WARRENTON — It’s a proud day when you bring home the trophy for your school. It’s even prouder when it’s the first trophy ever.

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The 3-year-old Warren New Tech High now boasts its first school trophy after a team of students took second in the regional division of the North Carolina Science Fair. Students Rebeccah Batts, Chris Caldwell and Hillary Frazier are hoping they make it as far as Las Vegas in the nationals with their original project. The team placed highly in the school and county divisions. If they win at the state level in March, they will compete at a national level in Las Vegas.

The project, entitled “Burn Bambi Burn,” was to determine which of several remedies will best help heal a second-degree burn. “I never expected to win,” said Batts, “I’m so excited! We’re the only ones from Warren County who won!”

The team used deer hide from a recent hunt for their experiment. Using similar sized pieces in a nutrient medium, they made second-degree burns on the skin and then used products like aloe, butter, silver sulfur nitrate, processed and organic honey. “People have a lot of questions about how the skin stays alive, but the Knox gelatin has everything in it to feed the skin. It actually grew little veins down into the medium,” she said.

The team found organic honey was the best medium to facilitate healing. They were judged on presentation, knowledge of their project and overall quality of the project. This is the only team going to the regionals from Warren County. They will compete on the state level at Meredith College in Raleigh on March 28.