SYCAMORE REPORTS MAY 2011 ISSUE BLUE ASH DIVISION Contributing Writers and Experimenters: Arushi Sharma Ashwin Prabhakar Ben Margolis Nathan Hatridge Sekani Cole Sydney McKinney Taryn Wedige Julien
Additional Experimenters: Weldon Julien
MAPLE DALE DIVISION Contributing Writers and Experimenters: Cora Merrow Norah Pack Matthew Rines Elliot Sweeney Kaelyn Ziegler James Zinnbauer Additional Experimenters: MONTGOMERY DIVISION Contributing Writers and Experimenters: Emma Allen Elianah Cohen Emma Cohen Liam Fleck Nathan Frankowski Maya Oduyoye George Vlady Allison Zimmermann Additional Experimenters:
SYMMES DIVISION Contributing Writers and Experimenters: Nick Bruggeman Kennedy Graves Isabel Henry Sten Lu Sebastian Salas Albaraa Tarabishi Additional Experimenters: Jonel Paguigan Zoe Lewis
strength. All three are available at Kroger (although you could find other bags at Costco and Wal-Mart). Test description
First, we blew up a bag with air. Next we balanced weights on it. If it held the air, we would put up to 60 pounds more weight on top of it. If it still held the air, a weighed tester would stand on it until it popped. Recommendations
The Storage Bag Wars How strong do you think storage bags are?
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Overview
t lunch one day, If you went to the store, you Maya Oduyoye would see different brands of had a ziploc bags. big bag But you of juicy The strawberry wouldn’t strawberries. When juice splattered know which is she put the the best. The everywhere! strawberries on the Sycamore table, she Reports accidently put her elbow on testing team tested three the bag. Then the bag popped different brands of ziploc and strawberry juice bags. They are Hefty, Ziploc, splattered everywhere. and Kroger. We tested their Everybody laughed at her . She even laughed at herself. Then her friends helped her clean the strawberry juice up. It was a really fun day at lunch. But this got Maya thinking “What IS the best ziploc bag?”.
We believe your decision in which bag to buy comes down to how much money you have and how much each bag needs to hold. The Hefty storage bags cost the most money but are the strongest. If you need the strongest bag, we recommend buying Hefty bags because they have more strength than the other bags. If you need the cheapest bag we recommend the Kroger bags. If you have enough money and can afford Hefty bags, they would be the best idea. If you want NOT the most expensive bags, but still good ones, then we recommend Ziploc bags.
never had to feel rough toilet paper again Overview
We tested toilet paper. You can get toilet paper at Costco, Kroger, Target, Walmart, Walgreens or order it online. There are many Testing toilet paper for different softness kinds of toilet paper. There is Charmin, Kroger, Angelsoft, Quilted here once was a Northern, Cottonelle, little girl named Trader Joe’s, Marcal and Norah. She went White Cloud. to the The Sycamore airport. She She says she will Reports testing went to the team chose bathroom, then never go there Angelsoft, she felt the toilet again! Charmin and paper. It was Kroger to test. rough, rough, rough! She says she will never go there Test description again! Norah started We grabbed 3 different wondering what toilet paper was soft (she wished that was what everybody had, medium, rough, and very rough (which she wished nobody had). Norah wished she
Attack of the Toilet Paper
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toilet papers and one blindfold. We put the blindfold on the tester. We handed the toilet paper to the tester. The tester rubbed it on their cheek. The tester gave the 3 toilet papers a rating 1, 2 or 3. We recorded the results . Test result
We could clearly see that Charmin won in first place. Angelsoft came in second. Finally, Kroger came in third. Recommendations
Kroger is the best because it’s cheap and it’s almost as good as Angelsoft on softness. Charmin is expensive but great on softness. Angelsoft is okay on the price but a little better on softness than Kroger. We all would prefer a soft toilet paper. But because Charmin is the most expensive, we’d have to recommend Kroger or Angelsoft (unless you want really soft toilet paper).
stores now, there are many kinds of garbage bags. But our team only tested Envirobag, Glad, and Kroger. Test description
The Sycamore Reports testing team got partners. The testers tested 3 brands of trash bags. They were Kroger, Glad, and Envirobags. They put weights in the bags and lifted the bags. We recorded how much weight they could take.
Garbage bag explosion! See how strong your garbage bag is
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thought “Yuck! I wish we had stronger bags.”
enjamin Margolis, a 2nd graders at Overview Blue Ash The “I wish we had Elementary, was Sycamore stronger bags.” taking out the trash Reports from the kitchen. team had He had to walk 20 yards to tested garbage bags. In the trash cans in the garage. But, Ben slipped and out flew old toys, air hockey pucks, and smelly banana peels. The scent was strong! Ben
Recommendations
If you want to pay less AND use a good garbage bag, you would want to buy Envirobags because they are inexpensive and strong. If you want the best garbage bag, that works really well try Glad bags because they are the strongest bag we tested. You’d probably get Kroger bags if you just want to buy bags really fast and leave!
used water, food coloring, and cups. We put yellow food coloring in a bucket of water to make it look you just went to the bathroom. We poured 3 ounces of water in each diaper and waited to see how long it would take until you could see the water dripping out the diaper. We recorded our observations and the amount of water on a sheet of paper. Test result
Diapers for sale How much p** do they hold? brands are available at lbaraa Tarabishi, stores in the diaper section a second grader The Sycamore reports at Symmes testing team chose Element Huggies, ary, has a baby Pampers, sister. One The next morning, and Kroger. morning, his the diaper was mother did not leaking Test description change the baby’s We had three different diaper because the baby diaper brand. The team was sleeping. The next morning, the diaper was leaking because there was too much liquid in it. That got Albaraa thinking “Which diaper holds the most liquid?”.
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Right now, Huggies, Krogers, Pampers, Kirkland, Luvs and other
Huggies held the most. It held 19. 5 ounces of water. Pampers held the second most with 16.5 and Kroger brand held the least amount of water. It held 15 ounces. Recommendations
Pampers cost the most. The second most expensive is Huggies and the Kroger diapers cost the third most. We recommend Huggies because it holds the most liquid and it’s NOT the most expensive. .
Credits BLUE ASH DIVISION Arushi Sharma Ashwin Prabhakar Ben Margolis Nathan Hatridge Sekani Cole Sydney McKinney Taryn Wedige Weldon Julien MAPLE DALE DIVISION Cora Merrow Norah Pack Matthew Rines Elliot Sweeney Kaelyn Ziegler James Zinnbauer
MONTGOMERY DIVISION Emma Allen Elianah Cohen Emma Cohen Liam Fleck Nathan Frankowski Maya Oduyoye George Vlady Allison Zimmermann
SYMMES DIVISION Nick Bruggeman Kennedy Graves Isabel Henry Zoe Lewis Sten Lu Jonel Paguigan Sebastian Salas Albaraa Tarabishi
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