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THE WAC FOUNDATION
INVITATIONAL SCIENCE FAIR
The Research Association welcomes its new named
sponsor the WAC Lighting Foundation of Garden City, New York. The WAC Lighting
Foundation is committed to student enrichment and seeks through its ventures to
support and inspire students. The WAC Foundation has agreed to sponsor our fair
for the next five years. Their funding will allow us to once again provide
scholarship awards to first, second and third place winners in this year’s fair
to be held at Commack High School, in Suffolk County, Long Island.
The Research Association is a consortium of ten schools’ research
teachers dedicated to the importance of science as a verb. Learning in science
is the result of doing science, rather than being lectured to. Three hundred
students from ten different schools have come together each year for the past
ten years to present their research experience to esteemed judges from
Universities and Hospitals across Long Island and New York City. The symposium
provides students with a goal as they spend many months completing their
research in preparation for the fair. The projects are as varied as the
students. Younger students may study the effects of temperature on cricket
sounds while older students may have spent months or years in University labs
exploring for answers to cancer or inexpensive ways to produce fuel
alternatives. Everything under the sun seems open to exploration; from Astronomy
to Nanotechnology, from practical to theoretical. But while the topics covered
are varied one aspect of the fair remains constant, the importance of this
activity in the development of tomorrow's leaders. The teachers of the Research
Association are delighted to provide this opportunity to students each year.
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