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Ladue High School Senior, Monica Malone, won first place in the Honors Division Competition of the Academy of Science St. Louis Science Fair on Saturday, Feb. 27 with the project “A study of microbial communities from till and no-till Missouri soils using genetic fingerprinting”. The honors division is a collegiate level research studies competition for Grades 9 – 12 by students enrolled in St. Louis City or St. Louis County schools.  

We attended the area conference of the National Science Teachers Association in Kansas City (December 3-5, 2015). We had the great opportunity to give a presentation about soil respiration. Soil science has been mostly focused on physical and chemical properties of the soil. In recent years, the biology of the soil has becoming a main subject of study.

The second training of citizens for the soil health surveys was on November 20, 2015 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. Our host Joel Burken and his team did a great job in providing logistics for this training. Teachers and high schoolers came from Union, St. Clair and Crocker. They all drove about an hour to attend this training on a Friday night! Thank you all for participating.