{"id":13854,"date":"2023-03-02T08:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:40:09","slug":"elizabethtown-college-students-serve-as-judges-for-junior-high-science-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/elizabethtown-college-students-serve-as-judges-for-junior-high-science-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Students Serve as Judges for Junior High Science Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College A. C. Baugher Professor of Chemistry <\/span>James MacKay<\/span><\/a> and a group of nine Blue Jay students recently served as judges for a junior high science fair, held for a local homeschool community. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe organizers were really pleased with our Etown students,\u201d MacKay said. \u201cThey commented on their professionalism, enthusiasm, and the encouraging input they gave the junior high students.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Etown student Alexa Scheetz ’25 interacting with a participant of junior high science fair<\/p><\/div>\n

The event was held at St. Paul\u2019s United Methodist Church in Etown for homeschooled junior high students of the Harrisburg area, which was hosted by <\/span>Classical Conversations<\/span><\/a>, an international classical Christian homeschool organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Classical Conversations curriculum includes a science fair for students at the 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> grade level called, \u201cChallenge A,\u201d which is held each year. This year, nine Etown students across three disciplines volunteered for the opportunity to judge at the event and work with the students. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw our Etown students asking great questions, showing a ton of interest, and being the type of student that I\u2019m proud of as an educator,\u201d MacKay said. \u201cThe fact that they gave up their weekend to volunteer for this event speaks to the passion they have for our College\u2019s motto of \u2018Educate For Service.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For this year\u2019s fair, 17 junior high students came from the Elizabethtown and Mechanicsburg communities to present their projects. The student\u2019s work ranged from subjects in chemistry, physics, food science, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was truly impressed by the care, effort, and work these junior high-level students displayed for their presentations,\u201d Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) major Kaylynn Leap \u201923 said. \u201cThey were all excited to talk about science and I hope I was able to share my love for science back. The world always needs more scientists, and I am confident these students will rise to the occasion with splendor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It was a pleasure to connect with the local community to inspire and be inspired by the young scientists of tomorrow,\u201d BMB major Tristan Mabee \u201924 exclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College A. C. Baugher Professor of Chemistry James MacKay and a group of nine Blue Jay students recently served as judges for a junior high science fair, held for a local homeschool community. \u201cThe organizers were really pleased with our Etown students,\u201d MacKay said. \u201cThey commented on their professionalism, enthusiasm, and the encouraging input […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":13855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,7],"tags":[1140,233,1123,197,1350],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus-community","tag-academic","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13864,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/13864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}