Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi College of Science and Technology to host 18th Annual Coastal Bend Science Fair
Kindergarten through eighth grade students to compete for $1,000 scholarships
 
The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi College of Science and Technology will host the 18th annual Coastal Bend Science Fair from Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30 in the University Center and the Moody Sustainers Field House.
The fair is the final competition for students who have competed in science fairs in their school districts and will include kindergarten through eighth grade students from Corpus Christi and surrounding school districts. Exhibits will be broken down by grade with more than 800 students competing for ribbons and medals. An overall winner selected from kindergarten through fourth grade will receive a trophy and a $1,000 scholarship to A&M-Corpus Christi. The overall winner for fifth through eighth grades will receive the Diana I. Marinez award, which includes a trophy and a $1,000 scholarship to the University.

The students will prepare experiments relating to engineering/physical science, Earth science or life/health science utilizing the scientific method. Each student will make an oral presentation to a panel of judges to explain their experiment and findings.

“The science fair is crucial in developing students’ science skills,” said coordinator Dr. Jonda Halcomb of the University’s College of Science and Technology. “Students gain practical and hands-on experience. It’s very important for them to gain those skills beginning with the decision on the experiment and ending with communicating the results of their experimentation.”

More than 100 science and education majors from A&M-Corpus Christi and Del Mar College will help with all aspects of the fair. Judging will be done by scientists, engineers, faculty members, educators and college science students.

The schedule of events is as follows:

Friday, April 28- Registration of student projects from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the University Center and Moody Sustainers Field House.

Saturday, April 29- Judging of projects and science activities from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the University Center and Moody Sustainers Field House.

Sunday, April 30- Open house from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the University Center and Moody Sustainers Field House with the awards ceremony at 3 p.m. in the University Center.

Supporters of the Coastal Bend Science Fair include: Cheniere; Behmann Brothers Foundation; Valero; American Chemical Society; HAAS Foundation; Womack and Associates; DuPont; NACE; Entomological Society of America; Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics; Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History; Nueces County Farm Bureau; Nueces County Medical Society Alliance; and the University’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Engineering Technology Department.