Student Team Places 2nd in Nation in Toshiba Competition CLAYTON-- East Clayton Elementary School Exceptional Children's teacher Rebecca Bettis and four of her students have placed second in the nation in the 2006 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision innovative science awards competition. In March, the student team was one of six chosen in their region as finalists for their creation of a vision of a new technology-- The Globe 9000-- and one of only 24 in the United States and Canada. They competed against thousands of entries. In that competition round, each child received a DVD player, and the classroom received a Toshiba laptop. As a result fot heir national ranking, they will each receive $5,000 and an all-expense paid trip top Washington, D.C. to demonstrate their product. For this compeition, the students creates a prototype of their technology, and had to graphically depict it on the website.
