SCIENCE OLYMPICS
Inquiring Minds — and the Stuff They Create
1,200 student inventors test their creativity and critical thinking skills at the annual APEGA Science Olympics — and, in the process, learn plenty about engineering and geoscience Standing before their hand-crafted aluminum foil aqueduct, elementary students from Suzuki Charter School carefully analyzed their creation for potential design flaws. “It will work,” one student confidently reassured her teammates. And, to some extent, it did. The students, taking part in the APEGA Science Olympics in Edmonton, were challenged to design a system that would transport water using gravity. Their tool kit included a few basic supplies: aluminum foil, wooden skewers, pipe cleaners, wax paper, and straws.
UP TO THE CHALLENGE Top Waiting to compete, elementary students check out their images on the big screen at the APEGA Science Olympics in Edmonton. Bottom High school students in Edmonton ponder self-propelling possibilities for their vehicle, made of common household items like mousetraps, CDs, and balloons.
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