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By toilet V. CIANI/Staff ReporterBurroughs High School pupils Amy Lee, Tommy Wooding, Dawn Ostrom and Brian Spike Spike Lee will be among the high- and middle-school students who will vie May 30 in the 57th yearly Golden State Science Fair. The event will take topographic point at the Golden State Science Center in Los Angeles.Saint Ann School's Leah Ostermann and Gilbert Murray Center School pupil Alyssa Bloomberg will also be eligible to compete.

The local pupils were among approximately 700 fourth- through 12th-grade pupils from 140 schools competing April 1-2 in the 21st yearly Jerome Kern County Science Carnival at the Rabobank Convention Center in Bakersfield.Lee and Wooding teamed up to take top awards in the High School Division Chemistry Class for “Save the Condor” project, and Ostrom took 3rd topographic point in Chemistry with “The Consequence of Gravity and Counterions on the Hydrogen Ion Diffusion” project. Spike Lee took the top topographic point in the Mathematics/Computer Science and Games Class for his project, “Investigation of Mathematical Model of Harmonic Spring Motion.Ostermann claimed the second-place spot in the Center School Division Plant Biology Category, and Bloomberg tied for 3rd topographic point in the Center School Mathematics/Computer Science and Games Category.

Saint Ann fifth-grade pupil Alexandra Silva took 3rd topographic point in the Intermediate Division Fifth-Grade Chemistry and Chemical Reactions Category.Entries were judged on scientific thought, technology goals, creativity, organization, completeness, clarity, attempt and motivation.The pupils also had to explicate their displays, log books and hypotheses to a panel of judges.

The Jerome Jerome Kern County Overseer of Schools administrates the scientific discipline fair.Aera Energy LLC is the primary sponsor, with further sponsorships and support from Chevron North United States Exploration advertisement Production, Occidental of Elk Hills and the Kern County Science Foundation.