Science Fair Prep

LHS students are preparing for the science fair, and on Monday after school, a current AP Biology student and two alumni assisted the students who have chosen to conduct research regarding microbiology. They partnered with the freshmen Biology and sophomore Chemistry scientists to revise their procedures and worked with them to prepare their petri dishes using aseptic technique. 
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Each year LHS students compete in the Alamo Junior Academy of Sciences and the Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair. These fairs bring in over 1,500 competitors across the Alamo region to network with like-minded peers and STEM professionals and compete for prizes and awards. Top performers in each category have the opportunity to advance to the state competition hosted at Texas A&M University. For the past four years, LHS has had top awards in the regional fairs including Grand Prize finalists and many Texas Science and Engineering Fair advancements. 

Completing a science fair project is part of our honors biology and chemistry coursework, and offers students the chance to interact with professional scientists as they present their projects.  We love passing along a passion for doing science that Mrs. Rikard and Mr. Schuetze possess and  hope to foster in their students.

Presenting a real world project to be evaluated by an external expert is the kind of authentic learning that helps develop agency in students to do science of their own choosing and develop knowledge and skills related to presenting and defending the results and findings of their STEM project to panels of experts within the field of their project.