Holden’s project || Monica Sager Jailys and Nathan with their project || Monica Sager Noah with his project || Monica Sager Showing Principal Emily Zotto about drying paints || Monica Sager Visualizing sound || Monica Sager Measuring UV degradation across competing brands of sunscreen || Monica Sager Attacking ALS with Riluzole || Monica Sager The Role of Exercise in Treating Parkinson’s || Monica Sager Moisture in jello || Monica Sager Looking at rubbing alcohol, calcium chloride, salt and sugar on ice breakers || Monica Sager Samahir with her project || Monica Sager Leo with his project || Monica Sager Treating Alzheimers by Removing Beta-Amyloid Plaquets || Monica Sager Julie and Alyona’s project || Monica Sager Dylan’s project on optimizing a robot’s ability to capture balls || Monica Sager
The Swampscott High School hosted a science fair expo, highlighting a variety of projects from UV degradation across sunscreen brands to visualizing sound and treating Parkinson’s with exercise.
“It’s learning at a different level, a deeper level of thinking, they’re applying what they’re learning throughout the year into something specific,” said science teacher Nicole Greenway
The fair has been put on for about a decade, Chemistry teacher Boriana Georgieva said. Only honors students are required to participate, but Georgieva said students from other classes were welcomed and encouraged to participate.
Georgieva said through the fair, students in chemistry are able to take those skills into physics the next year and other courses going forward.
“We wanted to make sure that kids would develop scientific skills,” Georgieva said. “They have to know how to write the paper, do the research, and present information. We made the fair as a celebration of what they learned.”
