Top Science Award for La Jolla Pupil
A La Jolla High School senior who studied how the use of brain cells of rats in laboratory cultures can prevent the killing of additional animals won top honors this week in the California State Science Fair.
Grete Anne Hemmingsen, 17, was named student of the year at the fair and awarded $5,000. She also received a $500 prize for science project of the year.
Randy Borden of Bell Junior High School in Paradise Hills was named teacher of the year, tying with two other teachers and sharing a $5,000 prize in the contest sponsored by the California Museum of Science and Industry.
The awards were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Thirty-five other students from the San Diego area won prizes.
Hemmingsen’s project also captured a $200 third-place grand award in biochemistry and a $250 award at the recent 43rd International Science and Engineering Fair in Nashville, Tenn.
Hemmingsen is captain of her school’s 15-member Science Olympiad team that came in first last weekend in a national competition at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.
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