Edgewood places in McWane science competition

Edgewood Elementary School fifth-graders in Christen Sloderbeck’s enrichment class won third place in the McWane Science Center’s recent Celebrate Science competition. 

They competed against 19 other teams and received $750. 

Celebrate Science is a yearlong contest in which students work together to design a prototype for a new exhibit at the McWane Center. Participants begin brainstorming ideas in September and then complete the various steps of the engineering process, submitting their final prototype in April. 

Edgewood’s prototype, “Do You See What I See?” features a giant model of an eye that visitors could walk in to learn about the structure of the human eye. The prototype also includes four “fact centers” inside the eye, explaining common types of vision problems such as nearsightedness and color blindness.