Experimentation, observations and gathering results were the parameters
met at Wading River Elementary School’s recent Science Fair, and three
students will represent the school in the upcoming Brookhaven National
Laboratory’s Elementary School Science Fair on May 5.
Third-grader Connor Hunt will represent the school with his “Ready, Aim,
Fire!” project; fourth-grader Gabriella Gallagher’s project, “Plinko
Probability,” and fifth-grader Chloe Jaeger’s work, “Investigating
Outside Temperature and Man’s Best Friend,” will be entered into the
competition. They will compete against the projects of other K-6
students from throughout Suffolk County.
Student projects included friction, DNA, slime and super fruit,
represented in charts, experiments, demonstrations and diagrams.
Honorable mention winners were third-graders Louis Cerniglia, Nathan
Combs, Richard Cordano, Mia Stallone and Shealyn Varbero; fourth-graders
Jocelyn Kavanaugh, Everett McClintock, Katie Provencher and Forrest
Teptenhardt; and fifth-graders Connor DiMasi, Katherine Grzymala, Selene
Hunt and Cameron Sheedy.
“It’s always rewarding to encourage our young scientists,” said
Principal Louis Parrinello, of the students who work all year to
discover cause-and-effect relationships and combine them into logical
answers.