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KLR students excel at STEAM Fair

Fourth and fifth grade students at KLR participated in a STEAM Fair. What is STEAM? It stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and math. The focus is hands-on learning with real-world applications to help students develop a variety of skill sets.

The projects created by the students for the KLR STEAM Fair were amazing. The students showed their  creativity as well as their knowledge of science, technology, engineering and math.

Here are the awards given to the fourth and fifth-grade:

Fifth Grade

First Place

  • Javin Snowden and Serenity Moore – The Solar Oven
  • Reagan Zangla and Josephine Marin – Dirty Water to Clean Water
  • Taylor Crumley – Electric Fruit
  • Juan Velez – Converting Sunlight into Heat
  • Hannah Bell – Ball Launcher
A poster board filled with information about the experiment showing if fruit produces electricity.
Lemons or tomatoes? Do either produce electricity? That was what Taylor Crumley attempted to find out with her experiment, ,which won her a first place prize among the fifth grade students.

Second Place

  • Morgan Hutchins – Can Liquids Cause Tooth Decay
  • Taisha Cordero – Water Fountain
  • Brayden Davis – Make Light from Wind
  • Tyiese Mack – The Amazing Catapult
  • Tristyn Watson – The Amazing Egg Drop
  • Shawn Palmer – Water Filtration System

Third Place

  • Sam Rein – Splitting Water Molecules
  • Giavonna Smith and Skyla Borgia – Lemon Electricity
  • Sierra Auletta – Story Bridges
  • Emma Rausch – Electromagnetic Power

Honorable Mention

  • Isaac Salcedo and Joniel Cholula – Potato Power
  • Angelo Spence – How much can a Cardboard Boat Hold?
  • Michael Riebe – Dragster
  • Isabela Rivera and Jessica Stanton – Tomato Battery
  • Miguel Cruz – Dirty Water
  • Andre Hill – Is Your Water Dirty?

 

Fourth Grade

First Place 

  • Nikolai Franco – Lemon Battery
  • Tharah Tate – Hydro Electricity
  • Lorenny Guerra – Walking Water
  • Lisa Collins and Michael Pappas – Magic Liquid Sand

Poster board showing the words Lemon Battery in bright yellow with drawings of light bulbs all around and the experiment written out. A girl is reading it.
Nikolai Franco’s Lemon Battery experiment showed whether lemons were more than sour.
A colorful poster shows the hydro electricity experiment while a girl in a pink shirt reads it.
Tharah Tate’s project for hydro electricity won a first place prize for the fourth grade class

Second Place

  • Ivelisse Rubert and Jamel Little – Last Balloon Standing
  • Alexandra Maceghee and Kayla Seaman – Color Ball Magic Milk
  • Hope Kinne – The Art of the Heart
  • Karen DutanI and Josheiliz Gonzalez – Crystals
  • Deanna Livingston – Plastic Milk
Two girls stand on either side of their science project
Fourth-grade students Karen Dutan and Josheiliz Gonzalez proudly show their project about crystals.

Third Place 

  • Hayden Gonzalez – Butler Bot
  • Sincere Embry – Tooth Decay
  • Thomas Macias and Aga Chowdhury – How Photosynthesis Works

Honorable Mention

  • Sasha Forbes – Electrical Magnet
  • Fiolla Gjonbalaj – Recycling
  • Rahmel Harris – Santa’s Gift Box
Two young students stand wearing the medals they earned. One is holding a certificate.
The students were proud of their accomplishments and earned certificates and medals.