Students Use Phones, Games in Science Fair Experiments

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Added [Spencer Arbuckle]: "If we could do it again, we'd space it out a bit more, because on the second day, people might have been tired from the last time they wrote the test... but we did learn that playing four hours of video games isn't fun."

"What I see happening is more attention being paid to environmental issues. And human health has really increased in the number of submissions," said Alex Salki, research biologist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, who's been a judge at the symposium for the last 15 years.

Salki said some of the older students' work is "almost publishable," high praise meaning a project is original research that explores new theories or makes fresh factual observations.

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Students Use Phones, Games in Science Fair Experiments

By Gabrielle Giroday

IT'S certainly not your parents' science fair.

Instead, there were cellphones and video games at the Manit...

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