The 2016 Youth Engineering & Science (YES) Fair was held at the Windemere Hotel & Convention Center in Sierra Vista on February 23-26, 2016. Students in grades 5 through 12 in Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative’s service area and schools in Bisbee, Douglas, Nogales, and Tombstone are elegible to enter. HAC member Bob Gent volunteered to help judge the event and was especially interested in projects that involved Space Science. This year there were 2 projects that qualified in that area.
Congratulations to Dennis Yusufoff and Camden Miller for their outstanding project on Mars botany (photo below). Among other awards, they each won a $50 check from the Huachuca Astronomy Club and certificates of achievement. They also won one-year family memberships in the Huachuca Astronomy Club.
Congratulations, also, to Miriam Allen of Joyce Clark Middle School (photos of project and award below). Among other awards, she won the 2016 awards from the Huachuca Astronomy Club and the Planetary Science Institute. She completed an excellent project on star brightness vs distance (see photos below). She won a $50 check from HAC, certificates of achievement from HAC and PSI, a PSI backpack, a signed book about Mars, a PSI hat, and a PSI 32GB flash drive. She also won a one-year family membership in the Huachuca Astronomy Club.
