OLMatters - The School Paper
Capturing Memories for the Future
Vol XI
Aug 2015 - June 2016
Photos by Teo Cores (' 19)
The Science Fair 2016 was a blast!
This year, the theme was "A Drop of Life" and made us reflect on the importance of water conservation.
Middle school students presented 20 projects in their subject areas: Living Things (6th grade), Earth Science (7th grade) and Human Body (8th grade). Students were very successful in developing all steps of the Scientific Method and communicating their results brilliantly. Hard teamwork and commitment were the key elements! I could not be prouder of my students, who provided such a rewarding experience to our school community. Visitors interacted by resisting to freezing waters inside a "whale blubber", finding animals blended in their habitats, discussing about factors that led to the water crisis of 2014-2015 in Brazil, witnessing water erosion, desalinating ocean waters and filtrating polluted ones, preparing homemade mosquito traps to prevent Aedes aegypti fevers, being "infected" by an "epidemics", testing their lung capacity and many other cool challenges.
Hard decision it is to award the winner project.
Check it out on April 28!
Dr. Carla Mendes
MS Science Teacher
This year's Science Fair was pretty fun. Although it was extremely hot, people really enjoy it. It was amazing to see how many cool and different experiments people can do with such a simple topic, as water. Paloma Coelho- 8B
This year's topic was about water, so important and relevant nowadays. It was really interesting to see what students came up with. I believe everybody enjoyed it as the projects were really cool. We worked hard on them!- Marina 8A
The Science Fair was an experience no one will ever forget. There were many interesting projects, and I learned a lot from them- Sofia Feinstein 7B
This Saturday was my first Science Fair, and it was a really interesting experience. I did not expect to see so many cool and intelligent projects the way I did. I really loved doing my experience (Pacific Plastic Soup) as well as seeing others- Maria Fernanda Nazar 7A
The Science Fair was awesome! It was my first time and I will never forget it. I loved the experiment about epidemics- Pedro Monteiro 6B
The Science Fair this year was very interesting. There were stands which were always crowded but others not so much. I think the Science Fair is an important learning method for kids and adults.- Sthefany Morris 6A