Burroughs High School sophomores Amy Lee and Thomas Wooding from Ridgecrest topped the list of Kern County students earning awards at the 58th annual California Science Fair which concluded May 19 in Los Angeles. Lee and Wooding, who did very well by earning second place honors at the Kern County Science Fair in March, took their project to the top in the state competition winning in the senior division Mammalian Biology category with their entry, “Lead Bullets Poisoned the Condors, Are Grizzly Bears Next?” The Ridgecrest winners showed how animals killed by lead bullets were poisoning condors and grizzly bears who fed on their remains. “We simulated a condor and bear stomach, used chemicals to show if poison was present after the introduction of lead and copper, allowed a digestion period of five hours and used filtering paper to determine the results,” Lee said. Lee and Wooding were the top finishers among 18 Kern County students who earned honors for their mathematical and scientific methodology skills at the California Science Center competition. More