This section recognizes some of our recent outstanding student projects. These projects are choosen based on the input of both students and staff, who consider a variety of factors when recognizing these achievements.

I did my project on Wanda Gag and

The Wanda Gag House Association.

This project is about Wanda’s life.

How I got the information is the New Ulm website.

My project began on

September 13th and ended on October 6, 2011.

I also chose this project because I thought it was interesting.

This project is important to me because

it tells me about the history of New Ulm.

This project is different from other projects because

in the past I have done science projects.

The project helped me get involved in the community by learning about New

Ulm and The Wanda Gag House association.


This project will lead to another project because,

this one inspired me a lot about New Ulm.

 

In this project I researched medieval weapons and armor, how they work, how they were made and how much damage they can do.  Chain mail is one of my favorite medieval items, it's really cool and it must have took them forever to make it.  I am glad I did this project.

I made a catapault.  This took a long time make, and after wood hitting my knee, hammering my finger two times, dropping the hammer on my foot, three splinters and other painful things it was finished.  A lot of pain was experienced, but it was still fun.  I launched a sander sponge with it, and it flew about 5 feet.  I still might have some work to do to perfect a catapault. 

I would like to do more work in the wood shop.

I decided to do a project on how much bacteria was spread by double dipping. I had gotten the idea from Mythbusters, and their inspiration came from Seinfeld. I thought that it sounded like a fun project, and I wanted to test it for myself.

I had to do a lot of research just to find a little bit of information about double dipping. There have really only been two studies, and I could not derive much from those, so I did a lot of this project on my own. I had to figure out how to collect and culture bacteria safely. 

After analysis of all my data, I conclude that double-dipping does, in fact, spread bacteria into the presented dip. My first hypothesis was supported by the results that there was an average of a 6% increase in all of the experiments. 92% of the petri dishes grew more bacteria in them compared to the control.