SCIENCE STARS: A team from Enloe High School finished in the top 16 on Monday at the National Science Bowl.

The Enloe students competed in a Jeopardy-like game pitting the nation's best high school science minds against one another to answer questions on biology, physics, astronomy and more. In the process, the Enloe students took on teams representing 67 high schools across the United States.

The members of the Enloe team are Daniel Vitek, Hao Lian, Vivek Bhattacharya, Ranjan Banerjee and Ashwin Srikrishna. The coach is Brian Wood. Their performance means Enloe's science department will win $1,000.

The team from Enloe, a magnet school in Raleigh, made it to the nationals after winning the state competition in January.

The Science Bowl is a project of the U.S. Department of Energy. The nationals took place in Washington, D.C.

SCHOLARSHIP: Cargill Inc. has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Robert Fleming of Raleigh, a member of the class of 2008 at Broughton High School, as part of the Cargill Community Scholarship Program. Fleming plans to attend UNC-Chapel Hill.

Broughton will receive $200 from Cargill to support its library.

The company gives 350 awards each year in communities where it has a presence. Winners are chosen based on academic achievement and participation in extracurricular and civic activities.

Cargill is a provider of food, agricultural and risk management produces and services.

DURHAM COUNTY

MOVING UP: Elizabeth Shearer has been named principal of the new City of Medicine Academy opening in August.

Shearer is principal of Lakewood Elementary School and has served as an administrator and special education teacher.

The City of Medicine Academy prepares students for health-related fields. The program will move from Southern High School to a leased space near Durham Regional Hospital while a permanent school is being built.

MATH & SCIENCE WINNERS: Six Lowe's Grove Middle School students placed at a recent state competition of the Math Science Education Network at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Sylvia Jones and Alexis Pena placed in the Algebra I competition; Meagan Raviele and Devin Holman placed in the pre-Algebra contest; Trevor Hamlet placed in the seventh-grade science contest; Alex Cox placed in the eighth-grade science competition.

WRITING AWARD: Lilli Fisher, a student at the Durham School of the Arts, has won the National Scholastic Silver Key award from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.

HILLSIDE SCHOLAR: Hillside High School senior Callie Womble has been named a Gates Millennium Scholar.

She is one of 1,000 students nationwide to receive the honor, out of more than 13,000 applicants for the awards from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for minority students with significant financial needs.

Womble plans to double major in biology and psychology at Winston-Salem State University.