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    Strong Science Program at Ferrahian Secures Wins at Science Fair

    asbarez
    Friday, June 3rd, 2011

    A scene from the Ferrahian Science Fair

    ENCINO - Science Fair is a well established school-wide extracurricular
    activity here at Holy Martyrs Marie Cabayan Elementary and Ferrahian
    High School. All middle school and high school students who are
    enrolled in a science class participate in this highly educational and
    rewarding extracurricular activity.

    This year Ferrahian High School's Science Fair was held on Friday,
    March 10, 2011. The project boards were displayed in the school's
    gymnasium and were judged by engineers and scientists from the
    Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America (AESA), and other
    volunteers. The judges had to choose the winning projects from amongst
    43 middle school and 70 high school science projects. Winners were
    chosen from each grade level, in addition to, an overall winner from
    middle school and high school levels.

    Students with winning projects had an opportunity to participate in
    the Armenian Science Olympiad sponsored by the AESA on April 10, 2011
    and later in the Los Angeles County Science Fair on April 15, 2011 and
    further down the line in statewide competition. The following
    summarizes the exceptional record of our school:

    Armenian Science Olympiad: Six winners out of sixteen participants
    Los Angeles County Science Fair: Eight winners out of ten participants
    Los Angeles County Science Fair: Two selected projects from the County
    Fair participants.
    These gains are a reflection of the school's solid science program.
    The Science curriculum at Ferrahian besides the California State
    Standards includes two remedial courses each on 9th and 10th grade
    levels and four honor courses: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics
    and AP Environmental Science. Thus, the school reaches out to all
    students on different academic performance levels.

    The school participated in the Armenian Science Olympiad by entering
    16 high school and middle school projects. Our students had a number
    of wins as follows:

    12th grade individual project - Maretta Oganesyan second place;
    12th grade group project Anush Ginosyan and Shaunt Kevork - 2nd place;
    10th grade group project Karina Khadarian and Varak Armoudikian
    -Honorable mention;
    10th grade group project Shaunt Anserelian, Raffi Kurbessoian, Anto
    Shahmelikian - Honorable mention;
    10th grade group project Shushan Ginosyan and Katrine Minassian -
    Honorable mention;
    6th grade individual project Renee Melkonian- Honorable mention.
    Ferrahian students also participated at the Los Angeles County Science
    Fair where over 850 projects representing 1000 students were
    registered to participate. Our school entered ten projects and eight
    of those were winning projects and two were selected to compete at the
    California State Science Fair. The following is a list of this year's
    LA County winning projects:

    3rd place winner 12th grade AP Environmental Science student Maretta
    Oganesyan project titled: `Removing lead ions from water using
    magnetic particles.' - Project selected to compete at the California
    State Science Fair.
    Honorable mention winners, 12th grade AP Physics students Anush
    Ginosyan and Shaunt Kevork project titled: `Removing nitrates from
    water using a redox reaction.' - Project selected to compete at the
    California State Science Fair.

    Honorable mention winners 12th grade AP Physics students Natalie
    Shahbol and Nyrie Dikijian project titled: `Floating animals, oil, and
    dispersants ... Oh My`

    Two Special Awards winner 11th grade AP Chemistry student Arev
    Hovsepian project titled: `Combating acid rain in soil.'

    Honorable mention winners 10th grade AP Biology students Shushan
    Ginosyan and Katrine Minassian project titled:'Does Grandma's soup
    kill E. Coli?'
    Honorable mention winner 10th grade AP Biology student Garni Terterian
    project titled:' Measuring the specific heat of water and other
    liquids using a homemade calorimeter with resistive wire heating.'
    Honorable mention winners 7th grade Vagarshak Avetisyan and Aren
    Kurkjian project titled:'Effect of light, salt, temperature, and
    sodium bicarbonate on water plant oxygen levels.'
    Honorable mention winners 6th grade Shant Arslanian and Nareg
    Kuyumjian project titled:'Biomass energy.'
    The purpose of the Science Fair is twofold. Its primary objective is
    to teach the students how to plan, design, execute, and complete a
    science project with limited assistance from teachers and parents, and
    secondarily to provide an opportunity for students to apply and to
    bring to life the scientific method which is much discussed in their
    science classes. Additionally, the Science Fair program embodies
    several of our school's Expected School-wide Learning Results; briefly
    stated, to graduate students who are critical thinkers and problem
    solvers, to graduate students who are life-long learners, to graduate
    students who are effective communicators and responsible citizens.




    From: A. Papazian
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