Four Sartell Middle School students competed in a state science fair, and one of them received a bronze award and the Minnesota Science Museum Award.
Elizabeth Ruder, a seventh-grader, was honored for her project entitled “Feathers vs. Vanes: Flight Through the Wind.” Ruter tested the variables of the effects of wind on arrow fletches as they were shot through a wind tunnel.
Other participants were Peter Amundson, an eighth-grader, whose project was entitled “To Build a Fire,” and Peyton Braun and Kobey Cofer, both eighth-graders, whose project was dubbed “Solubility of Drugs.”
The Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair took place March 30-April 1 in Bloomington.