Valemount Elementary held its annual science fair on February 27th. View some of the participants and their projects below!
Hop aside Energizer bunny – Jaxsyn, Taras and Thoren proved you can generate several volts of electricity with potatoes, copper and citric acid. /Abigail Popple
Grade 3 student Locklan shows off the stretchiness of the slime she made with her classmate Rowan. Toy slime dates back nearly 50 years to 1976, the pair’s research found. /Abigail Popple
Slime has many useful purposes, such as cleaning household surfaces, being a fun toy… or mimicking farting sounds, Grade 3 students Rowan and Locklan demonstrated. Don’t add potions to your slime or it may come alive, they caution. /Abigail Popple
Would it really be a science fair without the quintessential baking soda volcano? Ainsley tips a container of red-dyed vinegar into the volcano’s mouth and stands back to watch it erupt. /Abigail Popple
Rock candy-like crystals can be made from ingredients as simple as sugar and salt, and they can be grown on surfaces ranging from sponges to popsicle sticks, Jade and Amelia’s experiment found. /Abigail Popple
Grade 4 students Peyton and Logan recreated a firenado – a phenomenon that rarely occurs in the natural world where fire is stoked into a whirlwind – using a tea candle and a glass tube. /Abigail Popple
Grade 4 students Preyasi and Mirai showed off their bubbly personalities with an experiment on which surfaces bubbles can bounce on without popping. Turns out that a winter glove is all you need to keep from bursting your bubble. /Abigail Popple
Grade 3 student Emma spent two weeks on her project, a robot arm whose fingers can be manipulated by pressing down on syringes connected to tubes. She said prosthetic limbs can help people with disabilities. /Abigail Popple
Seth and Parker may have cracked up their audience, but their bouncy eggs became resistant to cracking after a layer of shell was removed by different kinds of vinegar. They found that a combination of rice vinegar and white vinegar works best to effectively bounce-ify eggs. /Abigail Popple
Valemount Secondary School students lent their time to help judge the science fair. From left to right: Gwenelen Hanson, Rachael Markham, Tanushri Bholah, and Sam Darragh. /Abigail Popple
