Texas Students Honored at 2010 ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair

April 12th, 2010

SAN ANTONIO, Apr 12, 2010 — Winners Announced for 24th Annual Statewide Science Competition

–ExxonMobil is Title Sponsor for 10th Year, Contributing $75,000

–Hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas Science Careers Consortium

Two hundred twenty students were awarded today with highest honors at the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair, a four-day competition that brings together top science fair winners from across the state. Best of Fair awards, presented to the top contestants in the junior and senior divisions, were presented to Carlos Rivero-Lopez of Sugar Land, Texas and Amy Chyao of Plano, Texas.

Students competed in two divisions — junior (grades six through eight) and senior (grades nine through 12) — in one of 19 categories at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Selected from more than 1,100 entries, awards were given to first through fourth place winners in each category, and Grand Prize and Best in Fair projects in each division. Senior division Grand Prize winners received all-expense paid trips to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair May 9–14 in San Jose, Calif. The top 10 percent of competitors in the junior division qualified to participate in the Discovery Channel Young Scientists Challenge. Read the rest of this entry »

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