1998 St. Mary's County Science and Engineering Fair History

1998 St. Mary's County Science and Engineering Fair History

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Dr. Jane Margaret O'Brien, President of St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the staff of the Montgomery Arts Center Help host the fair at At. Mary's College Ms. Judy Gromis of Tracor Systems Technologies, Inc. designed the program cover 119 Students participated 14 Senior and 105 Junior Division students	Picture of Fair
The Senior Grand Award winner was Danielle Kalkofen. from Great Mills High School. Her project in the Category of Engineering was titled "ELF Field Effects." Did she go to college? What did she do for her career? Where is she now?	Picture of Senior Winner Now
The Junior Grand Award winner was Nicole Carbonaro from Esperanza Middle School. Her project in the category of Behavioral and Social Science was titled "Vocabulary - flow Do You Learn It?" Did she go to college? What did she do for her career? Where is she now?	Picture of Junior WinnerNow
Place for Story about the Fair
Corporate Sponsors: AAI, AMEWAS, AS&T, Bionetics/Ketron, C-CUBED, Capstone Corporation, Compliance Corporation, Mr. Raymond Dudderar, DynCorp, First National Bank of St. Mary's, Frontier Engineering, GRD Inc., Guy Distributing Inc., Jahn Corporation, J.F. Taylor, Maryland Bank and Trust Company, The MIL Corporation, Pacer/Infotec, MC Inc., SMECO, Systems Integration and Research Inc., Taylor Gas Co., Tracor Systems Technologies Inc., Veda Inc. - Additional sponsorship was provided by the Patuxent River Society of Engineers and Scientists through their Corporate Sponsors: CHI Systems Inc., Compliance Corporation, ICF Kaiser Inc., Logistics Management Engineering Inc., RAIL Corporation, The MIL Corporation

1998 World History Of Science and Engineering

Google began as a research project in January 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page. Their search engine was originally nicknamed "BackRub" because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance. A small search engine called Rankdex was already exploring a similar strategy. Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated as Google Inc. on September 7, 1998