It's Scientific!

“Abracadabra! Making water from air,” “Grow or die trying,” “Does exercise make your heart beat faster?”, “Balloons that don’t burst”! If you came to the Delmar-Harvard Science Fair 2010 held in the Science Lab in March, these were some of the great projects you would have seen this year. Any student in Grades K-6 could do an individual project or group project (2-3 students) with the help of a parent or adult mentor. All students in Grades 5-6 do a project as part of the science curriculum. This year we received 46 projects, 3 more than last year, with participants from kindergarten through sixth grade.

Science Fair Co-ordinator parent Priya Sudarsanam organized Science Fair Mentors for each student in fifth and sixth grades. The mentors, graduate students in Biology from the Young Scientist Program at Washington University School of Medicine or scientists and post-doctoral fellows from Washington University labs, met with Delmar-Harvard students twice during the 6 weeks before the fair March 23-24.

The projects were excellent! All projects placed in the first, second or third category with no fourth place finishes. 25 projects were selected to be sent to the Greater St. Louis Science Fair that will be held in Queeny Park from May 4-8, 2010. This is the highest number of projects we have sent to the Fair. Good Luck!

Here are some of the students' projects.