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News Release Three Holy Family Parish School Students Win in Chester County Science FairStudents to take on the Delaware Valley Regional Science Fair April 1-3, 2008Three students in the Holy Family Parish School in Phoenixville, PA have been awarded first, second and third places in the Chester County Science Research Competition on February 29. Competing among more than 400 students in two divisions, Holy Family School students Julia Yearwood, Kerry Milligan and Katie Reynolds will move on to compete in the regional Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF) on April 1 – 3, to be held at the Valley Forge Convention Center. The Holy Family School students will be competing in the DVSF’s Einstein Fair, a division for tri-state area students in grades six through eight. The judging will take place on Wednesday, April 2, with an awards ceremony held on Thursday, April 3. “We are very pleased with our students’ success over the past years at the Chester County and Delaware Valley Science Fairs,” said Holy Family School principal Patricia Dura. “We wish Julie, Kerry, and Katie the best of luck in the regional competition.” The Chester County Science Research Competition awarded Julia Yearwood, grade eight, first place for her engineering project that tested the effects of turbulence on the Magnus Effect—the generation of positive of negative lift when air passes over a rotating cylinder. “I came up with my project idea while researching a Flettner ship, which uses giant rotating cylinders to propel it,” said Yearwood. After testing the theory that turbulence would affect the lift using different cylinder diameters and surface treatments, Yearwood was able to conclude her hypothesis was correct. Second place was awarded to Kerry Milligan, grade seven, for a behavioral and social sciences project. Milligan developed and drew conclusions from a questionnaire that tested how well members of six families knew other members of their family, with questions on eye color and word attribution. “The end result of my study was father does know best—at least the members of his family,” said Milligan. Katie Reynolds, grade eight, was awarded third place for her environmental science project that tested the pollution levels of Phoenixville and compared them to samples taken in Philadelphia. “After collecting the data, I concluded that even though Phoenixville’s economy is growing, our environment does not yet have the same pollution as a big city like Philadelphia,” said Reynolds. The Chester County Science Research Competition also awarded Holy Family School students Regina Capaldo and Michele Walsh, both grade seven, honorable mentions in the competition’s team project division.
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