NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tennessee Biotechnology Association has invited Tennessee's brightest high school students to compete in the Tennessee State BioGENEius Challenge on February 18, 2006, at Pollard Technology and Conference Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A panel of top scientists and educators, including Dr. Reinhold Mann, Associate Laboratory Director for Biological and Environmental Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Dr. David Millhorn, Vice President for Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will select the top two students or student teams to represent Tennessee in the regional event.
Challenge winners will each receive $1,000 cash award to be split between the students and their school. They will then represent Tennessee at the Sanofi-Aventis Southeast Regional BioGENEius Challenge being held on March 4, 2006, at the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center in Franklin, Tennessee. Regional winners will go on to compete for a $7,500 scholarship in an international competition.
Both events are open to the public. The state competition will begin at 9:30 a.m. Admission is free.
Sponsors for the Tennessee State BioGENEius Challenge include the University of Tennessee, Pro2Serve Professional Project Services, Inc., UT- Battelle, Eastman Chemical Company, Oak Ridge Associated Universities and Atom Sciences, Inc. The event is organized by the Tennessee Biotechnology Association.
For more information about the Tennessee BioGENEius Challenge or the Sanofi-Aventis Southeast Regional BioGENEius Challenge, contact Terry Copeland at (865) 483-1113. For information regarding the Sanofi-Aventis International BioGENEius Challenge, please visit www.biotechinstitute.org/programs/biogeneius_challenge.html
The Tennessee Biotechnology AssociationCONTACT: Terry Lynn Copeland for The Tennessee Biotechnology Association,+1-865-483-1113, or copeland@atom-sci.com
