6A • GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS
WEDNESDAY, March 7, 2012
SCIENCE
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Sylina Blaney and Kasey Rollman are pictured with their Science Fair project “Boys and Girls Around Town.”
Abby Raikes is pictured with her Science Fair project 1213 Casey Hall and Ben Pickard are pictured with their “Hand Sanitizer and Plant Life.” Science Fair project “A Battery That Runs on Mud.”
“Fish Fry” was the title of Hayley Allen’s and Delaney Giantonio’s science fair project. They weren’t looking for ways to cook up Friday’s meal during Lent, however. The girls investigated global warming on a small scale. Two gold fish were kept in bowls and the water of one was kept at room temperature. The other was kept at a temperature near 80 degrees. The girls hypothesized that the warm water would have a negative effect on the fish. “Our hypothesis was correct. The room temperature fish lived longer,” said Giantonio.
have on acid rain. They compared “Sevin” and “Orthomax” by spraying them on plans and checking the run off. Both were acidic, but “Sevin” was more. “We didn’t have too many products to choose from,” Saner explained. An Aloe Vera plant was the subject for Carmen Peligrino and Brendan Haines. These boys clipped off an aloe plant at different lengths to see which one grew faster over a two-month time period. Peligrino said they thought the big one would grow faster. “We were surprised to
Emily Allen and Jessica Becker investigated something called the “Stroop Effect.” They wanted to see if kids could name the colors of the words but not the words. Becker explained that the word “GREEN” is printed in a red color so the correct answer is “RED.” Allen and Becker were surprised to find that older kids were faster at reading. “We tried to find young kids who knew their colors but couldn’t read. We thought they would do better,” they said. Lilly Battita and Morgan Saner wanted to know what effect insecticides
Nick LaGrange and Krista Beddor are pictured with their Science Fair project “ODOR.”
find out it didn’t really matter because the small on caught up,” Haines said. Deanna Comp’s grandfather is a dairy farmer, so she and Jessica Stranman decided to use that as part of their project: What month do cows produce the most milk? Comp explained that everybody thinks cows produce more when it’s warm, but it’s actually better at a temperature of 35 degrees. Over the course of the year, the girls kept track of how much milk the cows produced. “February was too cold and August was too hot. December turned out to be
the best for milking this year,” Stranman said. Nick LaGrange and Krista Beddor wanted to find out if odors could be removed from shoes. Beddor said, “No one likes a smelly shoe!” However, their method didn’t seem to work very well. They put a squeaky toy filled with odor removing products in LaGrange’s shoe. For a week he “stunk it up,” they explained. The noise from the toy mostly got on LaGrange’s (and everyone else’s) nerves. Sylina Blaney and Kasey Rollman investigated “Boys and Girls Around Town.” To find out what gender appeared the most at various stores in Jefferson, the girls went out once a week for two months and watched people. “We went to different stores in Jefferson and kept track of how many men and women entered,” they said Blaney explained. “The number was about the same, but we did notice that Rite Aide is a very
busy store,” Rollman said. A white smile was the topic of Bailey Beckwith’s a nd Ka itlin Guerini’s project. The girls soaked tiles in various stain producing liquids, like coffee and then brushed them for several days with whitening toothpaste. “Colgate Total was the best,” they said. “We were surprised.” Students were judged on the experimental design process, data collection and conclusions, and presentation/interview. L e s i L a m b e r t , Zoe Contenza, and Steven Houser with Caitlyn Stimson will be competing against students from all over Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana Counties at the YSU Lake-to-River Science Day on March 31. Those rated “superior” at YSU will advance to the State Science Fair in May at Ohio State University. Lake-to-River Science Day is one of 16 regional science fairs in Ohio that are sanctioned by the Ohio Academy of Science.
Kaitlin Guerini and Bailey Beckwith are pictured with their Science Fair project “Which Toothpaste Whitens the Best?”
Hayley Allen and Delaney Giantonio are pictured with their Science Fair project “Fish Fry.”
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Jessica Bicker and Emily Allen are pictured with their Science Fair project “Stroop Effect.”
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Lilly Battita and Morgan Saner are pictured with their Science Fair project “Insecticide Effect on Acid Rain.”
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Deanna Comp and Jessica Stanman are pictured with their Science Fair project “What Temperatures Work Best Down on the Farm?”