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• Alan Grinsteinner of Bison High School receives a $4,340 award for his project that uses electronics and digital data collection tools to better address and teach cross cutting concepts and engineering practices in fields spanning life science to physics in alignment with the new generation science standards.  Alan’s funds will specifically be used in a new course being developed at his school.  His project will annually reach about 65 high school students in his science classes including 10 high school students in a science course that is integrated with 12 third grade students.

• Steve Gabriel of Spearfish High School receives a $5,000 award for his project dealing with Underground Environmental Monitoring at the SURF.  This grant will be used to expand Steve’s project that has been ongoing for the past 10 years, such that the monitoring program keeps up with the growth of physics experiments at SURF.  The project reaches 240 students per year.