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Science Fairs are all about getting kids excited about learning. Paisley Bills, Bree Riding, Rebekah Jensen, Bree Hendry, Stockton Haskell, Eli Adamson, and Kyler Holman demonstrated their excitement and knowledge at the Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair (CUSEF) hosted at BYU and were award winners.
Paisley Bills exhibit was titled Groundwater. Her science question was What affect does the thickness of the sand, gravel, or rock layer in an aquifer system have on the length of time it takes for water to travel through it? She used 4 jars to simulate different aquifers with different thickness layers of material. She learned that sand is the most porous material used in this experiment then rock, and least porous was gravel.
Bree Riding and Rebekah Jensen put their heads together. Their exhibit was titled Whose Nose Knows? Their research question was something they had heard their parents argue about. Their mothers would claim that they could smell something that was stinky and their dads would always say they couldn't smell a thing. According to their research, they found that girls have a keener sense of smell than boys.
Bree Hendry questioned which kind of animals, big or small, had the strongest hair. Her exhibit was called Hairy and the Science Fair. In her experiment she wanted to test her hypothesis that the larger the animal the stronger their hair would be. She collected hair samples from Hogle Zoo of a camel, fox, elk, deer, moose and bison. She found the moose has the strongest hair and the bison has the weakest. She believes this is because the Bison lives on the plains and needs warmth while the Moose lives in the woods and needs more protection from trees and rocks.
Stockton Haskell experiment was based on product testing. While growing up, his favorite toy has always been Legos. Stockton's frustration of having a brother break everything he built led him to wondering which type of glue is best to hold his Lego creations together. His experiment was called Lego Lockdown. He used Elmer's Glue, hot glue, and super glue to cement his creations and then tried to destroy what he built. He found the best cement to keep his Lego creations together is super glue.
Kyler Holman and Eli Adamson's love playing Angry Birds and their experiment was intended to help them become better. Together, they came up with an experiment called Ping Pong Catapult. They wanted to test a ping pong ball on a catapult and find out at what degree the ball would launch the furthest. They built a catapult, attached a protractor to measure angles and launched. The found the optimum degree to shoot the ball was between 87 and 100 degrees.
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