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Students
Fair Well in Elementary District, Regional Science
Events
February 28, 2005
Thousands of students participated recently in Plano ISD's Elementary
District Science Fair and in the North Dallas Elementary
Regional Science Fair. Hundreds of individual and school-level trophies
were
awarded at the fairs, including school high point and
participation honors. At the regional fair, Plano ISD students were
well represented,
capturing 16 first place awards.
Plano ISD District Elementary Fair
The 2005 Elementary District Science Fair was held Saturday, February
12, at Renner Middle School. This year 5,510
elementary and sixth grade science students participated
in Building Science Fairs, and 266 projects representing
301 students competed at the District Fair.
Ginger Britain, elementary science coordinator, reported that prizes
given at the District Fair included trophies for
all place winners at each grade level in the categories
of Life, Earth, and Physical science. Neck medallions
were given for honorable mention places.
District
Science Fair Winners (95k) 48-pages
Grand Prize trophies were awarded to lower elementary (grades 1-3),
upper elementary (grades 4-5) and for grade 6. A school
high-point trophy was given to Mitchell Elementary
School and Frankford Middle
School for earning the highest number of points for
student winners from their buildings at the District
Fair. A second school high-point
trophy was given to the Hickey Elementary School
and Frankford Middle School for the highest percentage
of building entries in a Building
Science Fair.
Schools with the highest number of
entries included:
- Hickey Elementary - 58.98%
- Mendenhall Elementary - 55.81%
- Brinker Elementary - 44.82%
- Frankford Middle School - 23.44%
- Murphy Middle School - 13.08%
- Wilson Middle School - 10.88%
Frankford Middle School students
(l-r) Henry Popp, Teddy Garber, Tanner Scott, Andrew
Rubinett, Devon Mc Lachlan and Justin
Fu are pictured with the school's many trophies, including
a Grand Prize in Life Science earned
by Teddy, Andrew and Justin; school high point for
largest
percentage of students participating at the six grade
level; and high point for the highest
cumulative points
earned at the sixth
grade level.
North Dallas Regional
Elementary Fair
The fifteenth annual North Dallas Elementary Regional Science Fair
was held February 15 and 16 at Plano Centre. Each school’s grand
prize winners entered their projects in the fair. Students from Allen
ISD, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, Garland ISD, Mesquite
ISD, Plano ISD and Richardson ISD elementary and sixth
grade science students competed
for trophies and medallions.
Regional
Science Fair Winners (10k)
“Our school district was well represented with 67 students
(60 projects) receiving awards,” noted Ginger Britain, elementary
science coordinator. “In grades one through six, our students
won 16 first place trophies, 16 second place trophies, 11 third place
trophies and 17 honorable mention medallions.
Related Link
Integrated
Curriculum (science, social studies, health)
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Mendenhall Elementary School students
who were awarded prizes at the North Dallas Regional
Elementary Science Fair included (l-r) Kendera Watson
and Lauren Tiesman, 5th Grade
Honorable Mention.
Jackson Elementary School winners
at the regional science fair included (above)
Austin Quan who won 1st Place in the Earth Science
category with his experiment "What is in our H2O?" and (below)
Madeline McMillan who received 3rd place in the Physical
Science category with her experiment "Help!
My Art Project won't stick. Which adhesive is stronger?"
Weatherford Elementary School second
grade student Omar Alvarenga won second place at
the district fair. He is pictured with teacher Joanna
Chandler.
Pictured on the PISD Web site home
page are Huffman Elementary School district fair winners (-r)
Ainsley Campbell, Luke Black, Micah Gilbert and Kameron Jones.
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