PARSIPPANY — The Children’s Librarians at the Lake Hiawatha branch created a Science Olympiad as part of the library’s Summer Reading Program – Exercise Your Mind – Get Ready, Get Set Read!
The 2016 Science Olympiad was held at the Lake Hiawatha branch library of the Parsippany Library System on Saturday, July 16.
Students in grades 2-8 created science projects and experiments based on categories:
Creativity in Approach – colorful, creative presentation and layout.
Use of Scientific Method – hypothesis, observations, conclusions
Thoroughness of Investigations and Research
Clarity of Expression in Presentation – good verbal skills
Ideas had to be submitted by June 30. Eleven students entered with a variety of science projects. Topics included: electromagnets, bean plant experiments, simple circuits, the universe, aerodynamics, ice fishing and salt, and air pressure.
The four categories were judged by four teen volunteers who viewed each project, asked a variety of questions to the students about how the their project was assembled, and listened to what each student had to share about what they learned during the process.
The winners of each of these four categories won a $5.00 gift card to the The Dairy at Lake Hiawatha (donated by The Dairy at Lake Hiawatha) in addition to a prize. Thanks to the generosity and support of the Lake Hiawatha Dairy for this special event, each “young scientist” received a coupon for one free ice cream cone.
