Thursday, March 17, 2011

Science Fair: Students Exhibiting their Science Projects

Grades 7-10 Science Projects and Experiments


If you wanted to participate in this years science fair, you needed to have worked very hard. All of us who were interested in participating had to write out a plan with our project outline and materials we needed from the school, then give it to the teacher designated to each science - Biology, Chemistry or Physics; some of us had more than one experiment and therefore had to write out multiple plans for our experiments. Thankfully I chose to do only one, and that alone was exhausting.

Once our teachers gave us the OK on our plans we had to test out our experiment if our projects included one, and show our teacher our findings. After recording our findings we had to begin making our posters, which was in my opinion the hardest part since we still had normal schoolwork to keep up with and had to use any free time we had to make sure we had enough displays and posters to make our stalls stand out.

After ordering all our needed equipment from Ms Najwa weeks in advance, we gathered all our needed equipment from her a day in advance and spent our breaks setting up everything for the big day.

On the day of the science fair everything was hectic, of course. The grade nines and tens were set up on one side of the gym and the grade sevens and eights on the other side; other students who did not participate filed in one after another in grade-wise and we barely had time to take a sip of water. Then the long awaited judges came in the fourth lesson to judge us. Dr Al Ali from AUS and Mr Deeb Abdullah were the grade 7 and 8 judges, Dr Al Ali also judged the grade 9 and 10s, as well as Ms Varghese and Pr Omar Adwan, also from AUS. They all had pieces of paper specific to each stall and marked us on different parts of our projects from how we presented it to how original it was. 

In the last lesson a play was performed by the grade nines, after the winners announced.
Congratulations to all the winners and a very big thanks to all the teachers and all of the Science Fair Committee—we would never have been able to do it without you!

-Sarah Zoubi 9I




The annual Science Fair was held on the 17th of March, 2011, and was nothing less than perfect. With our creative and young future scientists, the science fair was a greater success than usual, with diverse experiments such as ‘Cup of Lava’, a hovercraft, ‘Types of Aspirin’, ‘Extraction of DNA from a Strawberry’ and lots more.

The Science Fair also held a unique variety of research projects, such as, ‘How Music Affects Homework’, ‘How Caffeine Affects Typing’ (this was mine) and ‘How Age Affects Memory’ to name a few. There was a poster competition  between grade 5 and 6. These were mini projects created by these youngsters and were displayed for the work  be judged. There were some very creative and informative projects which really did give many of us an addition to our knowledge despite being made by younger children.

Also, there was a separate category for grade 7, and another for grade 8. In each set of categories, there was a great spark of creativity and a whole lot of competition, only a winner and a runner-up being awarded in each grade.

Then there was the bomb of the day. The category of grades 9 and 10. There were such creative, inventive and original projects and experiments that everyone was amazed and choosing the winners were very tough. The experiments and projects ranged from ‘how listening to Mozart’s music can affect short term memory’ to a ’live  dissection’  which won 2nd place.

Overall, the science fair 2011 was a great experience for all participants and an amazing exhibit put with the help of science teachers and the grade 10 Science Committee for the audience and judges.

-Tuba Ahmed 9S











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