Westlake Hills teacher a finalist in contest

Steven Latshaw of Westlake Hills Elementary School in Thousand Oaks has been named one of the five teacher finalists in the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

NASA will host the competition finals at the Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C. The teachers will contend for prizes and recognition as America's top Science Teacher of the year.

In this competition, 10 middle school students and five science teachers from across the country were selected as finalists. Students made twominute videos demonstrating their understanding of scientific concepts.

Teachers made their own videos explaining spacerelated concepts, such as Newton's laws of motion, acceleration, aeronautics, centrifugal and centripetal force, and scope and scale.

For details, call Latshaw at (805) 497-9339 or visit www.DiscoveryEducation.com/ YoungScientist.