Hauppauge School District is pleased to announce that Hannah Fioramonti and Grant Faber were first place winners at the 2014 Brookhaven National Laboratory Elementary Science Fair.
Hannah Fioramonti is a fifth grade student at Pines Elementary School. Her science fair project, titled “Hot and Cold Melodies,” tested how temperature affected the intonation of an orchestra’s pitch. Fioramonti placed orchestral instruments in rooms at different temperatures and noted how the pitch was affected. She discovered that temperature affected each instrument differently. This is the third time that Fioramonti won first place at the BNL Elementary Science Fair, and she notably is the only female to ever win first place three times. She previously won first place while in second and third grades.
Grant Faber, a third grade student at Forest Brook Elementary School, also won first place in the third grade division at the BNL Elementary Science Fair. His project “Practice, Practice, Practice” tested the age-old adage “Practice Makes Perfect.” Faber tested how daily practice of five minutes a day affected both academics and athletics. He measured how practice affected the amount of time required to complete multiplication and division problems. He also measured how practice affected the number of times he could dribble a basketball between his legs, and the number of times he could throw and catch a lacrosse ball – catching with his left and throwing with his right, and then catching with his right and throwing with his left. Faber discovered that practice decreased the amount of time it took to complete the math problems and increased the number of consecutive basketball dribbles and lacrosse throws and catches he could complete.
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Matthew Dolce and Brendan Graf received Honorable Mention awards at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Elementary Science Fair. Graf is a first grade student at Pines Elementary School. His research project was titled “Hang Up and Drive.” Dolce, a fourth grade student at Bretton Woods Elementary School, won an Honorable Mention for his project “Memory Color Wars.”
More than 500 science projects from 120 Suffolk County schools were entered in the 2014 Elementary School Science Fair. BNL scientists, engineers, and technical staff as well as volunteers from the Long Island Matrix of Science and Technology and teachers from local elementary schools judged the projects.
