NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION POINT MUGU, Calif. - NAWCWD employees supported the annual Ventura County Office of Education’s Science Fair on March 19 where about 800 students from more than 75 area schools competed.

Volunteers from NAWCWD included Cameron Bruce, Linda Bulie, Rich Burr, Bradley Duren, Larry Hoge, Andrew Im, Mitch Morrow, Cam Nguyen, Derek A. Rohm, Kim Tilliman, Martin Wright, Davis Wu and Thant Zin.

Students from Hueneme High School and other Ventura County schools displayed their award-winning science projects from local school competitions, previously judged by NAWCWD volunteers, for the county-level competition. This round of judging will result in the top students’ projects selected for the state competition.

The California State University, Channel Islands (CI) fifth annual science, technology, engineering and mathematics exposition was held in conjunction with the science fair. Five NAWCWD employees from Point Mugu volunteered to assist at the STEM Expo; they were Matthew Billington, Betty Delk, Darrell Hovde, Arturo Murillo and Chi Nguyen.

The STEM expo, that was co-sponsored by CI and VCOE, attracted several local and national science and technology exhibitors who provided materials and demonstrations geared toward the middle and high school student audience. The STEM Expo gave students a chance to meet NAWCWD employees, private individuals and corporate STEM professionals who shared information about the wide range of STEM careers available to them.