Hawkes Bay Science Fair

Karamu High School continued its tradition of record number of entries for the Hawke’s Bay Science Fair, with over 50 students this year competing in a range of science related competitions. The Seriously Fun Science Quiz involves a team of three students answering eight rounds of science related questions. This event is hosted at Karamu by the Science Faculty. EIT host three of the competitions, the Technology Challenge which is a hands-on competition where students work as a team using simple materials to solve problems; the Titration Challenge, which is a senior competition where students put their quantitative chemistry skills learnt in the classroom in to practice identifying a mystery substance; and the pinnacle event is the Project Section where the goal is for students to answer a question based on a hypothesis by using the scientific method. This work is mostly completed outside the classroom over several weeks. Our greatest success came in the project section where we had 17 winners including Lexi Trotter, Year 12, taking the Best Senior Project and Best Application of Scientific Method. Other Outstanding Project winners were Lena Ormsby, Charlotte and Megan Orr from Year 9, and Paige Flashoff, Keelan Heesterman and Kade Lindsay from Year 11. Congratulations to all our winners and we look forward to another successful year in 2020.