Publisher Hosts Web Science Fair

LOGAL Software, developer of science and math software for high school and college, is hosting a Global Science Fair for educators and students. Visitors to the firm's Home Page (www.logal.com) can win software, "probeware" and cash. Prizes are awarded to the best educational activities designed with the LOGAL Microcomputer-Based Lab, laboratory probes and biology, chemistry or physics software. Deadline for entries is May 31, 1996, with winners announced in June. The firm's Web site also allows educators to download and share classroom-tested activities, find information on new products and services, obtain answers to common questions, and request catalogs. LOGAL Software, Inc., Cambridge, MA, (800) LOGAL-US.

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