Arizona Students to Show Talents at Fourth Annual Avnet Science and Technology Fair.Statewide Students in Fifth to Eighth Grades Eligible to Win Cash Prizes PHOENIX -- Young students will have an opportunity to compete and win cash prizes in the fourth annual Avnet Science and Technology Fair on April 14, 2007, at the Arizona Science Center Arizona Science Center is focused on inspiring, educating, and entertaining people about science. The Center is located in Heritage and Science Park in the heart of downtown Phoenix. , located at 600 East Washington Street The following streets in the United States are called Washington Street:
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ) has collaborated with sponsors, including Calence, STMicroelectronics, and the Dairy Council and Arizona Milk Producers, to host the Avnet Science and Technology Fair and enhance the connection between business and education for the enrichment enrichment Food industry The addition of vitamins or minerals to a food–eg, wheat, which may have been lost during processing. See White flour; Cf Whole grains. of Arizona education. The state-wide event was created to give students in grades five through eight a chance to apply basic science skills to invent a new product or process that addresses an unmet un·met adj. Not satisfied or fulfilled: unmet demands. need or solves a problem. It also gets students excited about invention, science, and technology, which are the key areas of many future jobs. "The Avnet Science and Technology Fair offers Arizona elementary school elementary school: see school. students an opportunity to demonstrate their problem-solving and creative-thinking skills by applying the science principles currently being taught in our schools and inventing a new product or process," said Phil Gallagher, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, Americas. "Additionally, Avnet is helping develop young students for future leadership roles in the high-technology industry, which benefits them and the entire community." The student entries will be exhibited from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and judged by professionals from Avnet, STMicroelectronics, the Dairy Council and Arizona Milk Producers, Calence, and other local companies. They will choose the top three winning entries from each grade during the Fair. Awards will be presented during a luncheon. Winners from each grade level will receive $1,000, as will their teachers, plus they will also demonstrate their winning inventions on a local television program. Second place winners will receive $400, and third place winners will receive $200. Additionally, STMicroelectronics will award one student $1,000 for an innovative environmental project; Avnet will award $1,000 for an innovative computer science project; and the Dairy Council and Arizona Milk Producers will award another $1,000 for an agricultural technology project. More information is available at www.avnetscienceandtechnologyfair.com/. About Avnet With more than 250 locations serving customers in 70 countries, Avnet markets, distributes, and adds value to the products of the world's leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers, and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. subsystem A unit or device that is part of a larger system. For example, a disk subsystem is a part of a computer system. A bus is a part of the computer. A subsystem usually refers to hardware, but it may be used to describe software. providers. Additionally, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of service capabilities, such as supply-chain optimization, logistics solutions, product assembly, device programming, computer system integration, and engineering design assistance. For the fiscal year ended July 1, 2006, Avnet generated revenue of $14.25 billion. Visit www.avnet.com/. |
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