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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.

A recent survey states that less than 10% of alumni of computing machine scientific discipline programmes in the U.S. are achromatic -- a fact that volition lend to a deficit of engineering people in the old age ahead, Microsoft president Bill Bill Gates said.

"The United States is not turning out from any grouping as many of the great applied scientists as there will be occupations for," said Gates, who added that blacknesses are particularly underrepresented in the technical school industry because high school dropout rates in the achromatic community transcend 50%.

"That is a arresting figure ... the tendencies are very much workings against person in that situation," said Gates, speaking Friday at a conference hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters.

"There will be a immense figure of computing machine scientific discipline occupations created over the adjacent 10 years, and the figure of people majoring in those topics is falling short of that," said Gates.

According to a survey by the National Science Foundation, fewer than 6,000 of the 52,500 inch the U.S. in 2004 were black. "The shallow pool of accomplishments is due, in part, to the deficiency of minorities being drawn into technology," said NSBE executive manager director Carl Mack, in a statement.

Microsoft, named by the NSBE on Tuesday as the top employer for achromatic engineers, said it's trying to change that by partnering with NSBE and hiring and promoting African-American programmers and engineers.

The company also announced a software system developer grant to the NSBE that gives its members a three-year membership in the Microsoft Developer Network Academician Alliance. The ranks give NSBE mental faculty and pupils entree to a scope of Microsoft merchandises and technologies, including Windows Vista, SQL Server, and Ocular Studio.

Gates said Friday that Microsoft will go on its attempts to construct a diverse workforce. "We desire to acquire achromatic engineers, Latino applied scientists ... everyone that we can," he said.

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Nairobi and Mombasa polytechnic institutes will be elevated to universities offering technical studies.

This is likely to give them an border as trainers of pick for the local market.

Students graduating at the Republic Of Kenya Polytechnic, Nairobi. The establishment will be elevated to a university. Photo/FILE

They volition go on offering sheepskin courses of study of study and reserve their personal identities as skills-based trainers to separate them from traditional universities, states Science and Technology lasting secretary Crispus Kiamba.

Prof Kiamba also observes that treatments were on to guarantee Republic Of Kenya Science Teachers College, a campus of the University of Nairobi, goes on to offer sheepskin courses that had given it a niche as the best trainer of scientific discipline instructors for secondary schools.

To procure independency of the polytechnics, the Science ministry have drafted a Technology Bill that will see the establishments germinate into independent engineering universities. This arose from fearfulnesses that the move would kill their identities.

"We are finalising a new University of Technology Bill, which eventually will go University of Technology Act. This volition enable us set up engineering universities. But we don't desire these establishments to lose that of import middle-level instruction training, which is facing jobs in footing of adequacy, quality and relevance," Prof Kiamba says.

In position of this, the polytechnic institutes have got maintained their name calling even as they go constitutional colleges of two populace universities. Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Kenya Polytechnic Institute Institute Institute Institute goes Kenya Polytechnic University College, a component of the University of Nairobi, while Mombasa Polytechnic is now Mombasa Polytechnic University College, a component of Kenyatta University.

Prof Kiamba said the establishments would go full universities after three years.

Besides the two polytechnics, programs are underway to upgrade Eldoret and Kisumu polytechnic institutes to offer grade courses.

However, Education helper curate Kilemi Mwiria said the establishments would go on offering sheepskin courses of study of study and reserve their status.

"We will go on to offer sheepskin scientific discipline instructors at Kenya Science and it will not lose the position of what it have got been celebrated for," he said.

Prof Kiamba also noted that KSTC should have been made a component college to run semi-autonomously and go on with its tradition of preparation teachers.

"Discussions are still going on between the ministries of Education, Science and Technology and the University of Capital Of Kenya to reexamine this issue to safeguard the college's tradition and history of preparation scientific discipline teachers."

With the pickings over of the scientific discipline college, sheepskin instructors are trained at Kagumo and Kenya Technical Teachers Training College.

The three were among six establishments upgraded to either component or campuses of the populace universities.

Others include Kimathi University College, a component of Jomo Kenyatta University; Pwani University College, subdivision of Kenyatta University; Chuka and Kisii university colleges that were linked to Egerton University.

Earlier, Kitui Teachers Training College had been upgraded to a subdivision of Kenyatta University while Kabianga Forestry College became a campus of Moi University.

Dr Mwiria said the lift sought to spread out entree to university education.

For the first clip this year, about 16,000 pupils will be admitted to local public universities, a 60 per cent addition over the former years.

The route to university enlargement started with the publication of a sessional paper on education, preparation and research in 2005.

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Among other things, it called for upgrading of the polytechnic institutes to offer grade programs and constitution of more than universities.

This was followed with the taskforce on university instruction headed by Prof Kabiru Kinyanjui which also proposed the scene up of universities in Coast, Eastern and North Eastern provinces.

Mombasa Polytechnic Institute University College principal Akumu Owuor, who is preparing to have 100 pupils by January adjacent year, states the establishment was well- equipped to offer certain grade programmes.

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