The Science Fair at the Junior High School was a scientific, collaborative success! Students’ research projects were creative, thought provoking, and extremely well presented. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Amy Sichel, students, parents, teachers, and other administrators had the pleasure of touring the Fair and speaking with students about their research and results.
This year there were 350 well-researched and presented projects created by seventh and eighth grade junior high school students. Science Department Chair Mr. Timothy Keller characterized the projects as interesting to the students, highly creative in their approach, and implemented very well. Collaboration, a characteristic sought after by industry and science, was extremely evident as students conferred and worked with each other, worked with faculty, and worked with parents. There were many parents, teachers, and staff present and more students stayed after school to tour the Fair and confer with each other. According to science teacher Dr. Morgan Hurm, projects this year were more elaborate, created a great deal of data, graphs were very well done, and conversations among students, staff, and parents employed very high level scientific vocabulary. Dr. Sichel commented that she learned a great deal from the projects and was encouraged to see a great number of female students performing research and presenting their results.
Selected projects will be presented at the Montgomery County Research Competition where the junior high school students typically do very well.
A video is being created, which should be available in the near future on our school district cable TV stations and our website.
