Two Southeast Missouri residents received awards at The International Science and Engineering Fair last week in Philadelphia

John David Walls of Steele was one of seven teachers to win the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award for outstanding accomplishments as a science educator. Walls is a teacher at South Pemiscot High School in Steele.

Amanda Jeanne Busby, 16, of Kennett was one of nine winners of $500 in fourth awards from Intel in the engineering category. Busby, a student at Kennett High School, presented the project "Spectral Changes in Glass: Phase II."

Top student winners in ninth through 12th grades who were winners at local, regional, state and national science fairs were invited to the competition, which presented grand awards valued at close to $1 million in scholarships, tuition grants and scientific field trips.