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Mountain Lake Public Elementary School holds annual Science Fair

 

 

Mountain Lake Public Elementary School (MLES) held it 2017 Science Fair this past Friday, March 17, in the elementary library. Fifteen science projects – involving 17 students from grades 3-6 – were entered in the fair. Judging was done by the Mountain Lake Public High School physics classes of Jayme Fast.

Of those participating, eight entries were recognized with blue ribbons. Those entries have the opportunity to advance to the 2017 South Central/Southwest Minnesota Regional Science and Engineering Fair – Elementary Division (Grades 3-6) – on Saturday, April 29, 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

+ Kelby Janzen (Third Grade) – “Get the Stain Out.”

+ Aidan Olson (Third Grade) – “Color-Changing Carnations.”

+ Braxton Brown (Third Grade) – “.”Elasticity.”

+ Ashlyn Pfeiffer (Third Grade) – “Plant Science.”

+ Landen Rempel (Fourth Grade) – “Grow! Grow! Grow!”

+ Kody Wassman (Fifth Grade) – “The Liquid 500.”

+ Brice Anacker (Sixth Grade) – “Homemade Lava Lamp.”

+ Brooke Naas (Sixth Grade) – “Will it Rust?”

Red Ribbons

+ Julie Brinkman (Third Grade) – “Flower Power.”

+ Aleena Vetsouvanh (Third Grade) – “Play Dough.”

+ Phitsada Phoumivong/Khloe Saelee (Third Grade) – “What Tissue is the Strongest?”

+ Ian Richardson (Third Grade) – “Water Filtration.”

+ Alexus Lopez (Fourth Grade) – “Do Gummi Worms and Gummi Bears Grow?”

+ Thaila Sengchan/Trinh Dang-Teumboun (Fourth Grade) – “Slime Battle.”

+ Brie Anacker (Fourth Grade) – “Edible Beads.”

Local Science Fair coordinators are Pam Osland, elementary library media center paraprofessional and Amy Hartzler, school social worker.

Below is a photo gallery from the 2016 MLES Science Fair:

2017 MOUNTAIN LAKE Public Elementary School Science Fair participants and their awards. Front, from left, Brooke Naas (blue ribbon), Kody Wassman (blue ribbon), Aidan Olson (blue ribbon) and Kelby Janzen (blue ribbon). Middle, from left, rice Anacker (blue ribbon), Landen Rempel (blue ribbon), Braxton Brown (blue ribbon) and Ashlyn Pfeiffer (blue ribbon). Back, from left, Ian Richardson (red ribbon), Alexus Lopez (red ribbon), Aleena Vetsouvanh (red ribbon), Brie Anacker (red ribbon), Thaila Sengchan (red ribbon), Trinh Dang-Teumboun (red ribbon), Phitsada Phoumivong (red ribbon), Khloe Saelee (red ribbon) and Julia Brinkman (red ribbon).
SIXTH-GRADER BRICE Anacker, left, explains his experiment on making a homemade lava lamp to senior physics student, Lexia Peters, right. Students in Jayme Fast’s physics class were judges for he Science Fair.
CHECKING OUT WHAT will rust – and what won’t – with her Science Fair experiment was sixth-grade student Brooke Naas, left. Above, she shares what she learned with Aaron Fast, right, a senior in the physics class.
“THE LIQUID 500” was the focus of fifth-grader Kody Wassman’s experiment. Above, Kody, left, is questioned about his process and results by Kalley Rempel, right, a senior from the physics class.
SENIOR ANDREW FAST, left, from Jayme Fast’s physics class, marks his checklist while fourth-grade student Landen Rempel, right, waits anxiously for the next set of questions about his science experiment, “Grow! Grow! Grow!”
IN FRONT OF her sprouting corn, third-grader Ashlyn Pfeiffer, left, has a serious discussion with senior physics student Yahayra Sanchez, right, about the results of her experiment.
LIANA BLOMGREN, LEFT, a senior from the physics class, discovers what information third-grade student Braxton Brown, right, found out while he worked on his experiment about the stretchiness of elasticity.
CARNATIONS OF MANY colors. Third-grader Aidan Olson, left, used his Science Fair experiment to do research about color-changing carnations. Above, he explains his notes to Lily Kauffman, right, a senior in Jayme Fast’s physics class.
THIRD-GRADER KELBY Janzen, right, looks up to Sam Hirsch, left, a senior physics student, as she answers his questions related to her discoveries about removing stains.
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