NEWS RELEASE FROM MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY

Missouri Southern to host 25th annual Regional Science Fair

Joplin, MO (SNS) The 25th annual Missouri Southern Regional Science Fair will be held Tuesday, March 25, in the third floor ballroom of Billingsly Student Center at Missouri Southern State University.

The competition for high school and middle school students is affiliated with the Society for Science and the Public. Individual (not team) projects are accepted from students in the following counties: Vernon, Barton, Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Barry, Lawrence, Cedar and Dade in Missouri; Neosho, Crawford, Montgomery, Labette, Bourbon and Cherokee in Kansas.

This years fair will include entries from 103 students in the junior category (grades 5-8) and 37 in the senior category (grades 9-12) from Bronaugh, Liberal, Seneca, Joplin, Carthage, Carl Junction and Aurora. Categories include behavioral science; cell, molecular and microbiology; chemistry and biochemistry; computer science, engineering and math; Earth and environmental science; human and animal science; physics and astronomy; and plant science.

Closed judging will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with public viewing from 1 to 5 p.m.

Science activities including sessions on static and current electricity, extraction of DNA from strawberries, performing EMGs and liquid nitrogen ice cream will be offered from 1 to 3:45 p.m. in Reynolds Hall. Students who attend three activities will have their name placed in a drawing for iTunes gift cards.

An awards ceremony will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Webster Halls Corley Auditorium.

First-place winners will receive a scholarship to Missouri Southern (graduating high-school seniors in the senior division), or a cash prize (for the junior division and all others in the senior division). Grand prize winners (two senior division and two junior) will also receive cash prizes. The two senior grand prize winners will also receive an all-expense paid trip to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, to be held May 11-16 in Los Angeles, Calif.

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