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By Bill Van Tassel
GRAY — Gray-New Gloucester schools held their annual science fairs March 7. The district-wide event featured all levels of projects from the high and middle schools, Memorial School, and Dunn and Russell schools. Certificates were awarded to all participants, and a raffle was held with science-themed prizes for individuals at each grade level.
All the projects were set up in the Gray-New Gloucester High School gymnasium.
Seventh-grader Caleb Collins designed a robotic wolf-dummy seated behind a keyboard who appeared to be playing music. Collins had taken the circuit boards from the inside of three old, musical toys and re-wired them somehow that when his wolf-man — “Dave” — moved his fingers, the songs played.
The students’ projects ranged from a simple comparison (by a second grader) of the strength of tape verses the strength of Elmer’s Glue and balloon-powered Lego cars to the finer points of water pollution and the workings and dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping. Just a few of the other projects — fictional superheroes who studied problems like pollution and had powers to help clean it up; the science behind yeast; the solar system and more.
