The Science Fair is an event in the International Course that allows students to present their ideas and findings about their experiments or projects to teachers, judges, other students, and parents. The key outcome of this event is to create interest in science in the students and build skills involved in scientific inquiry. The Science Fair is an annual event the International Course looks forward to at the end of each academic year.
The Science Fair involves the following:
Students do research and experiments or projects that are aligned with the year’s
Science Fair theme.
2. Students present their experiments or projects on power point, and display the six
skills in scientific inquiry, Aim, Hypothesis, Materials, Method, Results, and Conclusion,
on a display board along with a model to show the experiment or project.
3. Judges are invited on the day of the science fair to assess students’ knowledge of the
experiment or project, assess their power point and display board presentations, and
rate their overall performance in terms of knowledge of content, scientific skills, problem
solving, organization and cooperation.
In the run up to the Science Fair students are taught how to work as a team in researching, experimenting, preparing and presenting, as well as how to make power point presentations and videos. The students learn that preparation, organization, team work, problem solving, helping others, and completing tasks on time play key roles in successful science fair presentations
The theme of the 2014 Science Fair was “Science in Action”. The challenge for the students is to create a project or do an experiment to apply or put into action what they have learned in the classroom. All students from J1 to H2 participated in the Science Fair. They were divided into groups. Some of the projects were robot arm, NEX rocket, solar air heater and some experimented on corrosion, bacterial growth and magnets. The students spent several weeks making their projects, videos and display boards, and before the day of the fair everybody was busy practicing their speeches and powerpoint presentations. Congratulations to all the students who participated and all the teachers who helped in making the event a success. Special thanks to our judges and parents who came to support us.
