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2009 Award Winners
2009
TCRSF Photos
Upcoming Student Events
As
soon as possible (NOW), file your research plan, form 1, form
1A, and form 1B with your school's IRB (Internal Review Board) for 2010. Forms for 2010
are now available. If you have
rules or paperwork questions or concerns,
send them to TCRSF's Scientific Review Committee via email to src@tcrsf.org. Include
in your email whether the project is a middle school (grade 6-8)
or a high school (grade 9-12) project, and include your research
plan.
When
Is The Next TCRSF?
TCRSF is on a
Friday & Saturday in February 2010. The dates have not yet
been finalized because we can get the Field House at the
University of Minnesota only after the University's athletic schedule is
finalized for the next year, because we use the track and
athletic facility to hold our fair. We hope to have the dates finalized early this fall. Research paper dates are early in January 2010.
Watch our website for updated information!
Our choices
for 2010 fair dates are: 1. Feb. 26-27, 2. Feb. 19-20, 3.
Feb.12-13.
Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair
San
Jose, California, May 9–15, 2010
I-SWEEEP
2010
- April 14-19, 2010:
Online
registration is open October 26, 2009 - March 5, 2010. Those who
attended ISWEEEP in 2009 from TCRSF gave it rave reviews!
JSHS:
National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium
2010 dates & location for national JSHS not
yet announced.
Sanofi-aventis
International BioGENEius Challenge 2010 dates not yet published.
Upcoming TCRSF Events
TCRSF volunteers will be attending the following events. Please send
an email to fairdirector@tcrsf.org
or call (Contact Us) if you are interested in volunteering on
our planning committee for 2009-2010.
TCRSF Full
Committee meeting - We will
evaluate the results of our 2009 fair and plan for the 2010
fair, which will be held in February 2010. Date of the meeting
is yet to be determined.
TCRSF
students from three affiliations competed at ISEF in Reno,
Nevada, May 10-16, 2009. Prithwis
Mukhopadhyay and Stephen Trusheim return as 2nd year
Finalists. First year ISEF Finalists competing are
Tiffanie Stone, Michael Fuad, Martin Camacho, Chee Xiong, and
the teams of Sahar Hakim-Hashemi and Sierra Danforth and
Nicholas NaSal and Joseph Lane. ISEF Finalist chosen at
Minnesota state to compete is Elaina Hamann. Alternates
traveling with "ISEF Twin Cities" include Xin Li,
Michael Crump, and the team of Ashley Santilli and Emily Bostrom.
Alternates will participate in all ISEF events except for the
actual judging competition. Congratulations to team Twin
Cities on a great job at ISEF!
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Twin
Cities Students Win Davidson Fellowships!
Twin
Cities' ISEF Finalist in 2008 & 2009, Prithwis Mukhopadhyay
(Woodbury Senior High, Woodbury) has won a $10,000 Davidson Fellowship Scholarship for 2009 with his
science project for 2009! Twin Cities' Finalist in 2008, Michael
Cherkassky (Edina Senrio HIgh, Edina) won a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship Scholarship in 2008 with his
science project for 2008. Congratulations to these science scholars! We
are proud of their accomplishments. For more information on the Davidson
Institute for Talent Development, please check their website.
http://www.davidsongifted.org/fellows/
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Twin
Cities Student Wins Borlaug-Ruan International Internship
Twin
Cities' ISEF Finalist in 2009, Tiffanie Stone
(AFSA High School - Agriculture Food Science Academy, Vadnais
Heights)
has won a prestigious Borlaug-Ruan
International Internship and will be studying/researching during
summer 2009
in the China
National Hybrid Rice Research & Development Center (CNHRRDC) in
Changsha, Hunan, CHINA! Congratulations to Tiffanie on winning this
incredible opportunity of a lifetime. We
are proud of her accomplishments.
To
qualify for this internship, Tiffanie had to be previously selected to participate in
the three-day Global Youth
Institute hosted by the World Food Prize
Foundation, which she attended last year in Iowa. We look forward to
hearing about her research.
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Twin
Cities Regional Science Fair (TCRSF) Thanks Our
Sponsors
February
27-28, 2009
Without our sponsors
and volunteers, we could not have a science fair! Our financial
sponsors at the Platinum Level are the 3M
Foundation,
Ecolab, Medtronic
and the University of
Minnesota, Thank you, 3M,
Medtronic, Ecolab,
and University of Minnesota,
for your continuing support of science education!
Our financial
sponsor at the Gold Level is FilmTec
Corporation (wholly owned subsidiary of Dow
Chemical). Thank you, FilmTec
Corporation for becoming a new sponsor! Thank you, for your
support in encouraging students in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics.
Our financial
sponsors at the Silver Level are Alliant
Techsystems, City of St.
Paul Youth
Fund, and Midway
Party Rental, Inc.
And, our financial
sponsors at the Bronze Level are General
E.W. Rawlings Chapter of the Air Force Association, Twin
City Catering, the Slattery
Sales Group and Ed's
Trophies Inc. in St. Paul Park, MN (email:
edstrophies@comcast.net, call Donna)
If you are
interested in becoming a financial sponsor of the science fair, please
contact Mike Lohman at 763-421-3338.
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Local
Teacher Wins International Agilent Teacher Award at ISEF 2009 (see News
page)
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At
the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair, Lois Fruen (Breck
School) and Sonja Dunlap (Murray Jr. High) won the Seagate
Science Mentor Awards!
Two
of our Twin Cities science teachers have been chosen to receive
the 2009 Seagate Science Mentor Awards, a statewide recognition
for educators who have mentored student participants in the
regional science fairs across
Minnesota
. The awards were presented to Sonja
Dunlap from
Murray
Junior High School
in
St. Paul
and Lois Fruen from
Breck
School
in
Golden Valley
at the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair awards
ceremony, March 30 at the Crowne
Plaza Hotel in downtown St. Paul.
A
press release on the mentor awards is available on the Minnesota Academy of
Science website.
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Lois
Fruen (Breck School) wins Perfect Paperwork Award
TCRSF
Committee awarded Lois Fruen (Breck School, Golden Valley) the "Almost Perfect" award
for having all her students paperwork nearly perfect! In fact,
she won a small gift certificate in honor of perfect paperwork
for all her students projects and papers!
TCRSF's SRC
(Scientific Review Committee) is available to answer your questions
for next year's projects. If you have questions or concerns,
send them via email to src@tcrsf.org.
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Twin
Cities Regional Science Fairs - Benefits of Doing Both a Science
Project and a Research Paper
Is
science fair just for geeks or nerds? NO WAY! Doing a good
science fair project teaches real life skills that apply to
EVERYONE!
First
of all, what is a science project? A science
project is the process of running a controlled experiment,
proposing a new theory based on library or experimental
research, or developing a new concept, invention, program, or
design (engineering). A science project is not a report
about an area of science. A science project is not building a
model that demonstrates something, unless the point of the
project is a new engineering design. Models of volcanoes, or of
the solar system, or of the heart are not a science project. Use
of a model to demonstrate a new theory or finding is, however,
acceptable. At the school and regional levels of
competition in a science fair, the science project is more about
the process of science and project work than it is about the
specific findings.
The
purpose of doing a science project is to teach the student
several skills. The first skill to be learned is the planning,
execution, and evaluation of a project. Every project, including
remodeling or decorating a room in your house or apartment or
building a deck, requires the same basic process.
Doing a
science project teaches the student extremely valuable skills
integrating reading, writing, spelling, grammar, critical
thinking, scientific methodology, graphic arts, math,
statistics, ethics, logic, computer science, self-learning
of one or more technical or specialty fields, and public
speaking and defense in front of expert judges. When a student
completes a science fair project, year after year, through
junior and senior high school, the science fair process yields
mature, self-confident, skilled, and competitive young leaders
who have career goals and the preparation, discipline, and drive
to attain them.
Did
you know that doing an excellent science project in high school
is likely the highest paying job your high school student can
get?
A top project and paper can net a quarter of a million
dollars just in winnings, and that doesn’t count what it
does for a student’s resume, college application, and
self-confidence! Many students earn $5000 or more!
Some of these projects take as few as 6 weeks to
complete.
Now that pays more than a summer job!
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