Lt. Gov. Risch Recognizes Centennial High School Student for Win in 2008 DuPont Challenge© Science Essay Competition On May 20, with the help of ICIE and The Discovery Center of Idaho, Idaho Lt. Gov. James E. Risch and Todd Flick, plant manager with DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred, recognized Nicole Clark, a sophomore at Centennial High School who won the competition with an essay on “Spider Silk: The World's Strongest Fiber.” The DuPont Challenge© began in 1986 and honors the memory of the heroes of the Challenger space shuttle and all who work to encourage the next generation to explore the frontiers of science. The DuPont Challenge©, sponsored by DuPont in collaboration with The Walt Disney World® Resort, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), is one of the foremost student science and technology competitions in North America. The program objective is to increase scientific literacy among students and to motivate students to excel in communicating scientific ideas. First place winners in each division receive a $3,000 educational grant plus an all-expense-paid trip to Walt Disney World© and the Kennedy Space Center . The 2008 competition received more than 10,000 entries from all 50 states and Canada .

The Idaho Council on Industry and the Environment (ICIE) is a nonprofit, non-partisan group formed in 1989 to focus discussion of the environment on the facts. Our goal is to establish reasonable, balanced dialogue and to create support for factual, open discussion of environmental issues. Our membership includes individuals, associations and businesses.

With the challenges facing natural resource industries and their employees, ICIE is an important tool to foster full and open discussion based on fact and science-not emotion and rhetoric.

The future offers unlimited opportunities for ICIE to bring reason and science to environmental debates-if you help. We need the facts on water and air quality, energy issues, mining, salmon recovery, agriculture, national forest management. These issues will decide the future health of enterprises from tourism to computer chip production and the prosperity of American workers.

Your membership is a cost effective way to guarantee that environmental laws and regulations are based on fact, not fiction. It will bring another voice to the environmental debate-a voice based on science and reason.

The mission of the Idaho Council on Industry and the Environment (ICIE) is to facilitate the use of science and facts in shaping public policy on environmental issues.

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