Seven entries are all ribbon winners
Seven Mountain Lake Public Elementary School (MLES) entries – all earning blue ribbons at the MLES 2015 Science Fair held at the school on Friday, March 17 – participated this past Saturday, April 29, in the 2017 South Central/Southwest Minnesota Regional Science and Engineering Fair – Elementary Division (Grades 3-6). The event is held in 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 results.
Four received the regional fair’s highest honor – Purple Ribbons.
Those participants included the following:
+ Kelby Janzen – 3rd grade – “Get the Stain Out.”
+ Ashlyn Pfeiffer – 3rd Grade – “Plant Science.”
+ Landen Rempel – 4th Grade – “Grow! Grow! Grow!”
+ Kody Wassman – 5th Grade – “The Liquid 500.”
Three more entries earned Blue Ribbons.
They included:
+ Aidan Olson – 3rd Grade – “Color-Changing Carnations.”
+ Braxton Brown – 3rd Grade – ”Elasticity.”
+ Brice Anacker – 6th Grade – “Homemade Lava Lamp.”
MLES Science Fair coordinators are Pam Osland, elementary library media center paraprofessional and school social worker Amy Hartzler.
Below are photos of the regional science fair ribbon winners at the local contest, being judged by physics students Mountain Lake Public High School Science Teacher Jayme Fast:
