CARSEF

<body> <div style="position:relative;width:865px;height:1432px;-adbe-g:p;"> <div style="position:absolute;top:208px;left:192px;width:672px;height:944px;-adbe-c:c"> <div align="center"> <h1><font color="#cc6633">CARSEF, The Winners!</font></h1> <h2><font color="#cc6633">by Gloria McConnell</font></h2> <h3 align="left"><font color="#cc6633">EXPLORERS (4th - 6th grade)</font></h3> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">Third:</font> Ajay Karpur/Kyrene del Pueblo Middle School: "Sweeteners: The Effects on Plant Growth"<br /> </p> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">Second:</font> Conner Wareing/Pima Elementary: "Non-Verbal Communication through Eye Movements and Gender Influences, or Does Gender Make a Difference?"</p> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">First:</font> Jonny Woodbury/Homeschooled: "The Efficient and Powerful Trebuchet: Optimizing the Design of a Trebuchet Catapult Using the Scientific Method and Experiential Design"</p> <h3 align="left"><font color="#cc6633">INVESTIGATORS (7th - 8th grade)</font></h3> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">Third:</font> Alison Bailey, Tina Cai, Caitlyn DeSola/Pueblo Middle School: "Friction Addiction"</p> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">Second:</font> Rebecca Woodbury/Homeschooled: "Which Vegetable Oil has the Most Energy? The Development and Use of a Method for Determining the Energy Content of Vegetable Oils"</p> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">First:</font> Brianna Giles and Bailey Rukvina/Pope John XXIII Elementary School: "Can you see... Vitamin C? Determination of the Amount of Ascorbic Acid by a Chemical Process of Titration"</p> <h3 align="left"><font color="#cc6633">SENIORS (9th - 12th grade) </font></h3> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">Third:</font> James Harris/Thunderbird High School: "Heart Rate Response to Lifting Different Masses"<br /> </p> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">Second:</font> Veronica Shi and Raza Mushtaq/Corona del Sol High School: "Phosphorus Levels and Growth Rates in African and European Honeybees"</p> <p align="left"><font color="#cc6633">First:</font> Kevan Christensen/Corona del Sol High School: "GIS-based Approach to Hydrology and Landscape Complexity in the San Pedro River Riparian Corridor, Arizona</p> <hr size="1" /> <h3 align="left"><font color="#cc6633">FASCINATING FACTS</font></h3> <p align="left">The keynote speaker at the CARSEF awards ceremony was a principal engineer from Intel. He provided some very interesting facts...</p> </div> <div align="left"> <ul> <li> <p>In the scientific community, the generally accepted age of the earth is 4.5 billion years. To try to understand that number, consider all that has occurred in the last 1350 years of our civilization. That entire<br /> span is the equivalent of 1 second of the earth's total age.</p> </li> <li> <p>The first microprocessor masks were (initially) created manually by cutting a stencil in rubylith (If you are too young to know what rubylith is, see this discussion and picture on Answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/intel.) The first microprocessor, the 4004, had 2,300 transistors. Today, a 1/2-inch square microprocessor has millions (or was it billions?) of transistors.</p> </li> <li> <p>The circuitry patterns of a microprocessor are so small that they cannot be seen with even the strongest optical microscopes in the world. These patterns are literally just a few atoms deep.</p> </li> </ul> <hr /> If you weren't part of CARSEF this year, make plans for next April. Not only is an interesting experience, the papers range from very poor to excellent, you always learn something. The imagination, scientific exploration, and writing skills of the winners is awesome!</div> </div> <div style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;width:848px;height:208px;background-image:url('(EmptyReference!)');-adbe-c:c"> <div align="left"> <a href="../3apr06/Images/rd_banner.jpg"><img src="../3apr06/Images/rd_banner1.jpg" alt="" width="689" height="190" border="0" /></a><font size="3" color="#cc6633" face="Zapf Chancery, Comic Sans MS, cursive">May 2006</font></div> </div> <div style="position:absolute;top:1168px;left:0px;width:444px;height:263px;"> <img src="../3apr06/Images/ICM_ad.jpg" alt="" width="444" height="263" border="0" /></div> <div style="position:absolute;top:208px;left:0px;width:192px;height:704px;-adbe-c:c"> <p><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><a href="4indexmay06.html">Rough Draft Home</a></font></p> <p><a href="meeting_information.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Meeting Information</font></a></p> <p><a href="editorial_blithers.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Editorial Blithers</font></a></p> <p><a href="carsef.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">CARSEF</font></a></p> <p><a href="community_news.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Phoenix Community News</font></a></p> <p><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><a href="help_wanted.html">Help Wanted</a></font></p> <p><a href="sig_signals.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">SIG Signals</font></a></p> <p><a href="society_news.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">STC News</font></a></p> <p><a href="On_the_job.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">On The Job</font></a></p> <p><a href="tooling_around.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Tooling Around</font></a></p> <p><a href="grammar_central.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Grammar Central</font></a></p> <p><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><a href="seminars_workshops.html">Seminars, Workshops, Education</a></font></p> <p><a href="http://www.stc-phoenix.com/news2.html" target="http://www.stc-phoenix.com/news2.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Archives</font></a></p> <p><a href="boilerplate/masthead.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Masthead</font></a></p> <p><a href="boilerplate/advertising.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">Advertising in Rough Draft</font></a></p> <p><a href="boilerplate/about_phoenix_chapter.html"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">About the Phoenix Chapter</font></a></p> <div align="left"> <p><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><a href="boilerplate/feedback_comments.html">Feedback and Comments<br /> </a><img src="../3apr06/Images/stx_logo.jpg" alt="" height="141" width="98" border="0" /></font></p> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> </body>