LAUSD STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL AT NATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE BOWL FINALS IN GOLDEN, COLORADO

Participating for the first time in the history of the Middle School Science Bowl, the Florence Nightingale Middle School team, representing the Los Angeles Unified School District, competed successfully in the Hydrogen Fuel Cell car race and the Academic Competition of the National Middle School Science Bowl Finals. The Science Bowl consisted of 180 students from 36 teams representing 27 states. In the Hydrogen powered car race, their time was faster than cars of 17 teams from 14 states-Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, 2 teams from California (Newark and Fresno), Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, 3 teams from Texas, and Virginia. In the rapid-fire academic question competition, the Los Angeles students defeated teams from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New York.
The students, Tommy Truong, Carlos Machuca, Jacqueline Mendoza, Rongyi Zhu, and Shao Zhao, accompanied by their Coaches-David Meyerhof, 6th grade math/science honors teacher, and Yvonne Martinez, 6th grade Language Arts/History teacher, have returned from the 2000 miles roundtrip to Colorado. They will hold a press conference and be available for interviews at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 in the Student Cafeteria at Florence Nightingale Middle School, 3311 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. The students will show their car which took 3 months to build, explain how their car was built, and how water is converted into hydrogen to power the car’s motor. They will also create a simulated academic question session with the lock-out buzzer.

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