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Who: Five 10th - 12th High School Students per
school
What:
JSHS Science
Workshop
Where: Pigeon Lake in
Drummond Wisconsin
When: Sunday (noon)
- Tuesday (noon) - be home by 5 p.m.
Usually the 3rd week in September
Cost: $ for lunch on the way up and back. Everything else is FREE (meals and housing)
Why
should I go:
You
don't have to have a project to go.
If
you want to go as a Senior, you must take a science project.
Usually
8 students out of 75 who go to JSHS present projects.
First
place gets $2,000
Second place gets $1,500
Third place gets $1,000
The
top 5 students go to the National Workshop - All expense paid in April for 5
days where students who was selected #1 and #2 at
Pigeon Lake will get another chance to present for more $$$$$
At
Nationals
1st
place is an additional $16,000
2nd
place is an additional $6,000
3rd
place is an additional $2,000
Three
years ago, Laura Appleman from Westby won 3rd and earned
a total of $6,000.
You
stay in cabins right on Pigeon lake.
Canoe,
bike, hike, camp fires and lots of
fun
You
meet students from 15 different schools and see some neat projects.
Ask
Anastasia, she has been there but it was in the summer and she doesn't like
spiders.
Remember
that if you are out for sports, you will have to miss Monday and Tuesday.
If you are interested, Please submit answers to the following questions to
your
teacher by May
10th
1.
What is your interest in science?
2.
Why should you be selected for this trip?
3.
If you were selected and decided to return to Pigeon lake the second
year, what area of science would you be interested in studying?
4.
Do you have any science mentors outside of school who could help you with
a project?
5.
Are you in any activity
(sports/work) in the fall that would conflict with you going to Pigeon Lake?
If
so, are you willing to put Pigeon Lake FIRST?