Twenty-two students who qualified for the Mountainview Science and Technology Science Fair have qualified for the Central Alberta Regional Science Fair, to be held March 29 in Red Deer.
Six winners and two delegates from the fair in Red Deer will qualify for the nationals, currently slated to be held May 31-June 7 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The Mountainview Science and Technology Science Fair was held March 1 at École Olds High School.
Following are the results from the fair:
GRADES 5 AND 6
Best of Fair and Gold Medal
Eli Bird, Grade 6, Cremona School, “Neuron Function.”
First Runner-up and Gold Medal – Aidric Dulmage, Grade 5, Holy Trinity School, “Starch Wars.”
Second Runner-up and Gold Medal – Heath Poland, Grade 5, Hugh Sutherland School, “Why Do Birds Have Different Feathers?”
Silver Medals
Hailey Sikstrom and Emma Epp, Grade 6, Hugh Sutherland School, “History of the Exmoor Ponies.”
Natalie Conrad, Grade 6, Olds Koinonia School, “Instant Cameras.”
Jonah Majak and Kaylee Pierre, Grade 5, Cremona, “How do Batteries Work?”
Bronze Medals
Eliza Skenduli, Grade 6, Hugh Sutherland School, “Your Kidneys.”
Alejandro Ikenaga, Grade 6, Deer Meadow School, “Edible Water Bottles.”
Nathanael Johnson, Grade 5, Deer Meadow School, “Favourite Food For Our Feathered Friends.”
Jessica Gardner, Grade 5, Holy Trinity School, “Electromagnetism.”
GRADES 7 TO 9
Best of Fair and Gold Medal
Claire Friesen, Grade 9, Cremona School, “Modifying Wings to Delay Stall.”
First Runner-up and Gold Medal – Aleksander Soiseth and Aurorah Soiseth, Grade 7, West Glen School,“Dogs vs Humans: a Look at Hygiene.”
Second Runner-up and Silver Medal – Kirubalini Murugananthan, Grade 8, Deer Meadow School, “Climate Crisis and the Baby Boom Shift.”
Silver Medal
Brienna Sayer and Grace Sayer, Grade 7, Olds Koinonia School, “Green Sea Turtles.”
Bronze Medals
Jebnael Ikenaga, Grade 7, Deer Meadow School, “Dessert Straws.”
Millie Koch, Grade 8, Deer Meadow School, “Crystal Clear.”
Madeline Palyga, Grade 8, Hugh Sutherland School, “The Drowsy Dilemma.”
GRADES 10 TO 12
Best of Fair and Gold Medal – Keiara Lewis, Grade 12, Olds High School, “When Does It End?”
First Runner-up and Gold Medal – Oceana Jones, Grade 12, Olds High School, “Evolutionary Autism.”
Second Runner-up and Silver Medal – Emily Graham, Grade 10, Olds High School, Evolution and Our Connection to Music.”
Bronze Medal
Cheyanne Card, Grade 10, Olds High School, “Stress and Memory.”
KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 2
Best of Fair and gold medal
Harper McMullen, Grade 2, Ross Ford School, “The Cupcake Experiment.”
First Runner-up and gold medal – Benton Ross, Grade 2, Olds Koinonia Christian School, “Electricity.”
Second Runner-up and gold medal – Sawyer Forster and Miller Forster, Grade 1, River Valley School, “The Centrifugal Force-ter Boys!”
Gold medals
Alayna Day, Grade 2, Olds Koinonia Christian School, “Magnet Might.”
Rory Crone, Grade 2, Carstairs Elementary School, “Popcorn Explosion.”
Meera Osborne and Brooke Slade, Grade 2, Carstairs Elementary School, “Soda-rific Cookie Lab.”
Aurora Pollock, Grade 2, Carstairs Elementary School, “The Biggest Bounce.”
Silver medals
Reina Sullivan, Grade 1, Carstairs Elementary School, “How Long for Candy to Dissolve?”
Zoey Howes, Grade 2, Carstairs Elementary School, “How Predators Attack Their Prey.”
Oliver Packer, Grade 1, Olds Elementary School, “The Power of Magnets.”
Lily Meija, Kindergarten, Carstairs Elementary School, “The Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly.”
Rae Cameron, Grade 2, Carstairs Elementary School, “Which Wax Burns the Fastest?”
Bronze medals
Jack Brenneis, Grade 2, River Valley School, “How Much Heat?”
Dayn Nisbet, Grade 1, Olds Elementary School, “Which Liquid Damages Teeth the Most?”
Paulina Mora Argoti and Gwen McPherson, Grade 2, Olds Elementary School, “What If We Used Colourful Lights on Plants?”
GRADES 3 AND 4
Best of Fair and gold medal
Isla Falle, Grade 4, Carstairs Elementary School, “How Long Does Gum Flavour Last?”
First Runner-up and gold medal – Ruby Braybrook, Grade 4, Cremona School, “Why do Our Bodies Crave Junk Food?”
Second Runner-up and gold medal – Scarlett Dickey, Grade 4, Carstairs Elementary School, “Microscopic Mystery”
Gold medal
Adara Myhr, Grade 3, River Valley School, “Secrets of the Venus Flytrap.”
Silver medals
Bennett Wielenga, Grade 3, Olds Elementary School, “Potato Power!”
Jaylin Gonzalez-Rivas and Madison Wackett, Grade 4, Ross Ford School, “Water Filter Competition.”
Oscar Kowaliuk and Aimee Kowaliuk, Grade 4, Olds Elementary School, “Density: Where Did the Grape Go?”
Amaya Larson, Grade 4, Olds Elementary School, “Which Cereal Stays Crunchy in Milk the Longest?”
Avery Mitchell, Grade 3, Carstairs Elementary School, “Dyed Flowers.”
Owen Eichhorst and Oliver Windsor, Grade 4, Olds Elementary School, “Power From the Wind.”
John Hook and Beau Martin, Grade 4, Olds Koinonia School, “Which Pop Makes the Biggest Eruption?”
Gentry Harvie and Presley Brander, Grade 4, Ross Ford School, “Dirty Surfaces.”
Emma Mitchell, Grade 3, Carstairs Elementary School, “Battle of the Smells.”
Bronze medals
Isaac Osborne and Booker Wills, Grade 4, Carstairs Elementary School, “Booker and Isaac’s Cupcake Explosion.”
Rayden Rodych, Grade 4, Olds Elementary School, “Lung Capacity.”
Ayden Stromsmoe, Grade 4, Olds Elementary School, “Packaging and Ripening of Bananas.”
Delta Riley, Grade 4, Ross Ford School, “I Wish I Had Duck Feet.”
SPECIAL AWARDS
Technology – Willow Brooks-Pitts and Tenley Marthaller, Grade 4, Carstairs elementary School, “Soaring Through the Skies.”
Engineering – Annabella Zenkovic, Grade 3, Carstairs Elementary School, “The Power of Wind.”
Engineering – Cort Israelson and Chet Israelson, Grade 3, Ross Ford School, “What’s the Strongest Beam?”
Consumer Product Testing – Anne Laurene Maitim and Elize Maitim, Grade 3, Holy Trinity School, “The Banana Experiment.”
Nature – Daniel Hampton, Grade 4, Cremona School, “Leopard Geckos.”
Agriculture – Barrett Dulmage, Kindergarten, Holy Trinity School, “The Great Egg-speriment.”
Environment – Colby Poland, Grade 3, Carstairs Elementary School, “What’s Beyond the Solar system?”
Chemistry – Josiah Austin, Grade 4, Ross Ford School, “Let’s Get Soapy (the Science of Soap).”
Biology – Vince Laing and Corbin Spencer, Grade 4, Carstairs Elementary School, “Which Handle is the Dirtiest?”
Nutrition – Rilynn Holmberg and Jayden Lefebvre, Grade 7, Cremona, “Tooth Trouble.”
Psychology – Cheyanne Card, Grade 10, Olds High School, “Stress and Memory.”
Biology – Kyla Ball, Grade 7, Hugh Sutherland School, “Transpiring Colours?”
Physics – Jayln Garrett and Hettie Knight, Grade 6, Cremona School, “The Sonic Effect of Sound.”
Mountainview Science and Technology Science Fair president Ruth Roedler says ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, participation in the fair has been down, “but it’s starting to come back.”
She’s hoping most of the kids who’ve qualified to move on to the Central Alberta Regional Science Fair will do so.
“We really stressed it on Saturday afternoon. Please, if you possibly can, go on,” she said during an interview with the Albertan.
Roedler said in past years, some of the kids involved in the fair were “objectionable.”
But that wasn’t the case this year.
“I’ve got to say this past weekend we didn’t have any objectional kids or anything. It was just a real pleasure,” she said.
“I had one of the judges say to me -- it was the first time he judged -- and he said to me, ‘you know, after listening to these kids, I have hope.’
“He was very impressed with the kids, so that made me feel good too.”
