Students at First Baptist Christian School were all engrossed with the sciences last Friday.
In the school’s gym, students answered questions and demonstrated results of their scientific experiment to a panel of judges, visitors and teachers.
Head of Science Karen Cilliers, said it was good experience for the students and was quite impressed with what the students had accomplished.
The science fair concentrated on problems that reflected the island’s concerns such as cleaner water, recycling, the environment and solar power. The workshop also introduced the process of scientific experimentations to the younger students to challenge them to become involved in the sciences, Ms Cilliers said.
“Grades 3 and 4 came together as a class and participated in group projects to construct their own projects and I was quite impressed with the results,” she said. “Having the students projects judged by outsiders was good for student morals and would give them more experience and exposure when it came to taking part in science fairs.”
The event offers students an opportunity to display their scientific acumen, as well as compete with their peers to see who can come up with the most innovative and captivating experiment.
There were a number of scientific experiments on display, including Amanda Robinson’s demonstration about how water could be used as a source of power to lift things and contribute to electricity.
Azuka Obi drew his idea from solar energy by way of a solar thermal powered plant, while Amy Rousseau worked on not throwing anything away but finding a way to reuse items with her pollutions and solutions experiment.
Daria Mckenzie was working on a way for the environment to stop cutting down trees and replanting more so animals could survive.
Even a sweet treat experiment was undertaken at the science fair. Sharia Barnett found a treatment by using hot water to keep her strawberries fresh.
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