Fifteen projects from McKinley High School were chosen to represent the Honolulu District in the 55th Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair that was held at the Hawaii Convention Center from April 2 to 4. The chosen student projects were from the biology, physics, and chemistry classes here at McKinley.

These projects were chosen at the Honolulu District Science fair which was held on February 14 at Kapiolani Community College. “The science fair is to gauge the students’€™ curiosity in science. They could use that curiosity and turn it into their own findings,” said Channing-Marie Llaneza-Dominguez, biology teacher and MHS science fair coordinator.

She added, the greater you participate in these fairs, the greater the chances you are to get scholarships for college.

“In the past years, the science projects that were chosen in our school’s science fair went directly to compete in the years that the Honolulu district had arranged for a District science fair,” said Harolyne Grant, physical science teacher and co-coordinator of MHS science fair.

From the McKinley Science Fair, the chosen projects from students proceeded to the District Science Fair. During the District Science Fair, only Farrington High School and McKinley competed.

“The judges in the district science fair had chosen 20 projects from the participants. There are 15 projects from MHS that are chosen to advance to the states,”€ said Jossefin Rasay, physics teacher.

Rasay said she helped her students in their science fair projects from the beginning, from the topic selection until the students did their experimentation. April 2 was the day when the students had set up the display for their exhibits in the venue. April 3 was the Judging Day and on the 4, was the opening of the exhibits to the public and the awards ceremony.