Rep Zoe Lofgren Proposes Amdmnt to FIRST Act Restoring Social Behavioral Science Funding
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19) proposes an amendment to H.R. 4186, Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act of 2014. Rep. Lofgren #39;s...

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Two teams from Morgan County hold their respective third-place trophies after the Colorado State Science Fair. From left,: Kaitlin Wells, Kaybree Keating, Sarena Wells and Aubrey Wells. (Jeff Wells / Courtesy photo)

Fort Morgan Middle School student Kaitlin Wells, left, teamed up with Weldon Valley Middle School student Kaybree Keating for a local science fair project and the two were able to advance to the Colorado State Science Fair. The girls received first place for the their team project at the Morgan/Washington Bi-County Science Fair. (Jeff Wells / Courtesy photo)

Two teams of students from Morgan County took home trophies and awards from the Colorado State Science and Engineering Fair April 10 to 12 at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Collins.

The teams consisted of Weldon Valley Middle School student Kaybree Keating and Fort Morgan Middle School student Kaitlin Wells, competing in the junior division, and Fort Morgan High School students Sarena and Aubrey Wells, competing in the senior division.

Their journeys began at the Morgan/Washington Bi-County Science Fair, though.

Keating and Kaitlin Wells received first place for their project, "From Trash to Gas," which was entered in the Junior Division Energy and Transportation category. They took ordinary trash and mixed it with manure to create gas.

Fort Morgan High School students Aubrey Wells, left, and Sarena Wells advanced to the Colorado State Science Fair after receiving first place for their team project in the Health and Behavioral Health Category at the Morgan/Washington Bi-County Science Fair. (Jeff Wells / Courtesy photo)

In the state competition, their project got third place, but also won the Air & Waste Management Association Rocky Mountain States Award and was chosen as first-place winner for the Junior Division Student Choice Award.

The senior division team of Sarena and Aubrey Wells followed a similar path to the state science fair, winning first place for their project in the Health and Behavioral Health category at the bi-county science fair.

The teens' project, "Learning with Style: Analysis and Testing of Learning styles with Pre-School Children," involved testing learning styles of preschool children.

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Morgan County students bring home state science fair trophies

College students can probably learn a thing or two about security from the National Security Agency, right?

The NSA hopes so, as it is funding small labs dubbed "lablets" at research universities that will focus on the Science of Security. Carnegie Mellon University, North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Maryland have received millions in grants for the project.

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All of the work is basic science, without any publication restrictions, saysWilliam Scherlis, professor and director of the Institute for Software Research -- and of the security lablet -- at Carnegie Mellon. The point of all this is to build a network of SoS thinking.

This combines computer science, software engineering, behavioral science and economics, and addresses questions in areas such as scalability and human behavior.

The University of Maryland has received $4.5 million over three years to establish its lablet."Much of the existing work in cybersecurity is reactive, and focuses on designing 'point solutions' to specific problems," saysJonathan Katz, director of theMaryland Cybersecurity Center(MC2) and lead principal investigator of the lablet. "Our goal is to establish mathematical models that can be used to address cybersecurity threats more broadly, and to carry out empirical studies that can help validate those models."

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How adorable: NSA hatches "lablets" at 4 universities