Riverside County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Edwin Gomez, challenges families with children birth - 5th grade to read 10 million words on Footsteps2Brilliance this summer.
Free Bilingual Online Literacy Apps for Riverside County Families
As part of the Literacy by 5th Grade Initiative, Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Edwin Gomez is providing free access to a suite of bilingual learning programs for all students in Riverside county.
From pre-reading activities and read-to-you stories, to alphabet recognition songs and grammar rules games, these interactive, new tools from Footsteps2Brilliance are now available to our youngest learners 24/7.
Inventors, Scientists, and Engineers of Tomorrow to Compete at Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair
Post Date:02/27/2023 11:21 AM
RIVERSIDE – Testing whether artificial intelligence can compose an 8th grade language arts essay, identifying what kind of chocolate melts the fastest, and discovering the most efficient method to solve a Rubik’s cube, are a few of nearly 350 unique student projects set to be exhibited at the Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
A total of 450 students from 25 affiliate fairs representing public, charter, and private schools will present their findings in 347 projects spanning 19 subject matter categories from Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences to Physics and Astronomy.
Judging on Wednesday, March 1, is not open to the public. Admission is free for public viewing on Thursday, March 2, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bourns Technology Center (1200 Columbia Avenue, Riverside CA 92507). The awards ceremony, which is open to the public, will also take place at Bourns Technology Center on Friday, March 3 at 5 p.m., where gold, and silver (runner-up) medals will be presented. Community awards will also be announced during the awards ceremony.
Within each of the 19 subject matter categories, students will compete in the Grade 4/5 division, Junior division (grades 6-8), and Senior division (high school). Winners in the Junior and Senior division will advance to the California State Science and Engineering Fair to be held on April 11, 2023, at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California. Sweepstakes awards will be presented to one project in Grades 4/5 division, one project in the Junior division, and one project in the Senior division. Three Senior division students will advance to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering (ISEF) Fair to be held May 14-19, 2023, in Dallas, Texas.
Participating districts and charter/private schools include:
Alvord USD
Banning USD
Beaumont USD
Chammakilawish
Pechanga School
Coachella Valley USD
Corona-Norco USD
Desert Center USD
Desert Sands USD
Hemet USD
Jurupa USD
Lake Elsinore USD
Moreno Valley USD
Nuview Union SD
Palm Springs USD
Palo Verde USD
Rancho Christian School
REACH Leadership
STEAM Academy
Riverside USD
Romoland SD
Sacred Heart School
San Jacinto USD
St. Catherine’s of Alexandria
St. Edward’s School
Temecula Preparatory School
Val Verde USD
2023 Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair by the numbers:
125 - Projects from students in Grade 4/5 division
127 - Projects from students in Junior division (Grades 6-8)
107 - Projects from students in Senior division (Grades 9-12)
19 - Categories of competition
41 - Entries in most popular category: Chemistry
Examples of entries from this year’s event include:
Project Title: ChatGPCheat Student: Danni Brasher Grade: 8 School/District: Dr. Augustine Ramirez Intermediate School, Corona-Norco Unified School District Project Description: Can artificial intelligence be used to successfully create an 8th grade language arts essay?
Project Title: Spiderman “Web” Shooter Students: Dylan Burreson Grade: 5 School/District: James Carter Elementary School, Desert Sands Unified School District Project Description: Three different “Spiderman-type” web shooters were created to see which type would shoot the furthest.
Project Title: Yummy Mummy Student: Santiago Castillo, Alexis Cazares, Daniel Hurtado Grade: 6 School/District: Las Palmitas Elementary School, Coachella Valley Unified School District Project Description: After a social studies lesson on mummification in ancient Egypt, the team decided to test what kind of popular sausages might be easiest to rehydrate.
Project Title: Project Fire-Fly: Creating A Fire Extinguishing Drone Students: Jennavieve Covington Grade: 8 School/District: Vista Heights Middle School, Moreno Valley Unified School District Project Description: Engineering project geared toward fighting fires in a safe and efficient manner, using drone technology to swarm wildfires.
Project Title: Finding the Correlation Between the Distribution of Neutral Hydrogen Reionization Timing and the Length of Long Absorbed Gaps in the Spectrum of the Bright Quasars Student: Joseph Zenarosa Grade: 11 School/District: Martin Luther King High School, Riverside Unified School District Project Description: Studying energetic photons, “dark gap” formation and distribution, and the timing of hydrogen reionization in star-forming galaxies
Project Title: How About Them Apples? Student: Isabella Smith, Tatiana Garrido, Danica Moses Grade: 5 School/District: Starlight Elementary School, Beaumont Unified School District Project Description: The group chose to test what can prevent browning of applies as each group member experienced the process of an apple browning and expressed that they lose their appetite once an apple starts bruising
Project Title: How To Save The Ocean From Humanity With Your Damaged Hair Students: Jeremy Fors-Chang (Grade 11), Mojiha Joiner (Grade 10) School/District: Hillcrest High School, Alvord Unified School District Project Description: Group project that applied common hair treatments to hair and tested which would soak up the most oil as a way to clean up oil spills more efficiently.