This weekend, Nancy Olenchek and six of her Kingsley High School research students headed to their first-ever science fair. All of them away with an award or honorable mention recognition!
Students competed at the prestigious Flint Regional Science & Engineering Fair. The annual exhibition was recognized as one of the best in the region by Nat Geo. It is also an affiliate of the International Science & Engineering Fair.
Junior Zach Middleton was a fair finalist, taking 8th place overall for his research titled The baseball pitch and how spin rate affects vertical movement and velocity.
Research class is a new course offered this year. Ms. Olenchek tasked students with finding a topic and formulating an experiment around it.
The students' projects aim to answer a variety of questions, including “What are the absorbency levels of different beauty blenders?”, “How can we improve foster care applications?”, “How does arc affect shooting percentage in basketball?”, and more.
Congratulations to our award-winning research students!
Zack Middleton, junior: Technology Division Certificate of Distinction
and Fair Finalist, 8th Place
The baseball pitch and how spin rate affects vertical movement and velocity
Marisa Graham, junior: Honorable Mention
Beauty Blender Absorbency
Alaina Mitchell, junior: Honorable Mention
High School Women's 5 Kilometer Race Times; Comparing Freshman to Senior Year
Landon Durkin, senior: Research Fellow Award
Basketball Arc versus Shooting Percentage: How a player's practice arc correlates to game shooting percentage
Anna Bauer, sophomore: Research Fellow Award
A comparison between stem cells created by Cassiopea xamachana and Drosophila melanogaster larvae
Maranda Christianson, junior: Research Fellow Award
Memory improvement through Memorization
ABC12 Flint interviewed sophomore Anna Bauer about her project and the experience at the fair: check it out below!
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To learn more about Research class, email Nancy Olenchek at nolenchek@kingsleyschools.org
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