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Keller student earns state honors
Submitted by Staff on Tue, 05/08/2007 - 11:51am.
Jarrett James, a student at Annie Keller Regional Gifted Magnet School in Mount Greenwood, received a silver award for his materials science project titled "Bent on Metals" at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science Awards last weekend.
He competed with hundreds of other students of varying grade levels in more than a dozen categories.
The statewide competition is held annually at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana campus.
James had received the elementary school award for Materials Science at the 57th annual Chicago Student Science Fair, which took places at the Museum of Science and Industry March 19-25.
The category involves the study of materials, nonmetallic as well as metallic, and how they can be adapted and fabricated to meet the needs of modern technology. Using the laboratory techniques and research tools of physics, chemistry, and metallurgy, materials science is finding new ways of using plastics, ceramics, and other nonmetals in applications formerly reserved for metals.
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