CREST Club
Alex Down and Morven Pearce Year 10
We have both taken part in ‘CREST’ club, which is a project that many young people take part in across the UK. It involves having to plan, perform, and evaluate a science experiment of your choice, with a topic that had to be centred around one of the ‘STEM’ subjects. There was a wide range of topics that were chosen, including questions about music, food, and cleaning. Alex and her partner did an experiment on ‘Does the music genre you listen to have an affect on your health’ The practical element of our experiment involved playing a plethora of different music genres to a wide group of people to see whether what they were listening to had an effect on their heart rate. This had some interesting results, however it was as we expected. The music that tended to make people have the highest heart rate was ‘EDM’ because it was very high energy. The one that made people have the lowest heart rate was ‘Classical’ music which was also expected because the songs we chose were very calming. Morven and Evie explored ‘What dish soap product has the best reaction when in contact with a fat based liquid?’. We did this by placing drops of food colouring in certain fatty liquids and then measured the distance they travelled when they were repelled by the liquid soaps. We found many interesting things and were able to work out that some own brand soaps worked more effectively than specialised
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