This past Saturday, we had our school’s annual Academic Fair. The kids (and parents) have been working for weeks to get their projects and displays ready. Elise and all the fourth graders were assigned science projects. Elise and her partner Kay won the first place blue ribbon for her classroom for their comparison between cookies made with butter versus margarine. (Butter won in both categories: taste and texture.)When Elise and her partner were each awarded a blue ribbon it was a beautiful moment marred only by the spectacle of Julie rushing the stage and trying to wrestle one of the blue ribbons away from the girls shouting that this stinking blue ribbon belonged to her, dog-gone-it. She earned it! She shouted something incoherent about having invested more time in this stickin’ project than both of those girls combined. The whole tussle lasted less than a minute and security quickly had the situation under control.
The sixth-graders in my middle school were also assigned science projects. My eighth-graders including Annika all did math projects and displays. Annika and her partner Flo took sixth place overall for the eighth grade.
One of the highlights of the half-day Academic Fair was the seventh grade class who not only had to do history projects, but had to dress up as their famous person from history. Can you identify these individuals? Answers are below. A perfect scores earns you free lodging in Hong Kong for a week.
-Jack
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