Science Fair Cont.

Science Fair Cont.

I am not too skilled at the blogging stuff so I should have put this post first but if your reading this post scroll down and start at the first science fair post and then read this one.

So a few nights before the school science fair we were far from being done and we were finding it very difficult to accomplish both girls' science fair projects.  Maddie, her dad and I decided that she would postpone entering the science fair for next year.  However after an hour or so we all felt terrible and decided to carry on.  We worked all night but made major headway and saw a light at the end of a tunnel.  As it turns out it is a good thing we did not quit because ......

Maddie won 1st place for 5th grade and BEST OVERALL!! 

Naomi won best use of confection (we think she got robbed) :)

Just when we thought it was over we found out she was invited to go to the district/regional science fair.  There she won 2nd place along with best use of water and mathematics.  This win sent her to the state science fair.

We had little hope that she would win, we were hopeful though for a honorable mention.  When we arrived for the awards ceremony we saw this big purple ribbon on her board.  This meant she had won something but we did not know what.  

Turns out she won 1st place in state!!!  We are so proud of her!  What a great lesson on never giving up!  I know many of you are thinking with a family of scientist this is no surprise.  Your probably thinking one of them came up with this winning project idea and her Dad must have helped her!  Well, your wrong!!!  Maddie and I came up with this idea and after one day of Dad trying to explain the viscosity formula and Maddie giving me that "Help Me" look I use to give my own mother I jumped in and her and I worked together until we both figured it out!  Who would have thought her first year she would take it all the way!