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Show American Fork Citizen - Thursday, March 10, 2(X)5 - Page 9 Forbes students place in school science fair f- Jrrl , !- r i V '"I ' 1 Ju 1 Science fair winners at Forbes Elementary School in the upper and lower divisions are: front row: Cassady Christensen, 1st place; Shailor Smith, 2nd place; Morgan Mor-gan Hardy, 3rd place, second row: Anna Gunther, 1st; Kiana Wong, 2nd; and Sheibi Nicol, 3rd, third row: teachers Patty Barney and David Maughn IPl"'lPM IHH, if 1 IKS"! .... f -. . - -x .j- fcM. ,f.-f. Ifijjyj S-o, jLyfclfcft 'Jfaa. Front row L-R: Patrick Kesler, Nathan Hatton, Cal Ras-mussen, Ras-mussen, Matt Boulter, Alex Barlow. Back row: Lizzie Uibel, Alice Seiter, Shan'tel Nelson, Brooke Jessee, Whitney Major, Brooke Dudley Advancing to District competition are Forbes Elementary Ele-mentary School science fair winners, first row, left to right: Philip Craig, Taylor Frost, Jake Healey, Austin Burch; second row: Breanne Barnes, Brooke Bond, Heather Kitchen, Sara Kitchen; back row: Cassady Christensen (1st place), Shailor Smith (2nd place) and Morgan Hardy (3rd place). Students place in region Reflections p p l ill American Fork Region 9 Reflection representatives and Honorable Mentions 2004-2005. Tdt I -:-' fe....,- Cl I AF High School Reflections winners The PTSA at American Fork High School recently held a luncheon in honor of the PTSA sponsored "Reflections" contest winners. win-ners. Thirty-six entries were submitted in the various vari-ous categories of which 18 moved on to the district level. The theme for the contest con-test was "A Different Kind of Hero..." According to PTSA representative repre-sentative Susan Wagstaff, the entries received were amazing. She added, "The judges commented to me that we had some incredibly talented kids and that the entries from our school were exceptional." Karissa Neely He made it sound easy to come up with a great story, and at the end of his presentation pres-entation most of the students stu-dents agreed, at the Shelley Elementary Media Center in American Fork. Rick Walton, author of more than 50 picture books, including the award winning, "Bertie was a Watchdog," told students last month that writing was not some mystical process. "People think there's these magic story fairies floating around who give you story ideas. There's nothing magic about it," he said. Walton gave numerous presentations to Shelley students that day, encouraging encour-aging them in their writing. During each presentation, he taught students one of the processes he uses to come up with his stories. "I force myself to come up with stories. I use a seed of an idea, and then ask questions ques-tions about it," Walton said. The process he presented was one he used to come up with his recent picture book, "Mrs. Murphy's Pumpkin." Walton started the students stu-dents off by asking them to simply come up with a letter let-ter from the alphabet. Then he asked for nouns that began with the letter. In one example, the students chose the letter Q and came up with Queen Quackers as the noun. Then he asked where Queen Quackers lived, and for ideas on a problem she was facing. Hands shot into the air, and as the ideas flew from the Winners in the multimedia multi-media category were Alex Barlow, Cal Rasmussen, Mike Carter, Matthew Boulter Boul-ter and Brooke Dudley. The visual arts category winner was Brooke Dudley. The photography category winners win-ners were Whitney Major, Brooke Dudley, Kiera Welch and Benjamin Bartholomew. Literature eager mouths of students, a story began to form, with events and rising plot action, and a final resolution resolu-tion of her struggle. In a half hour's worth of time, there was a new story brought to life. Walton, a resident of Provo, enjoys helping others with their writing skills. "I like coming and talking to the kids, and teaching them about writing," he said. The author of a wide range of picture books, from the ABC Cassady Christensen, sixth grade student at Forbes Elementary School, wanted to know if candy helps cause cavities in your teeth, so she decided decid-ed to find out herself by trying it out on her own sweet tooth. I mean somebody some-body had to actually eat the candy to find out. Right! Her conclusions, entitled enti-tled "Cavities Bite," showed that of Skittles, Dots, Hershey candy bars, M&M's and Starbursts, Dots stuck to your teeth more and could cause more cavities. Her project won her first place at the Forbes category winners were Nathan Hatton, Brooke Jesse, Lisa Larsen, Mikaelle Giffin and Lizzie Uibel. The music category winners were Alice Seiter, Patrick Kesler, Aaron Moody, Shan'tel Shan'-tel Nelson and Kristofer Michaels. Moving on to state are Brooke Dudley, Patrick Kesler, Whitney Major and Mikaelle Giffin. book, "So Many Bunnies," to "Noah's Square Dance," also tends to emphasize language lan-guage arts skills in his books. Walton said he always played around with writing but had many different careers before settling into authorship. As a full-time author, his goal each day is to complete at least one significant piece of writing, be it a draft of a story, a chapter, or a fleshed out idea. Elementary School science fair, which just concluded. She will now advance to district competition. Other district winners are Shailor Smith, Phillip Craig, Taylor Frost, Jake Healey, Austin Burch, Bre-anna Bre-anna Barnes, Brooke Bond, Heather Kitchen and Sara Kitchen. Other school winners were: lower grade - Anna Gunther, 1st place; Kiana Wong, 2nd place; and Sheibi Nicol, 3rd. Upper grade - Cassady Christensen, Chris-tensen, 1st; Shailor Smith, 2nd; and Morgan Hardy, 3rd. Teachers are Patty Barney Bar-ney and David Maughn. American Fork students were honored at the Region 9 reflections awards celebration on February Feb-ruary 3 held at Oak Canyon Junior High in Lindon. The theme for the 2004 reflections contest was "A Different Kind of Hero." Over 4,000 entries were submitted throughout the Alpine School District consisting con-sisting of 63 schools. Thirteen representatives representa-tives were chosen from American Fork schools and will be moving on to the state competition. Six student stu-dent entries also received honorable mentions. "What a great honor," Region 9 Associate Director, Direc-tor, Lori Ehat said. "We have quite a large district and for you to represent your school is a great honor. I want you young people to know how impressed I am at what you do." Areas of categorical participation par-ticipation included visual arts, literature, photography, photogra-phy, music, dance, theater, three-dimensional art and multimedia. Students from kindergarten to twelfth' grade were allowed to participate. par-ticipate. "This year's entries spoke of hope for the future and the good that one sees in the world around," Region 9 Reflections Reflec-tions Chair Juliet Guilott said. "Although moms, dads, teacher and firefighters firefight-ers were themes for many of the entries, grandpas won out as being the favorite topic of the competition." compe-tition." Jordan Wilkinson from Mountain Ridge Junior High was selected as a representative rep-resentative in the music category. "I submitted a piano piece entitled "If it wasn't for your choice," Wilkinson said. "This piece describes what it might have been like for my birth mom to give me up when I was only 2 weeks old." Students receiving the awards were previously representatives at the individual school and council levels. One hundred hun-dred and fourteen entries were submitted to the regional level. Those who were selected as representatives represen-tatives will have their entries turned over to the state for competition. They will be notified in March and have an awards celebration cele-bration April 8. Sixty two entries state-wide will also be showcased at the state PTA convention held at Brigham Young University in May. "Blind judging took place for the regional competition," com-petition," Guilott said. "Thirty two judges based their decisions on each entries creativity, artistic merit and interpretation of theme." Cheyenne Christensen from Timber! ine Middle submitted photography entitled "Smiles." 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