Plano
Students Earn Impressive Secondary Science Fair Awards
March 18, 2005
Congratulations to the winners of the Plano ISD Secondary
District Science Fair held on
March 16 at Plano Centre and at the 48th Annual "Dallas
Morning News"-Toyota Regional Science Fair held March
19 in Dallas.
State Science & Engineering Fair
April 8, 2005 - Congratulations to students participating in the
Texas State Science and Engineering Fair held in San
Antonio on April 2. The students (pictured below at
the fair) did extremely well, with 21 students receiving awards
after competing against students from across the state.
Congratulations to Gabriel Ha from Jasper High School
who placed in a top honor as a Grand Prize Finalist
in the senior division.
Junior and Senior
Division Winners (7k)
Dallas Morning News-Toytota
Regional Secondary Science Fair
Congratulations to the seventh through 12th grade students who placed
at the Dallas Morning News-Toyota Regional Science
Fair. The fair was held Saturday March 19 at Fair Park.
Plano students were awarded three of four Grand
Prize awards in the Junior Division and all four Grand
Prizes at the Senior Division. Many students from all
secondary campuses won Special
Awards and Honorable Mentions.
 The full list of prizes
can be seen in the March 20, Sunday metro section of
the paper or at the Regional
Science Fair Web site.
Following the list of grand prize winners are two
links containing the junior and senior division
winners.
Because of the outstanding showing for 1st - 3rd place,
66 students qualify to attend The Exxon Mobil
State Science Fair to be held in San Antonio March
31-April 2.
The senior Grand Prize winners will attend the International
Science and Engineering Fair in May to compete with
more than 50 nations. Also to attend the
International Fair are the first place winners in the "team" category.
Grand Prize
Junior
Steven Yan - Wilson Middle School
Joshi Hrishikesh - Wilson Middle School
David Lehman - Hendrick Middle School
Senior
Jimmy Yang - PSHS
Arhana Chattopadhyay - Clark HS
Enhao Li - PWSHS
Daniel Wang - Jasper HS
Team Life qualifying for ISEF
Perry Mullins, Brian Stelly, Eric Kauffman - Williams
HS
Team Physical Sciences qualifying for ISEF
Stephanie
Stoughton and Michael Wu - Shepton
Secondary District Science Fair
From the approximately 300 fair entries in the Plano ISD Secondary
District Science Fair held in March, students captured
numerous awards, including grand prize, first, second
and third place and honorable mention awards.
"The judges enthusiastically
expressed to me that the projects were excellent and
the behavior of the students exemplary," noted Linda
Flack, secondary science coordinator. "Students will
be attending the Dallas Morning News Toyota Regional
Science Fair March 18 weekend. District science fair awards
lists follow.
Grand Prize Winners
- Amanda Lu - Robinson Middle School "Got Milk? Get Fruit? The Effect
Of Fruit On Hydrolyzing Lactose in Milk"
- Mimi Liu -
Clark High School "It's All
Your Fault!" (study on limiting the intensity
of earthquakes)
U.S. Navy Special Awards
- Kerry Wang - Jasper High School "Pure Pwange:
Only Virtual? A Study on Human Spatial Awareness "
- Aleem Qureshi -Williams
High School, Desalination, Which Method is the Best
- Charlie
Manion -Jasper High school, "Don't Get Wet!" Construction
and Testing of an Inexpensive Submersible
Remotely Operated Vehicle with Video Camera
- Madelyn
Morgan -Murphy Middle School, "Does the Color of Food
Affect if People Will Eat it?"
- Blake Fisher - Rice
Middle School, " Can You Hear Me Now?"
- Andrew Mahre -Wilson
Middle School, "Of CORse, Temperature Matters!"
Collin County Community College
Scholarship Certificates
- Stephanie
Stoughton and Michael Wu - Shepton High School
"A Simple Answer
Just Isn't Probable: A study of Uncertainty's
Effect of the Development of Complexity in Cellular
Automata"
- Lanka Theja - Clark High School,
"RFID: The New Wave"
- Osbert Bastani and Jonathan
Yu - Jasper High School "Use
of Electromagnetics in Futuristic Transportation"
- Kathleen
Chu - Shepton High School, "From Sunrise to Sunset;
A Fourth Year
Study"
Science Fair Prizes
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