Students slowly trailed into the Eagle’s Nest, hauling their standardized cardboard display boards. They set them on the tables and sat down, admiring each others’ experiments. The sixth period bell rang and the judges started to check out the first presentations set up. It’s a science fair.

“We have a pretty good turn out this year,” junior Thabit Pulak said. “I really enjoy seeing everyone’s presentations and hearing about the amount of work they put into it and how long they were testing.”

Students were to prepare a display that outlines what they were testing, how they tested it and what materials they used to perform the experiment. The amount of time spent on experiments ranged from one day to a year.

“The science fair is very important to me,” sophomore Audrey Brown said. “I spent four solid months of my experiment to test which study habits are best for students and it’s nice to finally show it. It may not win, but at least I tried.”

The RHS science fair is an annual event ran by the school’s science teachers with a centralized theme. Several teachers volunteered to judge the experiments, including a faculty member from UTD Center for STEM Education and Research, to pick which experiment was most innovative and well executed.

“We base our judging off a variety of aspects,” judge Joe Ferrara from the UTD Center for STEM Education and Research said. “Obviously the experiment has to be neat, but we also take originality into consideration, as well as how the presentation was with the student. Overall, we get a lot of very good experiments and it’s going to be a little difficult to choose a winner.”

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