Outside the Box – Christy Johnson
The Renascence School International Panama City campus Science Fair which was held on Dec. 16th, was the first Mandarin Chinese and English dual language science fair in the state of Florida. Three students scored high enough at this fair to move on to compete at the Bay County Three Rivers Science and Engineering Fair at the Florida State University, Panama City campus on Tuesday, Jan 24th to compete against other students from all of Bay County.
Excitement was in the air and there were a lot of interesting projects on display. The three Renascence School International students that competed there are all in a language immersion program at the school in which they are learning science in Mandarin Chinese through their science teacher Ms. Xiao.
Katherine Kozan, with her project on ball weight overcoming air resistance”, placed second in Physics and Astronomy and will be an alternate for the Florida State competition if someone is unable to attend. Vicky Wu placed first in botany with her project on the affect of different colored light on plants. Amelia Talkington also placed first with her research on how genetic modification changes corn in the biochemistry category. Both Vicky and Amelia will be moving on to the Florida State competition on April 3rd – 5th in Lakeland, Florida. What an accomplishment!
