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Pasco Science Showcase 2023 Guide

This document provides information about the 2023 Pasco Science and Engineering Showcase for 3rd through 5th grade students. It outlines the goals of empowering students to think critically and find solutions to real-world problems. Students will have the opportunity to conduct research and design solutions or experiments for an everyday problem related to six focus categories. The details describe what judges will look for in the students' projects, including clearly explaining the problem, science behind it, their innovative solution and its potential impact.

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Pasco Science Showcase 2023 Guide

This document provides information about the 2023 Pasco Science and Engineering Showcase for 3rd through 5th grade students. It outlines the goals of empowering students to think critically and find solutions to real-world problems. Students will have the opportunity to conduct research and design solutions or experiments for an everyday problem related to six focus categories. The details describe what judges will look for in the students' projects, including clearly explaining the problem, science behind it, their innovative solution and its potential impact.

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Showcase Parent Information 2022

Showcase Information

The 2023 Pasco Science and Engineering Showcase is getting ready to launch. We
recognize the need to empower our students to think critically and seek solutions.
Helping our youngest scientists and engineers to find a voice and see the impact
they can make is critical. The curiosity and ingenuity that drive our youngest
scientists to see the world in novel ways can be harnessed for positive change.
Through this year’s Elementary Showcase, 3rd through 5th grade students will have
the opportunity to become researchers, asking better questions and seeking
bolder solutions.

This year's theme for the Pasco Science and Engineering Showcase highlights the goal to help
our students recognize the science superpower in each of them. Our students are tackling real
world challenges everyday. Showcase provides them an avenue to learn to apply what they
know, research to build their knowledge and seek & design solutions for real world problems.
Students in grades 3-5 will have the opportunity to choose one of three paths for their research.
The pathways are Challenge Design (similar to last year, Science Experimentation (traditional
STEM Fair) or Computer Science. Regardless of the path they choose, all students will focus on a
question or problem related to our six focus categories, introduced last year. This module is
designed to help guide students through the process of selecting, researching and building their
Showcase project. 
The Details: 

Students should review the six entry topics presented below, then identify a solution to an
everyday problem that aligns with one of the six entry topics and that directly impacts them,
their families, their communities, and/or the global population. 

 aligns with one of the six categories;


 Uses research to better understand the problem and the science
behind it
 explains the problem and how it impacts them, their families,
their communities and/or the global population;
 Choose to design a solution for the problem or test a hypothesis
to collect data;
 explains the science, technology, engineering and/or
mathematics behind their innovation; and
 illustrates how their innovation or experiment could both
address the everyday problem they've identified and have a
broader impact locally or globally.
What the judges will be looking for:
 Description of the problem and how it affects the student, family, community or global
population.
 Details about the science behind the problem new innovation, experiment or solution.
Uses academic vocabulary within their explanation.
 Clear explanations and a demonstration of how well the problem and solution are
understood by the student (remember the idea must be a new innovation or solution,
and cannot simply be a behavioral change or a new use for an existing product).
 An explanation of how the innovation could have broader reach or impact beyond the
student, family, or community.
 An explanation of how the student came up with their original idea.

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