Deer K-12 School issued the following announcement on May 13.
Sawyer Cross 3rd Grade won OUR CO-OP Regional Engineering Specialty Award and a $10.00 certificate. Sawyer was the only third-grade student to compete in the Regional Science Fair and competed in the 4th-6th grade band. 4th Grade Team Members Eli Smith & Elijah Parks won OUR CO-OP Regional Engineering Friendship Team Building Specialty Award. Team members Kason Keenom 4th grade & Audie Robbins 5th grade, competed in the 5th Grade OUR CO-OP Engineering Team and won 1st place OUR CO-OP K-6 Regional Science Fair Team.
Mr. Smith's science students also participated in the 3rd-6th grade engineering activities at the OUR CO-OP and built catapults with limited resources. Students were given 3 tasks to complete with only 3 tries at each. 1). Building a functioning catapult that could fire a projectile 2). Fire their catapult at a known distance and hit the target 3). Fire their catapult at an unknown distance and hit the target. Students who were able to achieve this were given stamps for recognition. All of Mr. Smith's students completed tasks 1 and 2 and students Eli Smith, Kason Keenom, and Jonathan Navas completed all 3 engineering tasks successfully. After the science fair, Mr. Smith and his students celebrated with pizza and ice cream, for a job well done representing our school and district.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Deer K-12 School
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