Scientists go forth to state comp
Sophomore Madison Felux shows off her science fair project to a judge. Students have worked hard on the their projects, some starting in the summer.
The state science fair competition was from Friday, March 23 to Sunday March 25 in San Antonio at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
“At the state science fair competition I observed projects that I was marveled by, and was truly humbled,” freshman Sabastian Badart said.
Students competed in the regional science fair on Thursday, Feb. 20 before they could move on to the state science fair.
“There were around 60 participants. Seven students placed well enough to move on to the state science fair in March,” chemistry teacher Hope Lozano said. “No students placed high enough to go to the international science fair, but students can still make it to international from state science fair, although usually students go from regional to international, skipping state.”
According to students, completing a science fair project took a lot of time and energy.
“The strenuous processes followed in my experiment took hours to complete and it took days to compile my data,” Badart said.
Freshman Amy Cox competed in the state science fair with a project about the effects of sports and gender on reflexes.
“I tested boys and girls, all age fourteen, some who played sports and some who didn’t. I found that girls overall had better reflexes than boys of the same age,” Cox said.
Cox said she started out with a more general experiment, until she noticed differences in the data, until she noticed differences in the data, and then chose to make the project more specific.
Although Cox worked hard on her project, she didn’t think she would make it as far in the competition as she did.
“When I walked in to the Palmer Events center for regional [science fair] and saw three huge columns of projects, I a little intimidated, but I ended up getting first in my category, and moving on to best of fair judging,” Cox said. “I didn’t think my project was going to get anywhere near that.”
Cox attributes her success with her project to her personal interest with the topic.
“I definitely showed a more personal side with my project,” Cox said. “I tried to show how I created the project myself.”
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