Gila Crossing Community School Shines again in the

National Science Fair

Andullia Pablo

Joshua Gomez

Lisa Williams

Marina Valencia

Sevina Morris

Our school has been involved in organizing the local and community wide science fairs since 1994-95. Credit goes to Ms. Kim Franklin for taking the initiative and formally establishing the committee in 1995. This year's local science Fair was held in November 1999.Over 170 projects were entered by an estimated 200 students.

This year's national science fair sponsored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) was held in St. Paul Minnesota from March 27-30, 2000. This  is the 5th year that our students have won  awards  at the national level. Ten students participated in the national science fair from our school. Our ten students brought home seven awards. The winners are as following:

5th Grade 

   Andullia Pablo (3rd Place Winner in Earth Science Category)

   Lisa Williams (3rd Place Winner in Botany )

   Joshua Gomez ( 1st Place in Chemistry)

6th Grade Winners

   Marina Valencia (1st Place Winner in Botany)

   Sevina Morris ( 1st Place winner in Math )

Sevina Morris has also won "Best Over all Mathematics Project" whereas Marina picked up up another award in "Discovery Young Scientist Award" and now she is eligible to participate for a trip to Washington DC in October 2000.

Other participants were:

    Kelly Buckley (Botany)

    Danielle Miles (Botany)

    Anthony Wahpeta (Human Behavior)

    Angela Miguel (Engineering)

    Brenalee Sakiestewa ( Botany)

The whole school and the community are  very proud of our young and emerging scientists from our school. We wish them all the success for their future endeavors.