February 24 2017 MCS Science Fair
Students prepared research and inquiry based Science projects intended to answer a question of their choosing. In order to find an answer to their question students first researched their topic by finding similar experiments and relevant science concepts. Next they made a hypothesis based on their research. The hypothesis predicted the relationship between their independent (Changed) and Dependent (Measured) variables. After they had a hypothesis, they designed and implemented a test of that hypothesis. Once numeric data was collected during testing, students analyzed the data by graphing it on a spreadsheet. Once the data was carefully considered, students decided if their hypothesis was correct or not and wrote a conclusion stating explaining why. Finally, students wrote a summary of their project called an abstract, and they arranged all of their information on a poster board. From February 21-23 Students presented their poster to a panel of Judges who selected 3 winners from Each Grade. Special Awards were also selected by Mark Pendergrass.
Results
Special Awards
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William Tritt 8th- “Color Advantage”
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Ben Hershey “Under the Lights”
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Lauren Buhmann “Calling all Germaphobes”
Awards by Grade
Grade 6
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Ellie Haigney “Regeneration Acceleration”
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Owen Dinklage “Experiment with Evaporation”
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Jared Kennedy “Mud is better than Wind Water or Flubber”
Grade 7
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Wolfie Davis “Wind Turbine Efficiency”
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Julien Buttolph “Materials Affecting WiFi Signal”
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Chris Haigney “Chris’s Bridge is Falling Down”
Grade 8
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Juliette Hasenberg Hyperaccumulators: A solution to lake Pollution”
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Tie -George Huffman “Crash Text Dummy” and Charlotte Vincent “Dusting for Dollars”
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Ethan Hoak “Cloudy with a Chance of Energy”
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Mark Pendergrasscience
Middle School Science Teacher
mpendergrass@mcschool.org