Nearly $1-million in scholarships and prize money will be awarded to the winners of the Delaware Valley science fairs who are competing at the regional level.
Approximately 1,200 6th through 12th grade students attended this fair, after advancing from 13 county science fairs through, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware..
"These are the top motivated students from the tri-state area," executive director Henry Disston said.
Haddonfield Friends School 6th grader Mitchell Hogan's project asks which cleansing product kills the most bacteria?
"In the end, Purell worked the best; the shocking thing I found out in my experiment Dove and Germ-ex increased the growth of bacteria," Hogan said.
St. Aloysius Academy 7th grader Paul Harryhill tested an aluminum bat and a wooden one to see which would hit a baseball the farthest and he told Action News, it's all about the "sweet zone," the area between blue lines.
16 students will win an all-expense paid trip to the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in San Jose, in May and will compete against students from 48 other states and 65 countries.
Bethlehem's Freedom School 11th grader Raina Jain has been to the Internationals twice before, and with her project, " Glass Bone Implants: The Differentiation of Precursor Osteoblast Cells, it's likely, she'll return this year.
I'm working on a material called bioglass. What's unique about bioglass is that over time, inside the body, it turns into bone. It's an up and coming material for bone formation and bone implants," Jain said.
"This is the future of our country we're dealing with here; it's not just a fair for kids," judge William Belanger said.
Before today's winners travel onto San Jose, they'll be recognized at an event at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia on April 21.
