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Show High school students to attend international fair CEDAR CITY -Students from Dixie, Hurricane and Delta High schools will attend the International Science and Engineering Fair May 10-15 in Houston, Texas, as winners of the Southern Utah Regional Science Fair conducted last week Southern Utah State College. The six winning experiments ex-periments were selected from the 244 science projects entered in the regional contest by junior and senior high school students from Utah and ! Arizona schools. j "Sweepstakes honors j were won again this year by students from Dixie junior and senior high schools," said fair director Brent C. Palmer, professor of botany at SUSC. "The fair was so large with over 30 more experiments than last year that exhibits were divided between the SUSC Student Center and War Memorial Fieldhouse." "SUSC has hosted the science fair for ten years now," Palmer said. "We are very pleased with the student participation in the regional contest and with the quality and wide variety of scientific work completed by students at their respective schools." "Many, many hours of work go into the experiments," ex-periments," he said, "and the students and their teachers are to be highly commended for their s interest in and dedication to scientific research." The six trip winners were announced, and many additional honors conferred, at an awards assembly at the conclusion con-clusion of the day-long confab. Special awards made in honor of SUSC's 10th anniversary as fair host went to long-time fair contributors Dr. John L. Seymour, Dr. J. Garth Chatterley, Dr. Roger Williams, Dr. Reuben Jones, and Jon Bridge Bridwater. Among the awards given were full-tuition SUSC scholarships to Dixie High School seniors Marie Christian and Walt P. Jones. The scholarships scholar-ships are for the 1982-83 school year. |