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Dear Parents.

Your child will be taking part in this year’s AISF science fair program. As a participant, s (he) will get to show off her (his) work and possibly receive high grades and prizes. But most importantly they will also learn a lot about science by observing and sharing with other fair participants.

Solving a scientific mystery, like solving a detective mystery, requires planning and the careful collection of facts. Trying to assemble a project overnight may result in frustration and cheats you out of the fun on being a science detective. With a little planning and assistance from you, though, your child’s science fair experience can be positive and rewarding.

These days education seems like a global crisis; everyone complaint about it. “Can’t read, can’t multiply, can’t function” seem to be the common gripes. We believe that if any of these critics visit our science fair, they will be forced to reconsider their opinions.
Science projects call upon students from grade 3 to grade 8 to integrate many facets of their talents, abilities and acquired knowledge.

Projects exhibited at the science fair require students to do research and conduct experiments in order to prove a hypothesis, when finished, the students will be require to set up their displays and orally present their reports to a panel of external judges.

Although valuable and rewarding, a science projects requires a major commitment of time and effort. Preparation often involves the crucial first step, the selection of a topic appropriate to the interests and abilities of the students, to the construction of the display at the project’s conclusion.
Parents are essential to the success of a project, especially for a first timer.

We encourage our students to work independently. Working on their own is one of the most important benefits of doing a project. Although they will have help from teachers, parents and other resources, the projects will be entirely their responsibility. They will do the planning and scheduling as well as executing the research and experiment. Although they will use many of the procedures and techniques that they have learned from the science classes, they will have the freedom to set their own pace to meet the deadline date of March 17, 2010.

Edward Gembeh, Science teacher