Presbyterian School Students Win Award From Science and Engineering Fair

Two Presbyterian School middle school students won special awards from the 2010 Science and Engineering Fair of Houston. 

Eighth graders, Monica Bueso and Christy Jacobs received awards from the Gulf Coast Environmental Affairs Group and Mothers For Clean Air for their project “Stop The Contribution To Air pollution.”

Their science project was focused on testing the air quality in Houston at varying distances from a major highway.

The Science and Engineering Fair gives students a chance to apply principals of math and science that are learned in the classroom to a problem that they find interesting. The scientific method is applied as students research, hypothesize, design and carry an experiment to test their hypothesis.  After analyzing their data students present their findings to professionals with experience in the field of their project.

Fifteen other Presbyterian School seventh and eighth grade students participated in the fair along with more than 1,400 other students from Harris County and 23 surrounding counties. The other 15 students are: Mary Evans Atwell, Harrison Bingham, Jacqueline Buskop, Annie Cherner, Laurence Clarke, Ford Collier, Peter Cordill, Kirby Cuenod, Kirsten Dobson, Arin Drtil, Wylie Geibel, Quinn McLean, Austin Peters, Madison Silver and Kendall Thompson.