Participants and winners from Haddonfield Friends School were recently recognized at an award ceremony for the 41st Coriell Science Fair on March 19. The science fair is prestigious and competitive, bringing participants from schools across Camden, Burlington and Gloucester Counties. As it is part of the school science curriculum, all students in the 7th and 8th grades are required to participate in the Coriell Science fair.
The event featured 22 participants from 7th and 8th grade. Of those 22, the school received 10 awards and 2 special awards for the 6th to 8th grade categories.
Winners included the following:
- Jaya Lawrence Gupta placed second in Behavioral and Social Sciences for her project, Memory and Persuasion
- Dante Andreacchio placed first in Botany for his project, Light It Grow!
- Grace Delfino placed second in Botany for her project, “Best Soils to Grow Oregano”
- Constantine Kalfatides placed first in Engineering for his project, “The Best Performing Keyboard Switch”
- Henry Mills placed second in Environmental Science for his project, “Unfiltered Water Lead Content”
- Jayden Limjoco placed first in Consumer Science for his project, “How Restaurant Menus Order For You”
- Kate Perlman placed second in Consumer Science for her project, “Would You Like a Brownie?” She also won the Marianne Raphaely Medicine and Health Award.
- Matthew Ardito placed first in Medicine and Health for his project, “What Scents Affect Your Heart Rate Most?”
- Erika Capella placed second in Medicine and Health for her project, “Background Noise: Is it Good or Bad?”. She also won the Best of Life Sciences Award.
- Julian Obre-Marks placed second in Microbiology for his project “Wash Your Hands Please!”
Students choose topics based on their interest, availability of resources and the ability to conduct it within the time frame. The processes include coming up with a research question and title for their project, hypothesis, materials needed, procedures, conducting their study/experiment, making observations and collecting data, writing their conclusions/findings and finally the abstract writing.
Learn more about the Coriell Science Fair at https://www.coriell.org/1/About-Us/Education/Coriell-Institute-Science-Fair.
