The 2018 Maine State Science Fair (MSSF) took place on Saturday, March 24 at Thomas College in Waterville.
MSSF is open to all students from all public, private, parochial, and home schools (grades 9-12) throughout Maine and is organized by the Jackson Laboratory and the Reach Center, of the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance.
I participated as a judge in the Behavioral and Social Science Category of the Fair for the 2018 Maine State Science Fair held at Thomas College.
Participating in this event was absolutely inspiring! It is clear that the students involved in these projects have invested a huge amount of energy and time. As a judge, I only got to interview the students I had been assigned, but I got to walk around and peek at all the projects. They ranged from Physics, to Engineering to Social Sciences!
Three stellar projects that I encountered involved studying the similarity between languages using math, predicting the occurrence of depression and suicide using artificial neural networks, and the determination of right- and left-footedness in dancers!
What an amazing time and I look forward to doing it again next year. And, I look forward to recruiting more members of the KVCC Faculty to become involved!
Mark K.