Science Fair Fever - Catch It!!

Science Fair season is an exciting time on the Pershing campus. Our science classes are filled with experiments, display boards, notebooks, surveys and very busy students and teachers all working hard to make this the best Science Fair season ever. 

Each grade’s Science Fair project is a stepping stone to the next level. In 6th grade, our students are given a smaller project in order to give them a glimpse of what is needed to complete a successful project. 7th graders tackle a more extensive Science Fair curriculum that mirrors most of the requirements for the 8th grade projects. When their projects are complete, the 7th grade students present their findings in front of a teacher and their peers in a classroom setting. In 8th grade, our students take their scientific minds and their projects to a new level of responsibility by presenting their findings in front of a panel of students, parents, educators, and district and community leaders.  

After our 7th and 8th grade students choose their Science Fair topic, they research, evaluate, hypothesize, and compile scientific data through surveys, experiments, graphs, tables, etc. It is a very extensive project and requires an enormous amount of dedication and focus. Through this structured opportunity, children learn that they are capable of a higher level of rigorous thinking and work. The Science Fair is an opportunity to find oneself as a student, to identify as a critical thinker and to see oneself as having a scientific and engineering mind. 

To learn more about Pershing's Science Fair, 
please browse through the following links.

The Science Department's Main Page

2005 - 2006 Science Fair

2006 - 2007 Science Fair

2006 - 2007 Science Fair Gallery

2007 - 2008 Science Fair

Annual 8th Grade Science Fair Exhibition

Open House and Science Fair Exhibit

A Union-Tribune Article about Mr. Negus and Pershing's Science Fair

GSDSEF Schedule

Science Fair Parent Volunteers