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The Sun in Anne Arundel Tuesday, March 18, 1997 Page 3b WEST COUNTY Science fair produces middle school winners Centra L.x, fv i .4 AimaKW By Vicki Wellford CONTRIBUTING WRITER Neighbors I 1 i v--' i Jv BARBARA HADDOCK TAYLOR SUN STAFF PHOTOS Creator: Steven Fischer works on the hair and makeup for Bluey and Steve, his cartoon characters, in a studio at TCI cable system in Baltimore. He would like to eventually develop a fully animated half-hour show. Blueg the dog, Steve try TV ARUNDEL MIDDLE school's science fair was a huge success, with more than 90 projects by seventh- and eighth-grade students and judging by the length of the list of winners, there weren't many who didn't walk away with some recognition. Seventh-grade winners Botany: first place, Katie Kwlatkawski; second place, Shannon Jewell; third place, Steve Wasiscewicz, Sheila Bailey and Jessica Upchurch; honorable mention, Sheila Bailey and Jessica Upchurch. Zoology: first place, Amy Gorman; second place, Jessica Gouff and Erin Kutsch; third place, Evan Beavers.

Chemistry: first place, Maria Miller, second place, Emily Higgins, Melissa White and Sean Dolan, third place, April Zimmerman and Matt Johnson; honorable mention, Amanda Knapp, Pam Mulherin, Rachel More land and Tiffany Boiler. Biochemistry: first place, Julianne Ferguson, April Watts and Ashley Downs; second place, Candl Scarborough; third place, Caitlin Reinhardt. Engineering: first place, YizenlaMarcano; second place, Andrew Jaegar and Daniel Myers; third place, Nathan Curtis; honorable mention, Carl Schauerman, Jason Lively, Charlotte Westover and Jessica Alexander. Miscellaneous: first place, Craig Newcomer; second place, Laura Dietrich; third place, Mike Massabni; honorable mention, John Logan and Deslree Tester. Eighth-grade winners Physics: first place, Kyle Tribett; second place, Barton Maxwell; third place, Joan Wilton.

Botany: first place, Diane Newcomer and Sarah Yenoli; second place, Bradley Hurst and Jessica Piercy, third place, David Meredith and Ryan McDonald. Medicine: first place, Philip Blachly; second place, Beth Hughes; third place, Matt Coulter. Chemistry: first place, Jessica Edwards; second place, Danny Haberman and Catharine Ramsey; third place, Brady Wise and Lindsay Box. Earth Science: first place, Eddie Nottwottnick; second place, Neelum Khattak; third place, Lara Paollni. Consumer Science: first place, Alisa Ross; second place, Tim Ale; third place, Cory Marshall.

Miscellaneous: first place, Michelle Schweinsburg; second place, Lindsay Robinson; third place, Joe Andrucyk. Plenty of pasta Two area churches are having spaghetti dinners Saturday: United Methodist Men of Nichols-Bethel United Methodist Church will have its annual spaghetti dinner from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the church hall on Murray Road in Odenton. The menu is all-you-can-eat spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, salad bar, dessert, coffee, tea and punch.

Cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children 6 to 12. Children under 6 eat free. To buy tickets, call Owen Cooper at 410-674-6145 or the church office at 410-674-2272. Trinity United Methodist Church will have a spaghetti supper from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. The menu includes spaghetti, meatballs, bread, butter, salad and beverage.

Cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children 6 to 11. Children under 6 eat free. The church is at 956 Patuxent Road, OdentonWoodwardville. more like a close relationship with the spirit world. Bluey is just one of those spirits that comes through in the form of a dog." Fischer films the segments at TCI using combinations of paper cutouts of the characters, backgrounds and camera motions such as panning or zooming to add a sense of action.

Fischer recently recorded the voices and sound effects for two episodes at TCI. In one, Guthrie stepped in as the voices for guests on Steve and Bluey's radio call-in show. In the other, Bluey attempts to make the perfect piece of toast "not un-derburnt, not overburnt, but burnt just enough" aggravating Steve, who wants to use the toaster. Fischer said he prides himself on the wholesome characters. "I'm trying to make them role models," he said.

"They are not the kind that are going to demean someone to get a laugh." Cartoon: Steven Fischer developed his diameters when he was a lad in the earlg 1980s, llieir development has grown to the point that he is using them in spots with sound effects on Baltimore 's cable television svslem. By Tanya Jones Steven Fischer of Gambrills has grand plans for the cartoon comedy team he invented a decade ago Bluey the blue dog and his human partner with big hair, Steve. They are hosts of a radio show. They perform their comic routine in palaces. The sky is the limit when you're creating an entertainment career on paper.

But in real life, to get Steve and Bluey where they are today, Fischer, 24, has put in long hours drawing, writing scripts, recording voices and learning the ins and outs of production. His characters star in two-minute segments between programs on Baltimore's cable Channel 58, which is dedicated to locally produced educational and community programs. The spots a series of still drawings with voice-overs and sound effects serve as fillers between shows that don't take up an entire time slot. "There's no other place on the dial that's doing anything like that right now," said Phillip Guthrie, program and production manager at TCI, the city's cable television system, and an occasional voice in the spots. "Plus, it's like a training ground for him." Though hardly glamorous, the "In a Minute" segments, which air once or twice a day, are a step for Fischer on the way to his goal of producing a fully animated half-hour show or expanding into radio and other formats.

"My whole life is work and specifically the work with Steve and Bluey because that's what I feel I should be doing," said Fischer, a television producer and director and a film major at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. "It's Just such an inexplainable feeling that this is why I was given these characters. This is what they should be doing." The characters grew out of the skits Fischer and his older sister Michele wrote and recorded when they were children. Fischer began drawing characters to go with the skits in the early 1980s. And Steve and Bluey had their debuts in a cartoon strip in the Crofton Neighborhood Gazette in 1989.

After a year of college, Fischer moved to England in 1991 when his father, a Defense Department employee, was transferred. In England, he started shopping around the idea of a half-hour animated show to the British Broadcasting Corp. and elsewhere. Fischer has saved hundreds of rejection letters he has received over the years and he is planning to count them all when he produces the half-hour show. He got the break at TCI last year after working as an intern for a semester.

He performs the voice of mild-mannered Steve and the high-pitched, nasal voice of manic Bluey. "It's something that scares a lot of people," Fischer said of his ability to "channel" the characters. "But it's something controlled. It's Carpet Creations Inc. South Where to find your neighborhood new 4 Annapolis-South County: Annapolis, Edgewater, Mayo, Davidsonville, Shady Side, Deale, Galesville, Harwood and Friendship.

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