During the 29th annual Inland Area Science and Engineering Fair on April 5-6, 2011, more than 750 fourth through twelfth grade students from Riverside, Inyo, Mono and  San Bernardino (RIMS) counties competed for a chance to go to the State competition.  Students received gold, silver and bronze medals, with the gold winning Junior and Senior Division students in each category selected to participate at the state level.  Eighteen individual and five teams from the Fontana Unified School District participated in the regional fair at the National Orange Show, and one of those students, Sana Hadyeh a tenth grade student at Summit High School, will be advancing to the California State Science Fair, which will be held in Los Angeles on May 2-3.

Students participated in three divisions: Elementary (fourth- and fifth-graders), Junior (sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders) and Senior (9th- through 12th-graders).  Individual and group projects were judged in 19 categories of science - from microbiology to zoology, math and physics to electronics, and consumer sciences to earth sciences.

Congratulations to all of these young scientists for their hard work and a job well done.