Science Fair

Ruth's school science fair was this week.  We spent six hours the day before doing her board. She had finished the journal several days before thanks to a great deal of nagging from her mother.  Because science fair is totally voluntary at her school there were only around 50 entries (her school has 1200 enrolled).  Because the school can send an amount to districts based on its size about half of the kids who entered won a 1st place ribbon.  Not to discount Ruth's project, I think it was one of the best ones there - but I'm not biased or anything.  Ruth will go on to districts in two weeks (the same night as her final Cinderella rehearsal before opening night).

Here project was about music and campaign commercials.  She was surprised to learn in her research that a huge percentage of positive campaign commercials, like around 90%, used inspirational type music, not patriotic music, like one might suspect.  In fact, almost no commercials used patriotic music.   Her pole of 21 people showed the same result, the commercial in the inspirational music lead in every category.  Think of that next time you see an add. Her commercials are still posted on YouTube if you are interested in seeing them (but the survey has been taken down). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_iiGxN3L4