGHTS OF FANCY

ILLUSTRATION: Color photo by ROBIE RAY/The Virginian-Pilot

Robert Theodorakis, a third-grader at Riverview Elementary School in

Murfreesboro, demonstrates his science project at the 1996

Northeastern Regional Science Fair at the Vaughan Center at

Elizabeth City State University on Friday. His project explored the

theory that the farther a rubber band is stretched, the farther a

paper plane will fly.

by CNB