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Innovation Awards Showing Michelle Buchanan  Please install the
flash plugin.  Second Place  6-8 | Science & Tech | Engineering
Station WLPB in Louisiana  My Classroom Innovation  My greatest
contribution to education is my ability to enhance students’
scientific processes and thinking skills by extending my
students’ learning to the outside world, thus sparking their
curiosity about science. This innovative project required my
students to build cardboard boats from calculated dimensions and
their weight for buoyancy using only cardboard and duck tape.
The goal of this project was the application of Archimedes’
Principle. It directly correlated with NOVA’s Building Pharaoh’s
Ship because my students and those in the video followed similar
design and engineering processes in developing their final
product. This project is innovative because it promotes student
creativity, and it reinforced all 21st century skills:
interpreting and communicating informati