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MANVILLE: Sowing the seeds of science

By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer
   Weston School students exhibited their experiments at the annual Science Fair last week held at the school in the gym. Students from all four grades participated in the event.
   Third graders Amber Kesolitz and Emily Tarnovetchi wanted to know if food color dye will affect the color of a white carnation so they did their experiment with the carnations and vases filled with food coloring.
   ”I really like doing the science project because it was interesting and it was surprising because we didn’t know what was going to happen. My friend’s mom did this before with her kids and she said why don’t you do it and it might work,” said Amber.
   It did work and Amber learned how long it took the coloring to come to the stems and the petals to change the color of the flower. She said each of the six colors that they tried took a different amount of time. The blue and green took the least amount of time to change from a white carnation to a colored one.
   Jackie Zuza tried cleaning pennies for her experiment with different types of liquids. “When you put pennies in drinks sometimes it cleans it and sometimes it doesn’t. Lemon juice cleans it a lot but milk doesn’t,” she said.
   Kindergartener Nicholas Rindgen participated in his very first science fair. For his project, Nicholas did The Automatic Balloon Blower Upper.
   ”I blew up a balloon and I put baking soda in it. Then added vinegar and it blew up the balloon. I did it because my mom and dad told me to do it,” he said.
   Nicholas said his parents helped him with the experiment and that it was fun. He also learned the baking soda and vinegar mixed with carbon dioxide helps blow up the balloon.
   All of the experiments were judged by administrators, teachers and staff and the winners will be announced at a Student of The Month assembly.