Centerville Elementary students make science fair for 1st time

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- In March, hundreds of mediate and precocious schoolhouse students showcased their elaborate probe successful the STEM tract astatine the 72nd Fresno County Science Fair.

For the archetypal time, Centerville Elementary participated successful this year's Fresno County Science Fair.

Their subject teacher, Sandra Adame, says providing this accidental for her students is simply a large woody and is arrogant of their hard work.

Two seventh-grade students are putting Sanger Unified connected the representation with their awesome and elaborate subject projects.

"These students are unthinkable students. They are unthinkable quality beings extracurricular of the classroom, truthful it does not astonishment maine to an grade that they are doing truthful well," said Adame.

At the commencement of the schoolhouse year, Adame assigned her students probe projects of their prime and told them they could instrumentality it a measurement further by participating successful the Fresno County Science Fair.

Twelve students took connected the challenge, showcasing their enactment astatine the Fresno Fairgrounds.

"From ant farms and however those are built to questions astir societal media," Adame said.

Two of them are receiving designation and currency prizes, including Diego Cano.

His task was connected the cognitive effects caused by excessive vulnerability to societal media.

He says this acquisition is influencing his future.

"I person ever wanted to beryllium a communicative animator, but with this project, I deliberation I privation to beryllium a psychologist," Cano explained.

The 2nd pupil is Adame's son, Joel.

Adame says that adjacent though it was challenging to navigate immoderate details of the subject fair, the enactment was overwhelming, reminding her of the enactment she erstwhile had arsenic a young pupil successful Sanger Unified.

"I had astonishing subject teachers who conscionable opened the quality to deliberation past what I thought were my limitations. Knowing that we person truthful overmuch support, hopefully, this is lone the commencement of a caller contented here," said Adame.

This weekend, some students volition beryllium traveling to Los Angeles with their families for the State Science Fair.

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