On April 29th 2015 the grade one classes of Beaumonde Heights JMS were hosting a science fair to display their wonderful science projects on structures! The children had to construct buildings, houses, beds, bridges and lots of other structures by themselves or with the help of a parent or guardian. They had to have a purpose, so a reason why they wanted to build their structure, what materials they used, the fasteners they used to hold their structure together and was their structure stable or not.
Here are some pictures from the fun event!
All of those structures look great and stable!
8A's job was to interview two students and ask them about their structure.
1. The first grade one I talked to was a boy named Mohit. He built a beautiful bridge, it really stood out to me because of all the different colours of Popsicle sticks he used and because it has a road that looked pretty cool. Here is a picture of his structure. 
Here is what Mohit told me:
His structure is a bridge and the purpose for this is to get cars from one side to the other. He also mentioned cars can drive on both sides of the road. His mom and sister helped him and it took exactly 20 minutes to build, wow thats fast! The type of fastener he used to hold his bridge together was glue, he glued all the parts together to make it stick and not fall apart. He also said he used the coloured Popsicle sticks to make it look good and colourful, and it does. The structure is stable, to test this he had some of his cars to ride on it.
2. The second grade one I talked to was a girl named Gabby. She built a wonderful stool. I know it doesn't sound very cool but it is. I think her stool is one of the most stable structures I saw in the whole science fair! Here is a picture of her stucture. 
It was so stable some other grade ones sat and stood on it and it didn't break! 
When I interviewed her this is what she had to say:
Her stucture is a stool and the purpose for the stool is to help people reach higher places or to sit on. Her mom and dad helped her to build the project and it turned out great! The fastener that she used to hold the stool together was glue and the materials she used was I think really strong cardboard or wood I can't exactly remember what she said. But a really excellent thing she did was put triangles under the part of the stool where u had to sit. I know this really helped the structure because I'm my science class I learned that triangles are one of the most strongest shapes and I think that's why her structure was able to hold so much weight.
I really enjoyed all the projects and hope for the grade ones to have another fair so we can see some other types of awesome work they can do.
