Aberdeen, SD - The 29^th annual Northern South Dakota Science and Mathematics Fair will be March 29 in the NSU Barnett Center. An estimated 350 junior and senior high school students from 20 area schools will display their science projects. The students come from Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Hyde, Marshall, McPherson, Roberts, Spink and Walworth counties.
 Projects will be judged in the morning and will be open for public viewing 1-7 p.m. only. The science fair awards ceremony – free and open to the pubic – will begin at 6 p.m. upstairs in the Barnett Center.
 The top two individuals and top team consisting of two students will receive an all-expense paid trip to Pittsburgh, Pa., to attend the International Science and Engineering Fair May 13-18. The students will compete there for several large cash awards and other prizes such as free college tuition.
 The science fair is under the direction of Jodie Ramsay, NSU associate professor of biology, and Linda Richards, secretary of the NSU math and science department.
 Junior and senior high science bowls, held in conjunction with the fair, will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Johnson Fine Arts Center. The public is invited to attend.