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Lynn Reeve and Allison Gale, Savannah Country Day School, won the grand prize with their project, "The Allelopathic Effect of Marsh Plants on Four Monotyledon and Dicotyledon Species."	Scott Helmreich, Savannah Country Day School, is the grand prize runner up with his project, "Battery Performance Analysis: NiMH vs NiCD."
Mary-Kerstin Lindquist, St Peter the Apostle School, won the grand prize in the junior division with her project, "The Rate of Grass Coverage."

AASU Hosts the Savannah-Ogeechee District Science and Engineering Fair

SAVANNAH, GA—Armstrong Atlantic State University's Department of Chemistry hosted the Savannah-Ogeechee District Science and Engineering Fair. This year, 235 students from thirty-five middle and high schools in Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Bryan, Long, and Bulloch counties participated in the fair.

The fair is a learning experience that "helps young people learn how to isolate important problems and how to attack and hopefully solve problems within the framework of organized, logical thought and study," said Heather Merbs, science fair coordinator and environmental education teacher at Oatland Island Education Center.

The fair provides a forum for teachers, academic and industrial scientists and engineers, and other community members "to come together and encourage students to explore and investigate their world through hands-on research," said Merbs.

The students with the most outstanding projects at their school science fair were selected to represent the school in the competition. There were several project categories, such as botany, computer science, and engineering. Students with the best projects were awarded ribbons for excellence, with forty projects chosen to represent our region at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair in Athens. Two projects were chosen to attend the fifty-third International Science and Engineering Fair that will be held in Louisville, Kentucky.

The State Fair Finalists are as follows:

Meta Adler	Savannah Country Day School
Colin Agnew	Savannah Arts Academy
Jeremy Akin	DeRenne Middle School
Kelly Anchors	Jenkins High School
Frank Arden	Savannah Country Day School
Alex Brennan	Savannah Country Day School
Jenna Brinson	Savannah Arts Academy
Nicholas Bushkus	Savannah Arts academy
Charles Byrd	Savannah Country Day School
Kika Caparisos	Savannah Country Day School
John Coburn	Jenkins High School
Travis Coles	Richmond Hill High School
Kerilyn Daniel	Savannah Country Day School
Lydia DePue	Savannah Christian Prep School
Allison Gale	Savannah Country Day School
Grier Gardner	Savannah Country Day School
Ryan Gentes	Savannah Country Day School
Terri Gordon	Savannah Country Day School
Patrick Grace	Savannah Country Day School
Andrew Hardigan	Savannah Country Day School
Trevor Hardigan	Savannah Country Day School
Scott Helmreich	Savannah Country Day School
Timothy Hillard	Savannah Country Day School
Jeffrey Holloman	Jenkins High School
Gregory Howe	Savannah Country Day School
Maria Joyner	Savannah Arts Academy
James Krueger	Jenkins High School
May-Kerstin Lindquist	St. Peter the Apostle School
Emily Long	Savannah Country Day School
Kathleen MacPherson-Bailey	Savannah Arts Academy
John Marshall	William James Middle School
Sarah Morley	Savannah Arts Academy
Harry Portman	Savannah Country Day School
Lyn Reeve	Savannah Country Day School
Rose Sadler	Savannah Country Day School
Taqwaa Saleem	Jenkins High School
Hanfei Sun	Jenkins High School
Stuart Terrett	Jenkins High School
Catherine Tomberlin	Calvary Baptist Day School
Amy Vogelsang	DeRenne Middle School
Jon Waters	William James Middle School
Jessie Williams	Jenkins High School
YanJia Yao	Jenkins High School
Christopher Yarbrough	St. Peter the Apostle School
Adeeb Zaer	Jenkins High School
Angelica Zhang	Jenkins High School

State Fair Alternates are as follows:

Carne Barfield	Savannah Country Day School
Kelsy Chandler	St. Peter the Apostle School
Ashley Davis	Savannah Arts Academy
Rachel Hodge	Savannah Arts Academy
Cory Isaacson	Savannah Country Day School
Helen Patterson	St. Peter the Apostle School

April 2, 2002

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