European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 16, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 education Brussels american is wins Benelux brain bowl Oesterberg a Netherlands a amps Brussels american High school outscored teams from five other schools to win the Benelux District brain bowl title thursday. The annual Competition patterned after College brain bowls tests students knowledge in such subjects As social studies literature sports math and science. Brussels team members wer amp Sascha Fedyszyn Jennie Sutton Kevin Scaldeferri Becky Sliwa Mickey Warriner and Sean Compton. Accent Allied forces Central Europe High school took second place and Bonn High school placed third. Fedyszyn received the mob or most valuable brain award. Bad Kreuz Nach american High school team member Chris Watters was recognized for giving the a Best off the Wall answer. The question a who was the first Black astronaut in space a the answer Mike Tyson. Watters said be had been a Little too Quick to push his answer Buzzer thinking the question was a who was the first astronaut in space a the Correct answer was air Force it. Col. Guion s. Bluford who was part of the Crew on the space shuttle challengers third Mission from aug. 30-sept. 5,1983. Also competing were shape supreme he Allied Powers Europe High school and Soester Berg american High school which hosted the two Day  and career night Frankfurt Germany a the Frankfurt High school and its Parent teacher and student association will sponsor the annual College and career night april 2. College and career night featuring 100 colleges and 20 career speakers will be in the ballroom of the Terrace club in the Abrams Complex from 7 . To 9 . The event allows High school students their parents and interested soldiers airmen and family members in the greater Frankfurt area to gather information about careers universities and colleges and to talk individually with graduates of the colleges represented and Deans of admission. Colleges will be arranged alphabetically by state and by  Augsburg Campus Munich Germany a amps r Mary Baron the new resident Dean of the University of Maryland a Munich Campus arrived just m time to oversee the schools 1 move from Munich a Mcgraw Cavern to Reese Cavern in Augsburg. The Munich Campus is closing As part of the . Forces draw Down in Europe. Renovation is under Way on the schools new facilities in Augsburg which include four residence Halls a student Union Baron building a Library two classroom buildings a gymnasium and laboratories All located on Reese. A a we be received wonderful support in Augsburg a Baron said. A we can to continue exactly As we were. But Augsburg Campus will be As Good As Munich Campus and probably better in terms of facilities.�?�. Adult students also will have new opportunities at the Augsburg Campus. Residence Halls will feature accommodations for adult residents which Baron said is a growing population of the school. At the Augsburg Campus students will see a return to an american style Campus with a full meal plan available through the student Union dorm style rooms rather than Munich Campus apartments and More of a Campus setting where the buildings Are grouped together. Munich Campus will close following the Spring 1992 semester. The new facilities in Augsburg will open for the fall 1992 semester. S&8 Vino Crawley Justin Abold Centero Ramstein High school in Germany gives his presentation at the european Junior science and humanities symposium. He researched aids knowledge and attitudes among High school students. Dod conference highlights students science projects by Vince Crawley Start writer Heidelberg Germany a garbage from rocket ships is trashing the sky. The offspring of military officers get better grades than the children of enlisted troops. Too much television stunts Plant growth. These were some of the findings of More than two dozen High school science projects unveiled in a conference last week in Heidelberg. Emma Fosbury and Allison Turtle won top place by showing Star photos streaked by wandering satellites and a space  the effect a resembling insects on a car Windshield a ruins Many of the expensive photographs made by research telescopes. And the problem is growing Fosbury and Turtle told a group of about 100 students and teachers at the european Junior science and humanities symposium. Their Oral presentation was judged by five science education experts. The two winners attend the Munich european school part of the school system set up for the children of european Community government workers. However the majority of students at the symposium came from department of defense dependents schools. The science program is funded by Pentagon research and development funds and seeks to spotlight promising science students said Don Rollins of the army research office in research Triangle Park . A the army is a great user of science a Rollins said and a majority of students who attend the symposiums go on to science careers. Dodds in the european and Pacific regions make up two of 48 symposiums Rollins said. The other 46 Are being held in the states and a total of 7,000 students will be involved. Students compete by submitting research papers and those with the Best projects Are invited to give an Oral presentation said Earl Morse science coordinator for Dodds Germany Region. Other students whose projects weren to quite thorough enough to be presented orally were invited to make posters explaining their research. Jacqueline Hardy from Vilseck High school in Germany studied a parental friction and sexual activity to win first place in the science poster Competition which was judged by students at the conference. Projects by the Oral finalists were a launching a water Flea named Daphnia in various vehicles particularly Model rockets to test the effects of stress on the fleas heart rate. The Experiment was performed by Danielle Picard of Lakenheath High school in England. A measuring toxic waste in the polluted Werra River which runs along what was the Border of former East Germany and West Germany. Kaye Wissel and t. Roberts both of Frankfurt High school in Germany also narrowed the source of heaviest pollution to Salt mining operations that straddle the old Border. A studying the effects of holes in the Earth a Ozone layer. Goran Zeravica of Zaragoza High school in Spain did this by seeing what happens when bean plants Are exposed to High doses of Ultra Violet Light. A creating Oil spills to see How they affect the growth of fresh water algae. Caroline Harris of Lakenheath High school did this water pollution research. Some of the other ideas tested by students included a does temperature affect the mutation rate of fruit flies a the effects on the swimming Speed of a microbe called Euglena when it is jolted with electricity. A does global warming contribute to the fact that England is crumbling into the sea also Alex leather an avid Fisherman who attends the Bergen european school in Norway went on a quest for the Ideal Carp Hook. He determined that a a fancy packet with complicated names does not equal  Daisey Jorgensen of Ansbach High school in Germany thought that the military ranks of parents would have no bearing on the academic performance of children. However she found out that 57 percent of both officers and civilians children were on the school Honor role compared to 31 percent of the children of enlisted people. Gretchen Hasselbring of Chaffee High school in Bermuda is an avid television watcher no wanted to find out a Are live cells affected by a color television screen a in her tests of plants those that a a watched the most television had roots 22 percent Shorter than the plants that stayed away from the to set. Finalists Tor the poster contest were Jenny Davis and Mark Jones of Augsburg High school. Germany Domenica Ludditt Autano High school Italy Christopher Meredith of the Bergen european school. Norway and Vanessa Murray of Lakenheath High school England