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Show nmimmm iznz: PGHS Hosts District Science Fair The District Science Fair was held at Pleasant Grove High School on March 1 through 3. The Elementary winners were Cathryn van Dijk, Lauryn Piatt, Ciara Warburton, Kinsee Gaillard, Ryan O'Loughlin, Camden L. Clark, Austin Ivie, Talia Johnson, and Brianna Simpson. The seventh and eighth grade winners were Shannon Smith, Eli Hebdon, and Sarah van Dijk. The ninth through twelfth grade winners were Kallee Gardner, Alex Beeston, Joseph Ivie, Kayla Bowman, Connor Con-nor Bowman, Allison Leavitt, Angela Thornton, Cassandra Belliston, Hannah Belliston, Mekell Craft, Bronte Hebdon, Marlee Whetten, Lindsey Greer, Grant Evelyn, Hayden Dobyns, Brennan Burnett, Kirsten Marquis, Mar-quis, Eliza Shumway, Kyrstin Millett, Wyatt Duclos, Chance dinger, Thomas Clay, Garth Lee and Caleb Wolthius. Each school in Alpine School District held their own science fair and were allotted a certain number of projects that they were allowed to send to the District Science Fair based on the number of students that did projects at their schools. , Students did projects in many different categories including in-cluding computers, behavior, chemistry, microbiology, earth, physics, etc. There were over 500 elementary school projects and the top 120 were awarded a medal, certificate of recognition and the opportunity to go on to compete at the regional level. In addition to the top 120 winners, win-ners, the next 100 projects were awarded an honorable mention award and medal. At the secondary level, there were over 200 projects and the top 75 were awarded a medal, certificate of recognition and the opportunity to go on to compete at the regional level. The winners from the District Dis-trict Science Fair then go on to compete at the regional level. The regional level is called the Central Utah Science and Engineering Engi-neering Fair (CUSEF). It is held at BYU on March 21 through 24. Students will be given die chance to compete for many awards, cash prizes, and even scholarships for every category. There are cash prizes for the top seven projects in every category, catego-ry, as well as specialty awards. The top five projects will also be selected and awarded an all expenses paid one week trip to Los Angeles to compete at the International Science and Engineering Engi-neering Fair David van Dijk, the Science teacher at PGHS, has been doing the District Science Fair at Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School for the past eight or nine years. He said, "I think that it is a really valuable tool to proper science education. It encourages both students and teachers to get out of the textbook, text-book, videos and worksheets, and into the world Of hands-on active science. Many students thrive in the hands-on environment environ-ment and are not given that opportunity op-portunity enough." Science fair experiments teach students writing, research re-search and comprehending scientific literature skills, as well how to manage time and schedules. David stated, "Unlike most school assignments that are due the next day or the next week, science fair projects take more time and prior planning plan-ning by the students in order to accomplish. Most projects involve a good deal of math and the display board requires them to think artistically. In addition to all of this, students also develop communication skills as they learn to present their findings orally to their peers and to the public. Those students who do science fair projects truly do come out way ahead of their peers academically. academi-cally. "The most important thing of all, is that most students really re-ally take the chance to look outside of themselves and try to understand how they can apply what they are learning to improve their own lives or the world around them. They start seeing that they can have a positive experience for good in the world and start looking for possible solutions to real world problems. Because of the encouragement of -the Al- pine School District Science Fair, many of our local school students have already moved on to make significant contributions contri-butions in science, research and the advancement of technology," tech-nology," David concluded. |