Local residents named ?Future Discover Award? scholarship winner

Iowa State University?s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has presented 10 ?Future Discovery Awards? to 4-H participants at the 2015 Iowa State Fair.

Kristen Twinam, 15, of Crawfordsville, was one of the recipients for her exhibit, ?United Nations,? for which she created an interactive display to teach about the United Nations.

Grace Shemanski, 16, of Keota, also won a scholarship with her exhibit called ?How Hot is Your Atmosphere?? Her exhibit focused on experimentally testing the effect of carbon dioxide level on temperature.

The Future Discovery Award is a $500 scholarship, which will be given to each student upon enrolling at ISU and pursuing a Liberal Arts and Sciences major.

The scholarship was presented to 4-H participants whose State Fair exhibits exemplified ?innovation, curiosity, and scholarship foundational to a liberal arts and sciences education.? Winning entries ranged from a wind turbine blade experiment to a Twitter-enabled coffee pot.

?We looked for blue-ribbon 4-H projects that exemplified the values inherent in a liberal arts education,? Dan Rice, the college?s Director of Recruiting and a judge, said. ?In addition, quality and creativity in presentation were evaluated.?

The projects selected represent the five ?academic interest areas? that make up the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities, communications, mathematics and computational sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Nearly 3,000 participants presented exhibits, which were first reviewed by 4-H judges. Afterward, Liberal Arts and Sciences staff selected 10 award recipients from about 1,500 blue ribbon-holding exhibits.