Overall awards in the high school division included First

Place, Use of Periwinkles to Investigate Yellow Aster Phytoplasm

Subterranean Termite Patriarch Leak Mitochondria DNA to Progeny?, by

Diana Chang, Fayette County; Third Place, How Cell Structure Affects

a Bacteria's Response to Hot Water by Tony Hung, McIntosh;

and Fourth Place, Does Orange Juice Lose Vitamin C Over Time?,

Winners in the Fayette Clean and Beautiful Category

included: Wetlands Water Analysis by Robert Huefner, Michael Condon

and Ben Lorber, J.C. Booth Middle; Will Swamp Mud, Gravel or

Sand Work Best to Filter Dirty Water?, by Robyn Schultz, Rising

Starr Middle.

The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics

Association Award went to How Surface Affects Acceleration by Tori

Fratto, J.C. Booth.

Students advancing with their projects to the regional

competition include Jordan Worrall and Michelle Ellenburg of J.C.

Booth Middle School with How Clean is Clean; Tori Fratto and Shirley

Li, both from J.C. Booth; Bill Boyett, Fred Gibson and

Elliott McCaskill of Rising Starr; Kran Valiani, Rising Starr,

Kevin Erickson, Sandy Creek; Tony Hung, McIntosh, Diana

Chang, Fayette County; Sammy Chang, Starr's Mill; Monitoring

Hydroponics and Nutrient Deficiencies by Lynn Belshause, Fayette

County; Does Rap or Classical Add Up?, by John Barson,

Daniel Berschinski and Joey McCoy, McIntosh; RMS Titanic,

Kathryn Bradshaw, McIntosh; Does the Organism That Causes TB

Have Known DNA Plasmid?, by Jessica King, Fayette County; and

Balls of Steel, Lance Dutton, Fayette County.

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