Catholic elementary school students of the archdiocese won four first-place awards in the junior division of the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair held in Athens in April.

Josh Baxter placed first in behavioral sciences with his investigation of the effect of various colored lights on earthworms and Kenneth Davis merited a first-placed in physics for his project on the density of different types of wood. Both are students at St. John Neumann Regional School in Lilburn.

Tara Phoenix of St. Joseph School in Marietta placed first in microbiology. In her experiment with a variety of food substances she discovered that orange juice is best to combine with yeast to produce carbon dioxide. Anderson Hughes of St. Thomas More School in Decatur won first place in zoology for his project testing the reaction of the Loggerhead turtle to light.

Second-place winners were Katie Gangell of St. John Neumann, Stacie Gamble of St. Thomas More, Laura Phillips of Christ the King School in Atlanta and Ann Sherberger of Immaculate Heart of May in Atlanta.