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San Bernardino County Students Win Top Honors At Science Fair

2009-04-16

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County students swept the top three individual honors at the 27th annual Inland Science and Engineering Fair on April 14-15 for the four-county region.

They were among a total of 27 students from the county whose projects advanced to the California State Science Fair, which will be held in Los Angeles on May 18-19.

The individual Sweepstakes Award winners from the county were:

Elementary Division: Garrett Dotson, fifth-grader at Ridgeview Elementary in the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District; Project: "Water on Fire;"

Junior Division: Michael Monaghan, eighth-grader at St. Adelaide Catholic School in San Bernardino; Project: "Is the C or Assembly Language Better for Programming PIC Microcontrollers?"

Senior Division: Brenton Keller and Joseph Behjat, seniors at Upland High School in Upland Unified; Project "Sound Effects."

More than 750 projects from students in Riverside, Inyo, Mono and San Bernardino counties participated in the event at the National Orange Show in three divisions: Elementary (fourth- and fifth-graders), Junior (sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders) and Senior (9th- through 12th-graders). Only projects in the Junior and Senior divisions were eligible to advance to the state competition.

Individual and group projects were judged in 19 categories of science - from microbiology to zoology, math and physics to electronics, and consumer sciences to earth sciences.

The regional fair is sponsored by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, Riverside County Office of Education, Inyo County Office of Education and Mono County Superintendent of Schools.

2009 San Bernardino County State Science Fair Qualifiers

Adelanto School District
Kaylina Jacuinde, Columbia Middle

Apple Valley Unified
Wardah Bari, Apple Valley High
Cameron Geiger, Sitting Bull Middle
Krissa Lindsay, Vanguard Prep

Chino Valley Unified
Eugene Laksana, Townsend Junior High

Colton Joint Unified
Eduardo Cabrera, Bloomington Middle
Danielle Monahan, Colton High

Fontana Unified
Bryon Scott, Almeria Middle

Redlands Unified
Taylor Davis, Moore Middle
Joanna Eskander, Moore Middle
Michael Janner, Moore Middle
Phillip Lucero, Moore Middle

Rialto Unified
Kevin Jordan, Carter High
Alexander Padilla, Carter High
Leonard Tampkins, Carter High

Snowline Joint Unified
Steven Park, Heritage Elementary

Upland Unified
Joseph Behjat, Upland High
Andrew Chen, Upland High
Natalie Chen, Upland High
Brenton Keller, Upland High
Randall Lin, Upland High
Sanjana Marpadga, Upland High
Trenton Ramos, Upland High

Private schools
Grace Ali, Rodriguez Prep
Joseph Monaghan, St. Adelaide
Michael Monaghan, St. Adelaide
Timothy Westerfield, Redlands Christian