Science students compete at region

Science students

compete at region

Twenty-four Fayette County

students are taking 17 science projects to the next level today.

Having won at the system level

science fair Jan. 30, the students have advanced to the Regional Science

and Engineering Fair at Griffin.

Ninety projects from middle

and high schools were involved in the county fair.

First place winners today will

advance to state competition at the University of Georgia April 5 - 7,

and the top two finishers will attend the International Science and Engineering

Fair May 6 -12 in San Jose, Calif.

Top two finishers at the state

fair also will be entered in the international fair.

Representing Fayette County

in today's competition are Melinda Murray, Chad Cross and the team of

Brett Haynie and Phillip Strickland, of Starr's Mill High School; Brian

Johns and Daniel Jury of Sandy Creek High; Rebecca Timmis, Tony Hung and

the Megan Bartels/Laura Gibbes team of McIntosh High; Jessica King, Joel

Siegel and the team of Daniel Anderson and Natalie Amoroso of Fayette

County High; Aaron Kirschner, Jade Briggs, the team of Michael Sanders,

Drew Johnson and Phillip Sims, the team of Matt Alberts and Danny Giglio,

and the Brandon Knowles/Matt Collins team, all of Flat Rock Middle School;

and Lindsey Gunter of Fayette Middle.