The science fair at Timmerman Elementary School brought a discovery just in time for Mother’s Day: Roses and Pepsi are a good combination.
Chad Moberly, a fourth-grader in Stephanie Bosiljevac’s class, exhibited an experiment that used cut roses that had been placed in water, Sunny D and Pepsi. He had expected water to be the best liquid for the flowers.
“My experiment did not support my hypothesis,” Chad wrote. “I was really surprised that the Pepsi rose looked healthier than the others.”
It looked, in its near-perfect state, almost embalmed by the carbonation and sugar.
The fair, which was mandatory for fourth-graders, attracted enough entries from other grades to fill table after table with displays in the school gymnasium.
Parents, grandparents and other friends and relatives toured the exhibits after school ended at 4 p.m.
Jaden Silva chose live plants for her science project.
“My project was to prove if plants could be watered with anything other than water,” Jaden said.
The idea had come to her when she went to get a drink of water from the refrigrator.
“I chose four different things to water with,” she said. “Water was just my ‘control’.”
She learned something from the project.
“I found out that milk can also be fed and plants also survive,” she said.
One liquid grew its own kind of plant.
“I found out that orange juice grew mold — and the vinegar (plant) died in two days,” she said.
Atalin Doudican chose to monitor germs for her project. On a large tri-folded cardboard stand, Atalin exhibited results of her project that included wiping down common items, computers, shopping carts, and restroom doors.
The object with the most germs was the turtle food bowl, followed closely by the school’s water fountain, a computer and a shopping cart.
Her exhibited was titled “See What My Hands See.”
Henry Gomez’s experiment in the science fair would have pleased Nabisco.
Henry’s hypothesis stated: “I think the Oreo cookies will sog faster because it is smaller. I think the M&M cookies will sog slower because it is bigger.”
Henry tracked the “sog” as the experiment progressed, and came to a startling conclusion:
“It turns out to be that my hypothesis is wrong,” Henry wrote. “Oreos sog slower than M&M.”
The fair was just one of a spate of programs and activities that took place this week in the Emporia school district.
On Thursday alone, Lowther South Intermediate School students went to Camp Alexander to participate in Earth Day activities; kindergarten students at Riverside presented a music program; Logan Avenue had a fiesta and Village held a cultural fair, both in the early evening; Walnut kindergarten had an evening music program, and students at Emporia High School presented the Spring Vocal Concert.
Lowther North had an orchestra concert this week, while pre-enrollment was held at Maynard Early Childhood Center and a “Safe Routes to School” kickoff began at Logan Avenue. Most schools attended a multicultural festival at Emporia State University.
Tonight, EHS Latinos Unidos’ Scholarship Enchilada Dinner will begin at 6 p.m. today at 12th Avenue Baptist Church.