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Show I I. oivji-.ijuT lhurda. March 26, 1 S 1 Page A9 ience Mr held sciioo at high 7T '3 I , , . M ' ' ' - i : 'f-rmm - . """"" '" I i fv to1 . . . i -. i Y - ' j " i 1 1 1 1 - ; X '7 s s I ; f f I 4 "...and this little pig went to Pork City High School..'.' Meggan Hunter shows off one of the :. prize subjects of her science project. Qiiesi ion: What do you do with a Red Ear Slider Turtle who wont pull his own weight? Answer: It he gets to be too much of a slider, you bring out your best recipe for turtle soup. Question: How's that again? Answer: Well, you really had to be there. It was all there in the multipurpose room at Park City High School: everything from turtles to pigs to perpetual per-petual motion machines. The event was the annual science fair, and it was a showcase for some of the school's most creative minds. Remember the controversy controver-sy last year when some parents in the Wasatch School District objected to their children playing the games Dungeons and Dragons in class? Had that happened a year later, they could have consulted Park City ninth grader Ed Callan. His science project was a study of the effect that Dungeons and Dragons has on its players, based upon a review of the literature and his own experience playing the game. Callan's project, incidentally, won first prize in the fair's Biological Science category. Remember the rumors about Park City's mine tailings being a source of radioactivity in the local supply of drinking water? Another ninth grader, Mike Sparks, decided to check that one out. Armed with a Geiger Counter, Sparks studied soil samples from a number of old tailings sites including Prospector Square and the Sprio Tunnel. His conclusion: we've got nothing to worry about. About 90 area students combined their talents to produce 64 different projects in this year's science fair. H - ' ' .-- jr Jtt . ,. - ' Ninth grader Ed Callin explains the conclusions of his study on Dungeons and Dragons to one of the judges. Some of the projects appeared ap-peared to relied the concerns con-cerns ol the society a.s a whole ' more than a dozen focused on energy conservation and production), while others could only be described as the products of wild imaginations. Take the turtle project, for example. For some unexplained unex-plained reason, Kim Robinson Robin-son and Belinda Brown decided they had to know whether a Red Ear Slider Turtle could pull its own weight. First they attached each turtle to a harness loaded down with one-gram fishing weights. If the turtle handled the load easily, another weight was added. Robinson and Brown discovered that three ol their four subjects were both able and willing to tow the line. But subject number lour decided the whole experiment ex-periment wasn't worth the weight, and refused to budge. It was for the benefit of this uncooperative creature that the turtle soup recipe was produced ijust kidding, of course). A nearby exhibit had another edible end product: pork. Meggan Hunter and Heather Movie chose a litter of piglets in their study of weight, growth and development. Their project became a big hit among th' students when one ol the lit tie porkers, freshly scrubbed, scrub-bed, was brought in lor everyone to admire. Greg Halfhill also managed to attract his share of attention with his project, "Home Alcohol Production." Produc-tion." Halfhill was ready to explain, to anyone who would listen, how alcohol could be made from any starchy substance from potatoes to chocolate chip cookies. He even had a huge still, made largely of old col-lee col-lee cans, set up in one corner ol the room. Halfhill s efforts were good enough to win fourth place in the Physical Science category for loth, lllh and 12th graders. Second place in the same category went to Susan Mahoney and Wendy Hagmann for a project en titled "Edible Energy.'' It could not be determined whether the two projects were related. House plants were subjected subjec-ted to considerable abuse in some of the projects They were led everything Irom vodka to ear drops in the name of science, although the relationship between plants and humans never was clearly established. Plants, by the way. apparently apparen-tly do not respond well to pain pills Some nl the young scientists scien-tists seemed to draw dil-lerent dil-lerent conclusions on the same subjects. Shawn Haelrigg, lor example, discovered in Ins review of the literature that there were a number ol obstacles hindering the construction ol a perpetual motion machine. But Trent l.eavitt and Kevin Burns decided they were going to build one anyway. They designed an electric car. powered by rechargeable recharge-able batteries, with a tiny generator attached to the wheels to replenish the chai'ue Their design won lust place in the Physical Science category lor the upper up-per grades, second place overall. The top to award winners were given pocket calculators, courtesy ol Hal Taylor and Associates. The top Hi projects, along with any others recommended by the science teachers, are eligible to compete in the Metropolitan Science Fair to be held at the I'niversitv of Utah April 2 Listed below are the Hi top projects and students responsible for their creation: I Tr inlli (.r.iile Biological Science I (ungeons and Dragons- ellect Ed Callan Smoking and lungs Leigh Ann Florence oise Pollution Traci EvansJill Schettler Lite in the Fast Lane Belinda BrownKim Robinson Ninlli di ade Physical Science Dil Michael Lindskov Sol.ii- Energv Ricky WilliamsPal Carovaglia Radiation Around Park City Mike Sparks Sun Shelter Janice KimballSusan Boyle HIII1-I21I1 (.1 ,nle Biological Science Colored Rays Anita Miles, Li Thaller Household ( 'henncals David Hunt Ivy Plants Lvnnette Boeck iiisins Robin Friedman MMI1-I21I1 (irade Physical Science Electric Ears Kevin BurnsTrent Leavitt Edible Energy Wendy HagmannSusan Mahoney Home Alcohol Production Greg Halfhill Arts festival begins at Parley's Park -1 t' at v - -1 ;i,4 1 -t- t f 1 v , , 7 -1 ( .''An j. It doesn't attract quite as much attention as its summer sum-mer counterpart, but to those involved, it's just as big a hit. With the move to the new school, the Marsae Arts Festival has now become the Parley's Park Arts Festival. Otherwise, the ingredients are much the same as in previous years. Starting this Thursday and running for five consecutive weeks, more than 40 volunteer volun-teer art teachers from the Park City area will be at the Parley's Park Elementary School offering one-hour courses in a variety of subjects sub-jects from decoupage to puppetry to batik to woodworking. wood-working. Students will sign up for the classes of their i-hoiiV. .V it ll -.Vol k to lie-in III e.i, nei H il ' According to Principal Robert Freeman, the arts festival is being coordinated by Sharon Reid and Linda Singer. He said the program began at Marsac, belore his arrival in Park City. "I wish I could take credit for it, because its a tremendous program." Parley's Park School also will host mime Jerry Gardiner Gar-diner in April as part of the artist-in-schools program. Gardiner will be giving classes a4 the school during the weeks of April t:i to April 20. Funds for the program are being provided by the Park City School District andtheP.T.A. Left: Students gather 'round to sign-up lor classes to make various objects d'art such as the pinata on the right. Photos bv Phyllis Kubciistein - ;l H SHI SBL to remember begin fflpril 3f cA Mill PROSPECTOR ATHLETIC CLUB 649-6670 1st Annual Prospector Athletic Club San Juan River Trip Adventure!!! April 13 to 17 Done by O.A.R.S. (Outdoor Aoventure River Specialists) Cost: $355.00 per person $50.00 Discount For Club Member Expires 71581 Exciting FREE River Slide Show and refreshments presented by Deb Petersen March 1 8 & 23 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lounge at the Prospector Athletic Club. 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