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Students Explore the World of Science

Students explored a world of science during Lower School Science Week. Complete with a Bubble Assembly, a Motion and Machines Assembly, a Science Fair, and a Bubble Festival, events began on May 9th and ended May 12th.

Beginning Monday morning, students Beginners through grade two got into “Bubble Trouble” during an assembly hosted by the Bubble Guy, Jeff Boyer, in RSPA Panther Hall. Aside from learning how bubbles are made, why they are the shape that they are, and how they get their rainbow color, some children also had the opportunity to play with bubbles on stage. While Molly Maloney ’24 and Bianca Warren ’25 helped make bubbles, and Samantha Jackman ’21 and Emerson Glazer ’21 held “extraordinary bubbles” filled with a foggy substance, the assembly ended with Starlette Dettro ’24, who actually went inside of a bubble!

Complements of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, third through fifth graders enjoyed an engaging assembly on Motion and Machines on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. During the hour-long event, which explained friction, Newton’s laws and machines, student-volunteers also experimented with the law of gravity and witnessed the construction of a hovercraft on stage.

Science Week continued with a fourth and fifth grade Lower School Science Fair on Thursday, May 12 in RSPA Panther Hall. Presenting inventions and testing hypotheses, the fair included Jack Torpey’s ’18 Cat Feeder 9,000 — similar to the Milton Bradley board game “Mouse Trap,” a Dogbrella, created by fifth grader Jari Walzog, and the introduction of a swim goggle wireless camera known as The COACH, designed by Laura Lehrfeld ’18. Although in the past the Science Fair also included projects from students Beginners through grade two, this year instead welcomed the introduction of “Bubble Festival.”

With help from parent-volunteers, students participated in classroom activities using dish soap to explore the compound known as water and effects of surface tension. Homeroom teachers then ended each session with an extended activity on bubbles — whether it be making a prediction or writing a poem about what students learned.

A perfect way to top-off Lower School Science Week, 16 students — grades four and five — competed in a Science Olympiad competition at Moorestown Friends School on Saturday, May 14, 2011. The Lower School’s third year competing in Science Olympiad, the 2011 team placed in every category of participation! Up against 13 other schools, Ranney saw notable performances from Cameron Centrella '19 and Aaryan Raval '19, who placed second in the "Mystery Architecture" category, and Joseph Strizhak '19 with Meilina Amaral '18 as they also placed second — this time in the "Tennis Ball Catapult" category.

Other team rankings were as follows:
6th place     "Bottle Music" Jari Walzog '18, Sathya Edamadaka '19 & Amanda Serrapica '18
6th place "Chopper Challenge"     Varun Sikand '18 & Luke Denver-Moore '19
6th place "Food for Thought" Abigail Granata '18 & Taylor Rice '19
6th place "Grasp a Graph" Paul Cantave '19
6th place "No Bones About It" Jacqueline Erler '18 & Jack Crilly '19
5th place "Straw Egg Drop" Amanda Serrapica '18 & Aaryan Raval '19
5th place "Which Way is North" Raza Zaida '19 & Sathya Edamadaka '19 
6th place "Write It Do It" Jacqueline Erler '18 & Abigail Granata '18
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