FHN to Host 2019 Regional Science Fair on March 2
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Published: March 1, 2019
The Regional Science fair competition is being held at FHN on March 2. This is a Science fair for students ranging from kindergarten to high school. FHN Science teacher Donna Malkmus is in charge of the Regional Science fair and is expecting a large turnout.
“I really love this event,” Malkmus said. “We have 318 projects set to flow into FHN this weekend, and I am just so ecstatic to see what all these bright students have prepared for us .”
The event begins at 8 a.m. with breakfast for volunteer judges. Judging will begin promptly at 9 a.m. The majority of the day is spent by judges taking a close look at the projects being presented.
“We instruct the judges to take their time to walk through the projects,” Malkmus said. “They have a scoring guide as they walk around, so we ask that they look carefully at every aspect of that guide.”
Awards begin after the judges make a decision in each age group. This awards ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. This will end the Science fair season for Malkmus after also running the Honors Science fair in late February. Both events leave competitors the opportunity to compete at the International Science Fair sponsored by Intel in Phoenix, AZ.
“I cannot wait to see all these amazing projects,” Malkmus said. “My favorite part is always the awards ceremony, because I get to see who moves on, but I also get to see the happiness it causes students once they see their hard work had won them an award.”
Jeanne Steele • Mar 6, 2019 at 6:55 pm
Ms Malkmus,
I would like to speak to someone about one of the comment put on the scoring guide of a second grader’s project. I am not judging the comment, the little girl would like to find out what was wrong so next time it can be corrected. In our eyes, the way the comment was stated, she had what the judge was looking for. So, maybe we are not reading it correctly or we do not see what the judge was looking for.
The comment stated:
Next time you need to do 3 trials on each of the crayons
There were 3 trials on each crayon, 9 in all. One of the crayons did not have anything graphed because it did not reach the length that was given as the goal line to be timed. Although that crayon name was on all graphs. And was explained in the writing why there was nothing showing on the graph for that crayon.
The second grader is not looking to be given a new score, but she was wondering why that was written on the sheet. I’m sure the judge would have to agree that the project would not have made it to this Fair if there were not 3 trials on each crayon. So I have to think it must be something else.
Thank you,
Jeanne Steele
Madison Abanathie • Mar 11, 2019 at 9:25 am
Thank you for your comment. You may contact teachers directly at the FHN Staff Directory linked below.
https://fhn.fhsdschools.org/contact_us/staff_directory