Mountain Lake Public Elementary School holds annual Science Fair
Mountain Lake Public Elementary School (MLES) held it 2015 Science Fair this past Friday, March 13, in the elementary gymnasium. Twenty-nine science projects – involving 44 students from grades 3-6 – were entered in the fair. Judging was done by the Mountain Lake Public High School physics classes of Dani Cattrysse.
Of those participating, 15 entries were recognized with blue ribbons. Those entries have the opportunity to advance to the 2015 South Central/Southwest Minnesota Regional Science and Engineering Fair – Elementary Division (Grades 3-6) – on Saturday, April 25, at Myers Field House and Taylor Center on the campus of Minnesota State University-Mankato.
This annual regional fair attracts more than 1,200 projects from southern Minnesota. Nearly 600 volunteer judges and staff personnel take part in the fair.
The science fair project is the culmination of hard work, persistent investigation and in-depth experimentation by the participating student scientists. Taking part in a science fair project gives the student the opportunity to share his or her interests with parents, guardians, relatives, neighbors, teachers and fellow students – as well as the chance to be interviewed by judges.
Participation contributes to the education of students in the thinking process – from formulating the projects to actually doing the experiments and reporting the data. Being a part of this process may mean the beginning of a life-long fascination with science for the student.
To present a science fair project, the student scientists develop a hypothesis, plan a process to test that hypothesis, put that process into motion using various hands-on materials, see the process to it completion and then explain the resultse
Participating Mountain Lake students, their grade level, project titles and ribbon award (blue ribbon winners have the opportunity to advance to the Regional Science Fair) were as follows:
Blue Ribbons –
* Joey Faber (third grade) “Rusty.”
* Kody Wassman (third grade) and Kade Wassman (fifth grade) “Pop’d Corn.”
* Brooke Naas (fourth grade) “Density Tower.”
* Mason Fast (fourth grade) “Seed vs. Seed.”
* Brice Anacker (fourth grade) “Layering Liquids.
* Olivia Christians (fifth grade) “Germinate Me Right.”
* Annelise Regier (sixth grade) “Stains Be Gone.”
* Anika Fast (sixth grade) “Got Milk?”
* Eryn Friesen (sixth grade) “What’s that in the Sky?”
* Kelly Watkins (sixth grade) and Baylee Jepsen (sixth grade) “Buoyancy Boat.”
* Daniel Gardiner (sixth grade) and Hunter Peterson (sixth grade) “Blobs in a Bottle.”
* Sabrina Hanson (sixth grade) “What a Sticky Mess.”
* Delainey Janzen (sixth grade) and Carly Osland (sixth grade) “Electrifying Hair.”
* Preston Karschnik (sixth grade) and Alex Hernandez (sixth grade) “What Makes Dry Ice Fog?”
* Noah Curry (sixth grade) and Mace Herrig (sixth grade) “Kaboom Bang Pop.”
Red Ribbons –
* Alana Morey (fourth grade) “Crystal Creations.”
* Shyann Ober (fourth grade) “Color Changing.”
* Hailey Marx (fourth grade) “Balloon Experiment.”
* Alexis Dunn (fifth grade) “Balloon Blow Up.”
* Faith Simon (fifth grade) and Madison Hartle (fifth grade) “Preventing Bread Mold.”
* Chloe Anacker (fifth grade) and Sierra Perkins (fifth grade) “Delicate Drop.”
* Emmanuel Reyes (sixth grade) and Vicente Ibarra (sixth grade) “Exploding Foam.”
* Hana Bergling (sixth grade) and Hope Doll (sixth grade) “Will Reactions Appear?”
* Kole Markey (sixth grade ) and Jaden Boldt (sixth grade) “The Great Shake Earthquakes.”
* Ethan Nickel (sixth grade) and Jose Garnica (sixth grade) “Catapult Madness.”
* Annika Klassen (sixth grade) and Tahya McKinney (sixth grade) “Water Pusher.”
* Ernesto Garcia De La Cruz (sixth grade) and Juan Lucio (sixth grade) “Bed of Nails.”
* Wendy Tema-Lopez (sixth grade) and Deliela Nunthavong (sixth grade) “Crazy Eyes.”
* Noah Rempel (sixth grade) “Is it Magic? Or is it Science?”
Local Science Fair coordinators are Pam Osland, elementary library media center paraprofessional and fourth-grade teacher Matt Anderson.
