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 310 District Students Honored at County Science Fair
 Pershing Middle School Leads Pack With 115 Winners
April 2, 2007

Lead by a sweepstakes winner from Patrick Henry High School and 115 awardees from Pershing Middle School, 310 students from San Diego Unified received awards in the recent Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair.

A total of 356 awards were given to district students, with some projects receiving honors in several categories, according to figures released by the Science Fair.

Sara Silverstein, a senior from Patrick Henry High in San Carlos, was one of four winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Sweepstakes. She and her project, which studied the stress levels experienced by dental school students, will be in Albuquerque May 13-19 for the 57th annual competition.

Other special award winners included: Thomas Witowski, an eighth grader at Correia Middle School in Point Loma; Anna Simpson, a freshman at Patrick Henry; eighth grader Darren Critchlow from Marshall Middle School in Scripps Ranch; Rui Jin, a Scripps Ranch High School sophomore; and seventh grader Garrett Dudley of Pershing Middle School in San Carlos.

More than 830 projects were entered in the 53rd annual local competition, held in Balboa Park.

Pershing lead all campuses with 115 awardees. Other campuses with multiple winners included Correia with 39, Wangenheim Middle School in Mira Mesa with 27, and 19 for La Jolla’s Muirlands Junior High.

Projects from the San Diego fair can also qualify for entry into the California State Science Fair, May 22-25, in Los Angeles. Students from San Diego Unified took 38 of the 102 slots given to schools in San Diego County.

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