Labels
Posted by

Spotlight on the Eighth Grade, Southwest/Pacific Regional First Place Team: Dust Busters

Four eighth grade students from The Harker School in San Jose, Calif., received a regional first-place award in this year’s national eCYBERMISSION competition. With this award, each team member will receive a $3,000 U.S. EE Savings Bond, a certificate of recognition from the U.S. Army and an expenses-paid trip to the National Judging and Educational Event (NJ&aEE) in Baltimore, Md., in June to present their final projects.

The “Dust Busters” team, comprised of students Allen Cheng, Daniel Pak, Albert Chu and Sharon Babu, and led by Team Advisor Vandana Kadam, was recognized for its investigation into a community-wide controversy revolving around dust coming from a local quarry.



The team set out to discover whether or not mercury emissions from a local cement plant were higher than the current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards. Although the students discovered that the quarry was not in violation, the levels of mercury in the bodies of water near the quarry were much higher than in other bodies of water in their community. To raise awareness in their community, the students presented their findings to the City Council and created a pamphlet, which they handed out to members of their community by going from door-to-door.

To view a full list of the 2009-2010 eCYBERMISSION regional winning teams, click here.
Email Post
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

We welcome your comments and expect that our conversation will follow the general rules of respectful civil discourse. This is a moderated blog, and we will only post comments from bloggers over 13 years of age that relate to eCYBERMISSION. We will review comments for posting within one business day. Bloggers are fully responsible for everything that they submit in their comments, and all posted comments are in the public domain. We do not discriminate against any views, but we reserve the right not to post comments.