 The 25th annual East Kentucky Regional Science and Engineering Fair is returning to the region March 2. The fair is hosted by the East Kentucky Science Center and the overall winner will win a trip to the Region Aeron International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, California. Five years ago or so we became affiliated with the International Science and Engineering Fair which allowed our students in our 15 county region to go beyond the regional level for the first time and compete at the state level and the international level. So we have a fair every year and we welcome projects from 4 through 12th grades and they work with their teachers or their parents or both and they pick a topic of interest and they work on it, they do experimentation, they collect data, they keep reports and they have a fair at their school and they send their first-place students to our regional fair. Appalachian Community Care offers outpatient medication assisted treatment for addiction, counseling and behavioral play therapy for children accepting Medicare and all major insurance. Recovery is hard, regret is harder. Appalachian Community Care, Pikeville, Whitesburg, 606-432-5660. Find them on Facebook. The fair is open to 4 through 12th grades and features 21 different categories ranging from behavioral science to mathematics. This is a competition, it is competitive and we want people to look at it that way. So the ability to compete, we want good projects, we want quality projects, we want quality projects that have been compiled and you've worked with your parents or your teachers to put together a nice concept and it allows students to network, it gives them amazing critical thinking skills, it allows them to really hone their writing skills, their math skills, it helps them compile practice compiling reports and knowing the difference between the different methods because a lot of our students focus on the scientific method but it is a science and engineering fair so that's a different process and it kind of helps them with that as well. For more information and to register for the fair go to East Kentucky Regional Science and Engineering Fair on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.