Montana Tech Regional Science & Engineering Fair

The Montana Tech Regional Science and Engineering Fair was held.  Seventy-eight students from eight high schools competed.  The candle-light award ceremony was held in the campus Mill Building.  Fifty-six special awards, most sponsored by community businesses, non-profits, and academic departments from the college were awarded.  The trophy for top performing high school was awarded to Big Sky High School.  Big Sky students who earned 5 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze medals.  The trophy for second place top performing high school was earned by Butte High. 

The fair, is sponsored by Montana Tech, The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, Northwestern Energy, REC, PPL Montana, Montana Orthopedics, Silver bow Medical Society, Glenn McLaughlin, M.D., Knight, Dahood, Everett, Sievers & Dahood, Montana Western Mental Health, and Health Link Physical Therapy.  Funding from the sponsors allows the fair to provide the overall winners with an all expense paid trip to compete at the International Science And Engineering Fair to be held next month in San Jose, CA.  The overall winners are; Emilee Williams  and Jessica Stevens from Sentinel High School for their project Effects of PETE Plastic on Common Goldfish; Will Wright from Belgrade High School for his project The Next Generation Locomotive, and Rodolfo Villarreal-Calderon from Big Sky High School for his project Myocardial Inflammation in Young Adults Exposed to Air Pollution.

The Montana Tech Silver Access Award, a scholarship valued at approximately $4,500, was awarded to Luke VonLanken from Sentinel High School for his project The Effects of Milltown Dam Removal on MacroInvertebrate Populations in the Clark Fork River

For a downloadable version of the full fair results click here.