OF
METROPOLITAN
Tri-County
Schools Competition Celebrates 53rd Year of Educational Excellence
Celebrating
its 53rd year, the SEFMD will be held Tuesday, March 16 through
Saturday, March 20 at
High
school-aged students will be vying for a variety of individual and team awards,
including local college scholarships for the top-six individual and top team
entrants in the senior division. These students will automatically qualify for
the 2010 international competition in
This
year, approximately 1,800 students from a record-setting 105 representative
public, private and home schools will participate in the SEFMD. Of this total, nearly 60 percent of the
contestants are girls and nearly half of all entrants are African-American
students.
“This
year’s Fair could rank among the most memorable in our competition’s long
history,” said Tim Fino, Director of the SEFMD. “In reviewing hundreds of
project abstracts, we are amazed at the creativity and ingenuity of our local
students. This bodes well for our competition and confirms a healthy, local
interest in the sciences.”
Dave
Baxter, Executive Administrator for the Technical Administration and Planning
Office at Ann Arbor-based
“These
students represent the engineers, scientists and physicians of tomorrow,”
Baxter said. “Many of our own engineers, at
About SEFMD
The Science and Engineering Fair of
Metropolitan Detroit (SEFMD), in its 53rd year of operation, is a non-profit
organization established to give students in the tri-county area (
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The competition is separated into two
groups - junior division (6th, 7th and 8th grades) and senior division (9th -
12th grades). Students are judged within their respective categories
(total of 13 categories based on scientific discipline). Up to six students
(limit of ONE student per school in the senior division) and one team project
(two or three students) may be selected to participate in the 2010 International
Science and Engineering Fair.
The SEFMD is administered by a Board of
Directors and the operations of the Fair are managed by an Operating Council.
Both groups meet regularly to plan for the Fair. All members of the Board and
the Operating Council are volunteers who give generously of their time, money
and other resources. In addition, more than 500 people volunteer their time during
the week of the Fair, including judging work, checking in projects, and
assisting with public viewing and project removal.
About
Toyota
Motor Sales (TMS),
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Contacts:
Curt
McAllister
Tel:
(313) 259-4598
Email:
curt_mcallister@toyota.com
Tim
Fino
Science
Fair Director
Science
and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan
Tel:
(248) 471-9900
Email:
TimF2010@mmca.com
Jim
Meloche
PR
Contact for Science Fair
The
Marketing Collaborative
Tel:
(248) 376-4076
Email:
jim@themarketingcollaborative.net