MSSU News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2008
Dr. Michael Garoutte
Director, MSRSF
(417) 625-9748 - Honors
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JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - The 19th Annual Missouri Southern Regional Science Fair (MSRSF) will be held April 1-3 on the third floor of the Billingsly Student Center at Missouri Southern State University.

Individual projects are accepted from students in the following counties: Vernon, Barton, Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Barry, Lawrence, Cedar and Dade counties in Missouri and Neosho, Crawford, Montgomery, Labette, Bourbon and Cherokee counties in Kansas.

More than 150 area students in grades 5-12 from 15 regional school districts will be present at their projects for judging Tuesday evening, April 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Public viewing of the exhibits will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday April 2 and 3. Winners for both the Junior and Senior divisions will be announced at an awards presentation at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3.

Dr. Michael Garoutte and Dr. Marsi Archer of the MSSU Physical Science Department, will conduct the ceremony in Anderson Auditorium in the Mills Anderson Justice Center on the MSSU campus.

Winners in the eight senior division categories can receive a scholarship covering tuition for one semester at Missouri Southern. This scholarship is renewable for another semester with a minimum GPA. There are numerous other cash prizes and special awards.

Two individual grand prizewinners will advance to compete with approximately 1,200 other high school students from more than 40 countries for over $2 million in awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to be held in Atlanta, Georgia from May 11-16, 2008.

The Intel ISEF is considered the “Olympics” or “World Cup World Series” of science fairs. Organized each year by the Society for Science & the Public (formerly Science Service, Inc.), the ISEF is the world’s only international science fair representing all sciences for students in grades 9 through 12.

For more information on the Intel ISEF visit the following websites:

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