Reed Intermediate School students in Todd Stentiford and Maura Drabik’s sixth grade cluster displayed recently completed projects for a Science Fair on Wednesday, June 3.

According to Mr Stentiford and Ms Drabik, this was the third year students in their cluster have participated in a Science Fair.

Mr Stentiford estimated there were 25 displayed projects, which shared a variety of concepts and studies. The projects, Mr Stentiford said, are based on the sixth grade curriculum.

“They did a beautiful job,” said Mr Stentiford. “These are really diverse ideas this year.”

Other classes visited the cluster throughout the presentation to learn about the projects, see demonstrations, and, in some cases, try samples.

Students Paige Psichopaidas and Allie Luby were busy shaking up their project and promising samples of ice cream when one class came through. Allie and Paige created a, “How do you make ice cream with no fridge?” project, and solved their quandary by filling a jar halfway with ice and some salt then adding a sealed bag of ice cream ingredients into the jar.

Students Michael Elston and Luke Sordi studied “Aerodynamics” for their project, and created a cardboard compartment “Wind Tunnel” to do so.

Students Ashley Reed and Annie Fowler studied super foods for their project, which resulted in a “Super Food Smoothie.”

“We thought the average American diet is too unhealthy,” said Annie, speaking about why they wanted to study the topic.

According to Mr Stentiford all of the students came up with their own ideas for the projects. Some students worked in groups or pairs while other students worked individually.

Mr Stentiford said all of the students came up with their own hypothesis, conducted procedures, collected data, and generated a claim based on the data for the projects.