Though everyone had no trouble tasting the sawdust at 50-100%, more women tasted it at 15% and 30%. Shettler said he had a lot of fun doing the experiments and got some interesting results. Matthew’s Catholic School sixth-grader Cole Shettler got the idea for his project from an online meme, titled “How much sawdust can you put in a Rice Krispy Treat before someone notices?” Sawdust has historically been used to cut bread and other kinds of food in times of famine. “I enjoy the process of making something that eventually works, like solving every problem that comes up and it’s just so satisfying when you come up with the final product,” Wong said. Wong said a recent competition involving the robots revealed a bunch of problems that needed fixing. He was surrounded by other robotics students who were demonstrating their machines in a small ring set up toward the back of the Expo Center. WHILE TINKERING with his battle robot, Glacier High School sophomore Jedah Wong pointed out that the robot shoots out discs at his competitor. “The question is how much casein plastic can I get out of different amounts of milk and vinegar? My hypothesis is if I am using whole milk, I thought I would make the most casein because it’s the closest to the kind of milk they used back in the day,” Jackson said. Jackson was interested in learning what kinds of milk would yield the most plastic. Casein plastic was a common way to make different kinds of ornaments from 1900 until around 1945. I’ve also been really interested in architecture lately, and that requires a lot of math which is my favorite subject,” Dotter said.įourth-grader Max Jackson, from Ruder Elementary in Columbia Falls, was inspired by an old way to make plastic using milk. “We have a lot of bridges around here because of the rivers and ravines that we have, so I decided to try and find out which kind of bridge is the most common and which one can hold the most weight. Many students said they drew inspiration from what was around them to come up with the idea for their experiments.įifth-grader Lilly Dotter from Edgerton Elementary noticed how many bridges there are around the valley and started to wonder what kind of bridge is the best. There are some really interesting things out there, how they go through their experiments and how they can apply it to the real world,” Marsonette said. “To see the imagination of the kids - some of their experiments are just different from the typical boiling water kind of stuff. He likes seeing what the students can come up with for their projects. Retired civil engineer Roger Marsonette has been judging the science fair for about seven years. Science lovers of all ages packed into the Expo Center at the Flathead County Fairgrounds to take a look at projects from students in third grade and up. How does global warming affect corn crops? How much salt do you need to add to water to make an egg float? How much sawdust can you put in a cereal treat bar before someone notices? These are just a few questions asked by students from schools all across the region as they participated in the Flathead County Science Fair on Thursday.
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