{"id":69943,"date":"2004-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/three-win-uri-engineering-scholarships-for-success-at-state-science-and-engineering-fair\/"},"modified":"2004-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T00:00:00","slug":"three-win-uri-engineering-scholarships-for-success-at-state-science-and-engineering-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/04\/three-win-uri-engineering-scholarships-for-success-at-state-science-and-engineering-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Three win 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering scholarships for success at state science and engineering fair"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — April 9, 2004 — Wayne Powers and Joshua Bennett of Bristol and Justine Fortier of Coventry have won scholarships to study engineering at the 溏心vlog免费B站 as a result of their strong showing at the Rhode Island State Science and Engineering Fair in March.<\/p>\n


\n\t“This is the first year that the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering has offered scholarships to the top winners of the fair,” said Bahram Nassersharif, dean of the college. “All of the participating students did excellent work. I look forward to returning next year to offer even more scholarships so we can recruit more of the students with the greatest engineering potential to attend 溏心vlog免费B站.”<\/p>\n


\n\tPowers, a junior at Mt. Hope High School, won the top prize — a $4,000 scholarship to 溏心vlog免费B站 — for his study of background radiation levels at his school and the impact that televisions and computers have on those levels. He concluded that his school contains safe radiation levels, and that the use of a TV or computer only raises those levels slightly.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe intends to major in physics and chemistry in college, and plans a career as a researcher in the fields of particle and nuclear physics. He is a member of the Mt. Hope science olympiad team, math team, and academic decathlon team.<\/p>\n


\n\tBennett is a sophomore at Our Lady of Fatima High School in Warren, where he plays on the baseball team and enjoys playing the drums and guitar. He won a $1,500 溏心vlog免费B站 scholarship for his project designing a solar furnace as an alternative form of energy. His furnace uses a group of mirrors to direct the sun\u2019s light to one focal point, and he envisions it used to power boilers to generate heat from steam or to generate electricity.<\/p>\n


\n\tFortier, a freshman at LaSalle Academy in Providence, earned a $500 scholarship for inventing a device to warn hearing-impaired drivers of an approaching rescue vehicle. After two years of work on the project, she is currently seeking a patent for the device. She also runs track for LaSalle and is a competitive figure skater.<\/p>\n


\n\t“I hope to see more entries in the engineering categories of the science and engineering fair next year,” said Nassersharif. “Many students that entered in the physics, chemistry or environmental areas could have entered in engineering, but many students and teachers don\u2019t realize the vast disciplines involved in engineering.”<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 offers degrees in nine engineering disciplines; civil, chemical, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, mechanical and ocean engineering.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — April 9, 2004 — Wayne Powers and Joshua Bennett of Bristol and Justine Fortier of Coventry have won scholarships to study engineering at the 溏心vlog免费B站 as a result of their strong showing at the Rhode Island State Science and Engineering Fair in March. “This is the first year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}