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Students get high marks for hovercraft project
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By Christina Knott
cknott@newstribune.com
Jacob Ruble and Grover Johnson's hovercraft was an easy favorite for many at the 25th annual Lincoln University Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
The Russellville Middle School eighth graders won a first-place ribbon for their experiment, “The Effects of Different Surface Area On How Far a Hovercraft Will Go In a Single Push.”
Ruble and Johnson were two of 54 students from their school to compete Friday. A total of eleven schools, including Jefferson City High School, the Tuscumbia high and middle schools, the School of the Osage high and middle schools and High Point Elementary, also were represented.
Eighth-grade students Becky Maier and Jade Daniels studied the effects of musical genres on blood pressure. They found classical music to decrease it the most.
Maier and Daniels got their idea for their project after researching online. Maier said she likes science because she gets to discover new things.
“I like to learn,” Daniels also said. “It's fun to learn and just know stuff.”
Many students got ideas for their project from the Internet, but some brainstormed from their own lives.
Kristen Clink, eighth-grade who lives on a farm, chose to study the effect of multiple births on weight because she had easy access to sheep.
Eighth graders Kent Shikles and Kyle Peck were curious about performance enhancers after hearing that baseball players used them.
They studied the effects of normal food, generic performance enhancers and androstendione on three different mice. In one week, the mouse on androstendione gained .2 ounce, while the other two only gained .02.
“It wasn't that much, but for us it would be like gaining 5 pounds a week,” Shikles said.
Their teachers, Tom Backes and Marilyn Maier, said students at their school are all required to submit and entry to the school science fair. First-place winners from there go on to compete at the regional competition.
“It gives kids the opportunity to pick something that really interests them,” Backes said. “Within science, they get to pick their own unique science field.”
Entries were divided into microbiology, physics, environmental science, earth and space science, botany and behavioral science.
With a range of entries, Backes said he is always impressed by something the students have done.
“I think this year is probably the best year for the projects,” he said.
The Russellville Middle School eighth graders won a first-place ribbon for their experiment, “The Effects of Different Surface Area On How Far a Hovercraft Will Go In a Single Push.”
Ruble and Johnson were two of 54 students from their school to compete Friday. A total of eleven schools, including Jefferson City High School, the Tuscumbia high and middle schools, the School of the Osage high and middle schools and High Point Elementary, also were represented.
Eighth-grade students Becky Maier and Jade Daniels studied the effects of musical genres on blood pressure. They found classical music to decrease it the most.
Maier and Daniels got their idea for their project after researching online. Maier said she likes science because she gets to discover new things.
“I like to learn,” Daniels also said. “It's fun to learn and just know stuff.”
Many students got ideas for their project from the Internet, but some brainstormed from their own lives.
Kristen Clink, eighth-grade who lives on a farm, chose to study the effect of multiple births on weight because she had easy access to sheep.
Eighth graders Kent Shikles and Kyle Peck were curious about performance enhancers after hearing that baseball players used them.
They studied the effects of normal food, generic performance enhancers and androstendione on three different mice. In one week, the mouse on androstendione gained .2 ounce, while the other two only gained .02.
“It wasn't that much, but for us it would be like gaining 5 pounds a week,” Shikles said.
Their teachers, Tom Backes and Marilyn Maier, said students at their school are all required to submit and entry to the school science fair. First-place winners from there go on to compete at the regional competition.
“It gives kids the opportunity to pick something that really interests them,” Backes said. “Within science, they get to pick their own unique science field.”
Entries were divided into microbiology, physics, environmental science, earth and space science, botany and behavioral science.
With a range of entries, Backes said he is always impressed by something the students have done.
“I think this year is probably the best year for the projects,” he said.
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