All nine entries are ribbon winners
Nine Mountain Lake Public Elementary School (MLES) entries – earning blue ribbons at the MLES 2015 Science Fair in mid-March – participated this past Saturday, May 25, in 2015 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 entries received the regional science fair’s highest honor – Purple Ribbons.
Those included the following:
Four more entries earned Blue Ribbons.
Those included:
* Eryn Friesen, a sixth-grader, for “What’s that in the Sky?”
* Noah Curry and Mace Herrig, both sixth-graders, for “Kaboom Bang Pop.”
* Olivia Christians – a fifth-grader, for “Germinate Me Right.”
* Brice Anacker, a fourth-grader, for “Layering Liquids.
One entrant was presented a Red Ribbon:
* Mason Fast, a fourth-grader, for “Seed vs. Seed.”
MLES Science Fair coordinators are Pam Osland, elementary library media center paraprofessional and fourth-grade teacher Matt Anderson.
