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Vigil for Hall is tonight SPECIAL TO THK CHRONICLE = A "Vigil for Healing" will be held this evening (Thursday, Nov. 29) for Constance "Connie" Hall bom S - 5:30 p.m. at the 900 block of Manly Street. On Nov. 21,2011, Hall's body was found in , a Winston-Salem neighborhood two miles from her home. She had been missing for several j weeks. Her murder remains unsolved. She was born on Nov. 29, 1963 in Winston Salem. Hall graduated from Parkland High i scnooi in ivoz i and later from I nursing school, i She loved politics i and volunteered i with the cam- 1 paigns of Sen. 1 Earline Parmon 1 and was involved in the movement to free Darryl 1 Hunt. 1 In the last ; years of her life, she worked at ; Burger King and took care of her elderly father. 1 "She was a crusader for everybody," her mother says of her. In addition to both of her parents, she is survived by six sisters and one brother. To find the vigil site from the intersection of NorthrBroad Street and Northwest Avenue, fol low Thurmond Street north, turn left onto Haywood Street and then left onto Manly Street. The vigil will be at the end of Manly Street, near the Plaza Apartments. Vigils for Healing is an interfaith communi ty ministry for loved ones of homicide victims. The organization's original mission was simply to hold public interfaith spiritual observances at every murder site in Forsyth County. Since that time, its outreach and services have broadened. In case of hard rain or very cold weather, the vigil will be held at Saints Home United Methodist Church, 1390 Thurmond St. For information about the vigil, call 336 816-0565. If you have any information about Connie Hall, call Crimestoppers at 336-727-2800 (En Espanol: 336-728-3904). The call is confiden tial and if the information leads to an anest, the caller is eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000. Hall Cook students getting professional help with science fair projects SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Recently, about 20 stu dents - each accompanied by a parent or grandparent ? gathered in a classroom at Cook Elementary School for an after school workshop that was centered around putting together a science Mr project Standing in front of a mock-up of a science fair in board, Catherine C. Sangueza said that, when designing a project, you need to decide on a hypothe sis - a scientific guess. With that in mind, if you were planning to pack up and move, do you think bubble wrap, newspapers or paper towels would do the but job protecting your drinking glasses? "Bubble wrap is the best," called out second grader Shyyon Brim. All but one of the other students agreed. "Our hypothesis is bub ble wrap is going to do the best job," said Sangueza, a community research associ ate with the Translational Science Institute at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, the workshop sponsor. When it came time to test the hypothesis, eggs wrapped in bubble wrap, newspaper or paper towels stood in for drinking glasses. When you're experimenting, you want to control the vari ables, of course, and fifth grader Monet Williford was happy to establish a set height for the drops by hav ing each student release his or her egg from in front of Monet's forehead. When each egg landed. Or. LaChelle Waller, an issistant professor for the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research who organized the workshop, would pick it up uid determine whether it lad survived the fall intact. When she called out the result, Deanna Whitehead, who teaches fifth-grade reading at Cook, recorded the results on a chart. At the end of the experi ment's first round, newspa per was clearly the inferior padding. It had the highest rate of breakage. Bubble wrap and paper towels had tlfc same rate of breakage. What to do? Change the height variable, said the stu dents. Waller did that by climbing up on a top of a desk and reaching straight out to drop the next round of eggs. From the greater height, bubble wrap was clearly the superior padding. After the students got an understanding of how a sci ence fair experiment could be set up, they partnered with one of the adults volun teering to serve as a mentor. The volunteers were a mix of undergraduates, graduate students, medical-school students and professors from Wake Forest, Salem College, Winston-Salem State, N.C. A&T and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. One of the program's goals is to encourage stu dents to consider a career in science, which is a big rea son why Carly Kemmis, an assistant professor in biolo gy at Winston-Salem State, decided to volunteer. "I think we need to get students interested in sci ence at an early age," she said. Kemmis sat down with Shyyon's fourth-grade sister, Shacarriya Gillis, and their mother, LaTasha Oillis, to come up with some ideas. Shacarriya likes plants. Because a sunflower grows so tall, she decided to work from the hypothesis that it would grow faster from seed rather than another kind of plant. Bryan Cox, a graduate student in molecular medi cine at the medical school, sat down with fifth-grader Nia Butch and her mother, Shameka O'Neil. Cox pulled out a copy of a book called 501 Science Experiments and they start ed flipping through looking for inspiration. In the end, Nia decided that she liked the idea of answering the question: "How do different materials affect resistance?" by designing small para chutes out of such materials as a handkerchief, a plastic bag and paper. Later, the group will gather back at Cook for a dry-run science fair to show off and to fine-tune their projects. With more than one student picturing a first place ribbon in their future, lots of friendly competition lies ahead. The tcience mentors hail from local universities. A student releases one of the eggs. 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