BDMS Judge

A few days ago I got the opportunity to be a judge at the BDMS Science Fair! Me and a few other girls in the education program were sent to the school to judge the 6th graders science fair projects. What we had to do was circle around the different projects and pick who we wanted to grade. Along with the students oral presentation, the students all made a large poster to go along with their project. While the students stood there and told us about their project, we were to fill out a rubric which graded their materials, pictures, presentation, hypothesis, conclusion, neatness and much more. I judged about 6 students projects and they were all unique in their own ways! For each category on the rubric, the most points that the student's could receive was a 5. Almost every project I judged deserved a 5 in every single category. I was shocked as to how educated these sixth graders were, I could have never done such an amazing project to save my life! One student I got the opportunity to judge was one of my fieldwork students from my sophomore year! I didn't think she would recognize me..but she did! She was so ecstatic to see me and she really wanted me to judge her science fair project so of course I did! She was incredibly confident and her project was amazing and nothing like I've ever seen before. Having this student remember me from just a short amount of time working with her really made me happy because I must have had an impact on her in some way! :)

After circling around the projects about the stroop effect, sound barriers, diet coke vs. pepsi zero, peeps in different liquids and much more, I realized that these 6th graders were amazing little scientists! The judges were told that the students were so nervous..but there was no reason for it! Each student prepared their oral presentations ahead of time and along with that, came their amazingly creative poster boards!! I was so impressed with how neat and organized most of them were. This was a really fun opportunity for me because it made me become aware of how many science experiments there are out there and learn all new facts based off of the students projects. I loved catching up with previous fieldwork students and seeing how they have succeeded in only a year time! The science fair was an amazing day and I can't wait to hear some of these student's names in the news because of how smart and creative they are!!