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ExploraVision Science Competition Regional Winners Named

by Dave Nagel

More than 4,500 student teams submitted projects for the 2008 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards Program, an annual K-12 science competition. Twenty-four of them were named regional winners in the science competition this week.

The ExploraVision competition, sponsored by Toshiba and administered by the National Science Teachers Association, pulls together students in teams of two to four, along with a coach and optional mentor, to choose a technology that's currently in use and explore what the technology does and how it came about; then the teams imagine the possibilities of what that technology could be like 20 years from now and what problems it could solve that it doesn't solve now.

This year's competition--the 16th-annual ExploraVision program--received 4,527 team entries, representing 14,042 students throughout the United States and Canada. Regional, phase 1 winners received a Toshiba laptop and software for their schools.

Winners from Region 1 included:

  • Grade K-3: The Pet Dream Automatic Pet Door and Tattoo Pen
    George L Cooke School; Monticello, NY
  • Grade 7-9: Synthetic Spider Silk Bulletproof Vests
    Edgemont Jr Sr High School; Scarsdale, NY
  • Grade 4-6: Chatter Box
    Country Day School of the Holy Union; Groton, MA
  • Grade 10-12: CONNECT: Creation of New Nerve-Ending Connection Technologies
    Champlain Valley Union High School; Hinesburg, VT

Winners from Region 2 included:

  • Grade K-3: Flavoring Machine
    Broadneck Elementary; Arnold, MD
  • Grade 4-6: T.H.E. Shelter (Temporary Housing Emergency)
    Malcolm Elementary; Waldorf, MD
  • Grade 7-9: Tower Turbine
    McLean High School; McLean, VA
  • Grade 10-12: TRAIL–Stimulating Transcription Factor (TSTF)
    Northside High School; Roanoke, VA

Winners from Region 3 included:

  • Grade K-3: Stethoscope 1000
    Rachel Freeman School of Engineering; Wilmington, NC
  • Grade 4-6: Holo(edu)graphy
    Greenfield Hebrew Academy; Atlanta, GA
  • Grade 7-9: Micro-Fiber Nerve and Muscle Activator
    Sola Fidelis Symposium (Homeschool); Augusta, GA
  • Grade 10-12: CHIRP: Circuit for Enhanced In-Vivo Regulated Bioplastics Production
    North Carolina School of Science and Math; Durham, NC

Winners from Region 4 included: