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Navy base to host 60 area students

PORT HUENEME - Engineers from the Port Hueneme Surface Warfare Center Division at Naval Base Ventura County will hold the sixth annual National Engineer's Week event Wednesday for 60 middle-school students.

The event includes an engineering competition designed to put young minds to work using their math and science skills.

This year's competition will pit five students from each of 12 Ventura County middle schools who will attend with their math or science teachers.

After the tours, each team will be sent on a mission to create a project that will engage the students in a variety of rocket-science concepts such as aerodynamics, trajectory, and pull of gravity.

The winning team of students will have the opportunity to ride a Navy ship at sea, and the American Society of Naval Engineers, Channel Islands Section and the International Society of Logistics, Ventura County Chapter will be donating prizes for second and third places.

- Daily News

Concert to feature Discovery Artists

THOUSAND OAKS - The New West Symphony's Guitar Center Young Artists Concert will feature the 2006 Discovery Artists as soloists with the New West Symphony conducted by Music Director Boris Brott next Saturday and Sunday.

The performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Countrywide Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd.

The program will include works by Mozart, Gershwin, Ravel, Puccini, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky.

Tickets are priced from $12 to $30 and are available by calling (800) NEW WEST from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays or through the New West Symphony Web site at www.newwestsymphony.org. Tickets also are available at the concert hall box offices during their regular business hours.

- Daily News