Grade 5 students medal at regional science fair
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- Published on Thursday, April 30, 2015
Photo by Kate Jackman-Atkinson
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
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On March 17, 24 Grade 5 students from Hazel M Kellington School in Neepawa went to Brandon to take part in the Western 水果视频 Science Fair. After presenting their projects at the HMK science symposium, these students opted to take their projects to the regional science fair, where they competed against more than 470 projects and 680 participants. Grade 5 teacher Sylvie Tomoniko helped organize the trip.
The projects had to be based on one the units studied as part of the Grade 5 science curriculum. After finding their places and setting up their displays, each student was interviewed about their project by two or more volunteer judges. On April 23, the students received their judges鈥� comments and were presented with their medals.
Bronze medals were won by Dawson Jakubowski for his project 鈥淐ontemplating Corrosion鈥�, Liam Major and Dustin Cook for 鈥淧anicking Pulses鈥�, Ty Joss and Ethan Lizotte for 鈥淢emory Madness鈥�, Arwen Chapman for 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Popping鈥� and Bryce Christopherson for 鈥淪uper Cool Sounds鈥�. Silver medals were won by Sidney Poettcker for 鈥淟ive, Love, Light鈥� and Cheska Siopongco and Micaela Tamorada for 鈥淭he Fizzy Egg鈥�.
Receiving honourable mentions were: Macy Wither and Hailey Pasloski for 鈥淭aste This!鈥�; Kyla Wahoski and Kiana Gunnarson-Epp for 鈥淕erm Invasion鈥�; Shane Kuharski and Brennah McLaughlin for 鈥淪neaky Stealthy Sugars鈥�; Ashton McGhie for 鈥淐atapult Chaos鈥�; Chlark Wandag for 鈥淓xtreme Catapult鈥�, Nathan Babcock and Andreas Holm for 鈥淗ow鈥檚 it Growing鈥�; Jacob McCharles and Lennon Carr for 鈥淐haotic Catapults鈥� and Miranda Kasprick and Jenna Bray for 鈥淏attle of the Sugars鈥�.
Ty Joss and Ethan Lizotte鈥檚 project 鈥淢emory Madness鈥� looked at the effect exercise has on memory. The students, who are interested in athletics, wanted to find a project that took this focus into account. The students conducted their experiment at school using other students as test subjects. The experiment took about 20 minutes and then they said it took quite a bit of time to analyze the data and prepare their display.
Cheska Siopongco and Micaela Tamorada鈥檚 project 鈥淭he Fizzy Egg鈥� looked at the decay of an egg in various solutions to simulate the decay of tooth enamel. The girls especially liked getting the judges鈥� feedback, including learning new information related to their project. Their project was time consuming, as Cheska and Micaela had to record measurements of decay each day as the project progressed.
Sidney Poettcker鈥檚 鈥淟ive, Love, Light鈥� experiment looked at measuring light. She enjoyed learning about the importance of light to humanity. Doing the experiment took about four hours.
Dawson Jakubowski鈥檚 鈥淐ontemplating Corrosion鈥� looked at the corrosion of different kinds of metal. Dustin originally planned to do a different project, but this one fit better with Grade 5 curriculum. The project took a little while to gather the different metals and supplies and it took a few more days to prepare the display boards.
Liam Major and Dustin Cook鈥檚 鈥淧anicking Pulses鈥� project looked at the effect of aggressive video games on pulse rates. They found that playing more violent video games did result in a higher pulse rate. Liam and Dustin wanted to the study the effect of playing video games and with Mrs. Tomoniko鈥檚 help, decided to focus on pulse rates. They spent about two hours conducting their experiment.
Bryce Christopherson鈥檚 鈥淪uper Cool Sounds鈥� project looked at different sounds. Overall, the medal winners enjoyed doing their experiments and seeing the results. The science fair project also proved to be a good opportunity for students to spend some time with their parents. Many parents played an active role in helping the students source the materials for the projects and some helped with the experiments themselves.
