BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh Valley’s brightest, young science minds showed off their best science projects on Saturday at the Lehigh Valley Science and Engineering Research Fair at Lehigh University.<\/p>\n
This year, it had its largest number of participants ever.<\/p>\n
“The fair brings all 6th-12th graders in the Lehigh Valley together to show off the research they’ve been working on since fall,” said Jill Forrest, Director of Academic Outreach at Lehigh University.<\/p>\n
There were more than 200 projects this year.<\/p>\n
“We have projects that range from behavior, to zoology, to engineering, computer science, botany, there’s about 13 different categories,” said Forrest.<\/p>\n
Each student doing their best to present their hard work to the judges. The judges included professors, doctors, and industry professionals.<\/p>\n
Frank Petrocelli is a retired AirProducts engineer and has been a judge for several years.<\/p>\n
“I feel this is a really important way to stimulate interest in science among our young people,” said Petrocelli.<\/p>\n
The top winners will advance to the Delaware Valley Science Fair in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
“This isn’t really about prizes,” said Petrocelli. “I think for the students here today, it’s experience. It’s about getting an opportunity to do science, hands-on science, to get in front of judges who will evaluate their work and maybe talk a little bit, try not to be too harsh, and then just hopefully stimulate interest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh Valley’s brightest, young science minds showed off their best science projects on Saturday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-140409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}