Colorado High School Seniors Selected for National Youth Science Camp®
April 29, 2004
Denver, Colo. — Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) announced today that Danielle Fulton of Joes and Holly Sewell of Louisville have been selected as two of the most promising scientific leaders among Colorado’s 2004 high school graduates. At the invitation of Gov. Bob Wise of West Virginia, they will participate as delegates in the 40th session of the National Youth Science Camp® held near the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va.
"Ms. Fulton and Ms. Sewell are among the best and brightest of Colorado,” said Gov. Bill Owens. “We’re proud to have them in our state, and we’re glad that they will be representing Colorado at the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.”
Danielle Fulton is a four-time winner of the National Science Merit award and was one of 30 participants in the Colorado Frontiers of Science project in 2003. For the past four years, she has been a member of her local River Watch team, which conducts ongoing chemical analysis of the Arickaree and Republican rivers. Her science fair projects have won many local and regional awards, and she has assisted in publishing a field guide of all the wildlife that lives on her school’s 40-acre property. She participates in volleyball, basketball and track and is currently ranked first in her class at Liberty High School in Joes.
Holly Sewell has been a member of her high school’s Rocket Science Club for four years and is currently working with a research associate in the Laboratory for Atmosphere and Space Physics (LASP) at CU-Boulder on a study of water isotopes in the atmosphere. As a Girls Embrace Technology intern at CU-Boulder, she led a team of five young women to develop educational software that teaches grade 6-8 students about the relationships between physics and biology. An accomplished musician, Sewell is currently composing a full orchestra piece. She is ranked in the top four percent of her class of 396 students at Monarch High School in Louisville.
Established in 1963 as a part of West Virginia’s Centennial Celebration, the National Youth Science Camp® annually provides for 102 student delegates — two from each state and the District of Columbia — a four-week summer forum where delegates exchange ideas with leading scientists and professionals from academic and corporate worlds. Lectures and hands-on research projects are presented by scientists from across the United States who work on some of the most provocative topics in science today, such as fractal geometry, the human genome project, global climate change, the history of the universe, the fate of our rain forests and robotics.
NYSC® delegates are challenged to explore new areas in the biological and physical sciences, art, and music with resident staff members. They also present seminars covering their own areas of research and interest.
The National Youth Science Camp’s® academic program is complemented by an outdoor recreation program, which takes advantage of the camp’s location in the Monongahela National Forest by offering backpacking, caving, rock climbing, mountain biking and kayaking. The National Youth Science Foundation®, based in Charleston, W.Va., covers all expenses, including travel.
Selection of Colorado’s delegates was coordinated by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), a nonprofit education research and development organization located in Aurora. Through an Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Mathematics and Science grant from the U.S. Department of Education, McREL promotes improvement in mathematics and science education in a seven-state region that includes Colorado.
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