Science Day

[cornerofmadness]

The Science Day went well. I have to say the projects weren't quite as exciting as last year but on the other hand we had a crap ton MORE 5th and 6th graders and a lot less 9th and above. That was disappointing on one hand but exciting on the other to see the littler kids be this excited about STEM (and hopefully soon that'll be STEAM). I do plan to talk to the organizers and ask just what are the rules given to the teachers because this is the second year we're being told that 'my teacher told me that didn't need to be in there.' And I rather believe the kids because it has to be approved by the teacher before it ends up at this level of competition but most of them were missing lab books, graphs, photos and bibliographies which are mandatory at the State Competition in May (and we sent 30 projects on).

My favorite was the young lady who wanted to help her generation sleep better because cell phones, lap tops and tablets screw up your hormones (Melatonin) with their blue light. She worked with blue light glasses and sleep monitoring apps and had the foresight to wonder if age made a difference, though she thought it would be down to presbyopia so she and I talked about extensions for her project next year. On the other hand I thought the little fifth grader was going to faint on me he was so nervous but he did well (and pronounced shit right unlike my nursing students).

I don't know who won the money prizes. My sugar was still being a dick this morning (It's a little better tonight) so I came home once the judging was done. I'm like the worst judge too. I'm a marshmallow. I scored generous. And we had a bunch of no-shows so I had to pick up all that judging too. Also how to know you're getting old? They had goodie bags for the kids and their parents and had left overs so I took one and I was more excited for the hot/cold gel packs than I was the candy.

I managed to finish and submit my novella Cassadaga Nights (Yeah, yeah ELD, I never did change it) and I revamped chapter one of Splinters, my YA urban fantasy because I want it in hand at the steampunk thing. No one might want to see it but I want it anyhow
But I AM having issues. For some reason stuff isn't saving. thankfully I've been working in the cloud and it's there but I think I'm going to start emailing it to myself too every night.

Comments

[all_choseny]

That fair sounds like it was not only adorable, but very informational! Also, you are so prolific. You are churning those books out!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. The fair was nice.

To be fair, the novella was done, I was just updating it since the last time it was rejected (I redid the ending)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Wait, what's the A in STEAM?

Congratulations on finishing your novella! \o/

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks.

A is for Arts since they're trying to keep art/music from being forced out of the curriculums

[sylvanwitch]

This is a very nice counterbalance to the facepalm effect of your nursing students and their terrifying ignorance of their own field. *grins* Here's hoping these young folks go into the sciences, if that's what they want to do, and that they bring innovations with them as they do. (Here's hoping the world is still whole enough for there to be sciences by the time these kids make it to graduate school, for that matter.)

[cornerofmadness]

It is (and yeah no kidding). A lot of them did seem to want to be scientists.