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Dunlap, Ill. —
The third year of the science fair at Dunlap Valley Middle School is the biggest the school has seen, according to seventh-grade science teacher Brooke Joseph.
The fair this year, which took place on Thursday, had 251 projects in it made by 329 students from sixth- through eighth-grade.
“This is the most projects we’ve ever had and we’re very thankful to have parent-volunteers to help us,” Joseph said.
Students started their projects in September by pairing up, if they wanted to, and making a question and hypothesis.
“They have to choose their projects and they have research it,” Joseph said. “They design their own experiment and then they do their experiment. Then they put together a presentation for it.”
Both her and Stephanie Gleason, the eighth-grade science teacher, noted that all experiments are done outside of school.
Some of the more memorable ones seen this year included two wood burning projects, one by Katie Duffy and Courtney Levitt, and the other by Katie Taylor, the ‘Comparison Between Processing Auditory and Visual Information” project, by Sarah Xu and the “Are Permanent Markers Really Permanent?” project by Gabe Cross.
“I liked the ‘Are Permanent Markers Really Permanent?’ That was a new one that I hadn’t seen,” Joseph said.
After finishing their projects, presentations were made in class the week before the fair, and judging was done during the morning of the fair.
Judges handing out first- through third-place ribbons, as well as participant ribbons. They also named projects from the seventh and eighth grade that will go on to the regional science fair.
“We have 20 projects and probably around 25 students,” Joseph said of the regional fair qualifiers.
The third year of the science fair at Dunlap Valley Middle School is the biggest the school has seen, according to seventh-grade science teacher Brooke Joseph.
The fair this year, which took place on Thursday, had 251 projects in it made by 329 students from sixth- through eighth-grade.
“This is the most projects we’ve ever had and we’re very thankful to have parent-volunteers to help us,” Joseph said.
Students started their projects in September by pairing up, if they wanted to, and making a question and hypothesis.
“They have to choose their projects and they have research it,” Joseph said. “They design their own experiment and then they do their experiment. Then they put together a presentation for it.”
Both her and Stephanie Gleason, the eighth-grade science teacher, noted that all experiments are done outside of school.
Some of the more memorable ones seen this year included two wood burning projects, one by Katie Duffy and Courtney Levitt, and the other by Katie Taylor, the ‘Comparison Between Processing Auditory and Visual Information” project, by Sarah Xu and the “Are Permanent Markers Really Permanent?” project by Gabe Cross.
“I liked the ‘Are Permanent Markers Really Permanent?’ That was a new one that I hadn’t seen,” Joseph said.
After finishing their projects, presentations were made in class the week before the fair, and judging was done during the morning of the fair.
Judges handing out first- through third-place ribbons, as well as participant ribbons. They also named projects from the seventh and eighth grade that will go on to the regional science fair.
“We have 20 projects and probably around 25 students,” Joseph said of the regional fair qualifiers.
