Hannah's Science Fair

We are always crazy-busy around here, but our most recent "big event" (worth documenting) happened on April 27th for Hannah. Teamed up with her friend, Sarah P, they Cloned Cabbages. She had originally wanted to build a steam-powered clock but I was able to reason with her and, with some help from Google, we were able to find science fair projects with step-by-step instructions (I love the internet!).

The girls got together one weekend and set up different "environments" in which to "clone cabbages". What this entailed was cutting up cabbage cores and replanting them in six different baggies - soil, manure, grass clippings, peat moss, fertilizer pellets, and mulch. They then had the easy job of sitting back and letting nature do the work.

The morning of the fair Hannah posted to facebook that she was pretty nervous.

I showed up after the judging to find the girls wearing the goggles because they were sure they made them look more scientific. They were also jumping around because they were convinced that they were going to win with a score of 67 out of 100. (Hmm, that doesn't sound like a winning score to me...)


They ended up with a 97 out of 100 and took Overall First Place. Not only did they get gold medals, but trophies as well!


Those goggles must have really done their job!