Tuesday, March 22, 2022

MSSU to hold Regional Science Fair

 (From Southern News Service)

The 33rd annual Missouri Southern Regional Science Fair is set for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Billingsly Student Center’s Connor Ballroom.

The competition for high-school and middle-school students is affiliated with the Society for Science and the Public. Individual and team entries have been accepted from 48 students in the junior category (grades 5-8) and 11 in the senior category (grades 9-12). 








The competition is open to students in the following counties: Vernon, Barton, Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Barry, Lawrence, Cedar, Dade and St. Clair in Missouri; and Neosho, Crawford, Montgomery, Labette, Bourbon and Cherokee in Kansas.

Categories include behavioral and social sciences; cell, molecular, and microbiology; chemistry and biochemistry; computer science, engineering, and mathematics; earth and environmental sciences; human and animal sciences; physics and astronomy; and plant sciences.

Students are also eligible to enter presentations in the Missouri Junior Academy of Science. Those presentations will be offered from 1 to 2 p.m. in Rooms 111, 204 and 225 of Reynolds Hall.

An awards ceremony for both the Regional Science Fair and Missouri Junior Academy of Science will be held at 4 p.m. in Plaster Hall’s Cornell Auditorium. Special awards – including cash prizes – will be offered by a variety of sponsors.

Winners will be eligible to participate in the state competition to be held April 22-23 at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo.

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