Science Fair

No school projects dredge up my dread like the science fair, so when Reese told us he was required to present at his school's fair, I was once again thankful RD's my husband. He does the whole research thing, and enjoys it. Reese bounced ideas of RD, and RD helped him over several weeks refine his research idea, how to gather data, what kind of data to collect, how to interpret what he collected, and further application/research. Reese spent a LOT of time creating a questionnaire, getting school personnel to approve and administer the questionnaires, and enter the data collected. He rocked it, but we were pretty disappointed in some of the school staff; one blew him off several times, and blamed him for the delay, and others would just "forget" to do what they agreed to.
He did a study on the class system at his junior high, questioning 7-9th grade classes about their experience with classes/groups at school. Midway through the data entry, it looked like most kids liked the class system, but in the final analysis more kids wanted change without social classes. He's been working with his school counselor on ways to apply his research, with some idea help from RD.
There were a few hiccups (technology problems, and telling us Saturday night at 9pm he needed to turn his tri-fold display in on Monday---- and we had no tri-fold) but it all turned out ok. RD downloaded the 'cool kids' songs for him to play during his presentation, and Aubree started singing it after hearing it once. I hate that song.
Reese came home excited and anxious from his presentation, saying it'd gone really well. He found out the next day that he qualified to go to the school district science fair! He was pleased and excited, and didn't mind he got a bunch of candy as a reward too :)