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This is our final blog post of the year, so thank you for following us along this incredible journey! So long and thank you for your support!
[Fair]well...
[Fair]well...
We walked into the gym, excited the hours to come. Why? It was science fair day! The day went very well, it was so rewarding to share our research with everyone! We had practiced for hours on end, and it was amazing to see results. All of our work culminated into the following Saturday: awards night. We waited with bated breath as the results of our division, Animal Sciences, were announced. We won 2nd place in our category, and we're moving forward to state science fair in April! It was such an incredible experience and networking opportunity! Now, we are moving onto state science fair and presenting at Colorado-Wyoming Junior Academy of Science (CWJAS).
Anna and Olivia show off their second place award from the Denver Metro Regional Science Fair.
Auf Wiedersehen Fruit Flies
Auf Wiedersehen Fruit Flies
Olivia and classmates Camryn and Shelby celebrate success at science fair with cake!
Anna and Olivia with their classmates at the Denver Metro Regional Science fair presentation day.
This past year has been a whirlwind of stress and joy. It was difficult to adjust to the life of parenthood, but we learned to love our flies. From dried media to apple cider vinegar, it was great to work with the best model organisms! We will also miss our incredible classmates! The experiences we had in this class, both professional and personal, made us grow and thrive at school. We are so grateful for these experiences, and for you all, because you have followed us along this journey!
Adieu...
Adieu...
We wanted to give insight into our team, so we decided to give you a reflection of our time in research!
- Strengths: Throughout this experience we have worked and competed together as one strong unit. One of our biggest strengths would be our great communication and teamwork skills!
- Weakness: The both of us struggle with perfectionism, trying to make everything from our poster to our blog posts exactly how we envision. This can often times be time consuming, which makes this one of our weaknesses.
- Setback: For us, this year has been full of setbacks, minor and major, but each one of these has taught us perseverance and helped us move forward with our project. One of our biggest setbacks was determining how to quantify data we collected from our fruit fly films. We tried changing our method of tracking the flies, adapting the data we pulled from the footage, and altering the statistical test utilized. There were many efforts, and multiple people tried advising us, but nothing quite displayed the wall following behavior like we pictured it. Finally, after a video chat with our mentors, we were able to determine a way to record the fruit fly movement and quantifying it using a t-test and a z-test.
- Experiences Gained: We have both gained so much from this class from lab techniques, communication, writing, and so much more. We've become experts on taking care of fruit flies and making their media (in fact we both know the recipe by heart!), and using an incubator. In addition, presenting our research to an audience with a variety of backgrounds was a learning curve for us, but this class has definitely shown us how share our project to scientists and our parents at the same time! Lastly, our scientific writing skills have grown immensely, as writing our research paper has taught us a lot about communicating our research in writing.
We Hate to Go...
We Hate to Go...
Olivia and Anna at the science fair awards with their whole class and teacher, Mrs. Petri.
This whole research experience would not have been possible without the help of so many wonderful and helpful people. We'd like to thank our mentors, Laura George and Brenna Dennison, for their advise and expertise, we could always turn to them with our problems and they always had a solution! We'd like to thank our parents for supporting us by going to science fair, project pitch, and everything in between. In addition, the class experimental design wouldn't even exist without Mrs. Petri and Mrs. Fordham, who make us better scientists and people every day by supporting us in and out of the classroom. We'd also like to thank Mr. Winkleman for making our blog posts better and better. Lastly, we'd like to thank our classmates who have always been there to offer help and brighten our days!
Song "So Long, Farewell" by The Sound of Music. Video uploaded by cdilarablove.
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