More than 150 participants from 35 area public, private and home-schools participated in the Savannah Ogeechee Regional Science and Engineering Fair (SOREF) held last week in Armstrong Atlantic State University’s (AASU).  Several winning SCCPSS students took home awards and all first place recipients will go on to compete in the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair in Athens on April 2-5, 2008.  

Each student brought out their winning projects from their own school-level competitions to be judged in junior and senior divisions by community volunteers.  Sixth through twelfth graders were interviewed as judges reviewed projects ranging from Behavioral/Social Sciences to Zoology. The event capped off with an awards ceremony in which all of the students listed below received special awards, some of which will advance to the state competition:

2008 SCCPSS SORSEF Winners
Name	School/Category	Division
*Colin Williams	Charles Ellis Montessori	Junior
*Kristen Horton	Coastal Middle School	Junior
Tyler Jacobs	Mercer Middle School	Junior
Neal Kaviratna	DeRenne Middle School	Junior
*Eric Lau	DeRenne Middle School	Junior
Wolfgang Whitney-Hul	DeRenne Middle School	Junior
*Caitlyn Cobb	Southwest Middle School	Junior
Scarlett Vick	Southwest Middle School	Junior
*Albert McGraw	Johnson High School	Senior
*Michael Hill	Johnson High School	Senior
*Andrew Tran	Johnson High School	Senior
*Martin Joubert	Johnson High School	Senior
*Samantha Trulove	Johnson High School	Senior
*Vincent Tran	Johnson High School	Senior
*Ally Priestley	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
*Rebecca Cross	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
Mercedes Del La Sierra	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
*Amelia Joyner	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
*Lily Kim	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
Caitlin Long	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
*Marcel Williams	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
*Victoria McConnell	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
Kathryn Thomas	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
*Samantha Worsham	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
Sami Muhanna	Savannah Arts Academy	Senior
Stephen Brush	Windsor Forest High	Senior

*Represents the students who will advance to the state competition

Marcel Williams of Savannah Arts Academy received the grand prize award for the senior division and will compete in Atlanta in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in May.   Eric Lau of DeRenne Middle School also took home the grand prize award for the junior division.