By ALEX KANGETHE
Room 210 Staff Writer
The 8th grade winners for this year's science fair project were Sarah Kessler and Bayley Strella, both of Mr. Wallace's class.
Sarah Kessler's experiment was about the refraction of water with and without sugar. " First, I mixed up several water/sugar solutions and then I measured the differences of the index of refraction when a laser light was shone through a prism holding the solutions. I discovered that the more sugar there is dissolved in a liquid, the more the light refracts," Sarah said.
Sarah thought of this idea from an online site and her love for science, she said. Her favorite branch of science is physics. Sarah said, " No matter how complicated your science fair experiment is, you can always ace your project because it's all about presentation in a very scientific way.
Bayley Strella's experiment was about what diet affects earthworms' growth. It was eggshells and coffee grounds. She found the idea for this in a book. The experiment took about five weeks and she did so by taking a clear container and putting it next to a glass door so that they could receive sunlight.
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