Jocelyn's Science Fair Project

Fruity Snack Attack: Jocelyn chose to participate in her school science fair project and it was a hit! As a kindergartner it was a little tough to explain to her the scientific process, but she got the idea and chose to do an experiment about fruit snacks and their taste. Her school was really strict about no allowing students to simply create a volcano or model of some sort; they actually had to present a problem, hypothesis, experiment and conclusion. Jocelyn presented the idea of fruit snack varieties and wondered if the character (name brand) snacks tasted better than store brand snacks. So we selected eight kinds of fruit snack, Kellogg's, Betty Crocker, Sunkist, Welch's , Kroger, Target, Walmart and Annie's organics. She invited eight friends over... blind folded them and had them rate the fruit snacks; very bad, bad, OK, good and very good. It was interesting; the Annie's organics won by a landslide. Of course we aided Jocelyn through the entire process, but we're so proud of her ambition and excitement about the entire thing. She was presented a blue ribbon for the most comprehensive project research of kindergartner thru 2nd graders. She was thrilled...

(pic #1 the fruit snacks, #2 Jocelyn testing her experiment, #3 & 4 the finished project, #5 K-2nd grade blue ribbon awards, #6 J with her certificate of participation and blue ribbon and #7 at the fair!)