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Students show off their science fair projects near Pierce Hall. Samuelle Levy (left) and Tia Malan, both from Fletcher Maynard Academy, speak with Cambridge City Councilor Sam Seidel (right). (Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer.)
They created robotic insects, exploding Coke bottles, and a mini, mock Mars rover. They explored the boiling point of water, what colors absorb the most heat, and how a plant reacts to being watered with soda, milk, and just plain old H2O.
Four hundred eighth-graders from Cambridge Public Schools descended on Harvard on Thursday (May 5) to showcase their science and engineering projects as part of a citywide science festival, an annual spring event that highlights Cambridge as a leader in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Throughout the day, the 13- and 14-year-olds explained their experiments and inventions, displayed under a tent beside Pierce Hall, to the Harvard community, including Harvard graduates, undergraduates, and members of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The students also toured campus.
“It was a really good learning experience to have a hands-on … experiment, learning what engineers actually have to go through to create some of the buildings we use,” said Sydney Fisher, a student at the Kennedy-Longfellow School.
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