RUSDLive

Last night was another great celebration of the work of our teachers and students through the annual Science & Engineering Fair.  The standing room only Science Fair was held at the UCR Theatre and was in collaboration with the UCR Bourns College of Engineering and UCR College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences.  In Riverside, we are blessed with not only a good educational system but one that provides value-added options for students that go above and beyond the normal/required elements of "schooling."

Science and Engineering are more than completing homework or taking a test (though those are clearly involved) but it is really about doing science.  These students and their teachers engaged the "doing" through a variety of very interesting projects including examples such as: the testing of local sushi (no not the taste test), measurement of various nitrogen dioxide levels at schools, and creating mathematical model for local use of electricity.

All of these students "won" with their engagement in the doing of science and engineering, but the sweepstakes winners for the elementary, junior, and senior divisions were:

• Connor M. -- "Soggy Crackers? I Don't Think So!"
• Saumya K. -- "Understanding Color Development in Citrus"
• Imran A., Elma F., Shanta H. -- An Analysis Between ADC Green and Wood Waste Using the Processes of Post-Hydrolysis vs. Enzymatic Hydrolysis and K-lignin