Anjuli Byrd, a Burlington native who graduated from Hunt Middle School and who is currently a freshman at Burlington High School, was awarded a scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers to attend the United States Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama in August 2005. To be eligible, Anjuli participated in the Vermont State Science & Math Fair held in April 2005 at Norwich University. Anjuli's Science Fair Team submitted a group project and claimed two prizes: the Green Mountain Water Environment Association Award and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Award, both for outstanding Water Quality Project for their Science Fair project entitled "Garbage in Lake Champlain". To learn more about the SWE Space Camp Scholarship requirements, click on the SWE gear logo on the previous webpage.

The guest speaker this year at the VSSMF Awards ceremony will be Karen Hinkle, Assistant Professor of Biology at Norwich University. She and her students are conducting nationally-funded research on the sequential activation of genes in the parietal and chief cells of the gastric gland during development in utero. If anyone can make stomach acid fascinating, Dr. Hinkle can!

The new Sullivan Museum and History Center will be the focal point for students and parents to meet with representatives from a number of Vermont universities to inquire about their STEM programs. In addition, there will be displays by all four STEM museums in Vermont: ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Montshire Museum, Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, and American Precision Museum. Teachers, parents, and students without projects can visit the exhibits between 9:00am and 1:30pm. Science fair participants can visit during lunch.

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