Every year in the spring, York student scientists are busy preparing for the York Science Fair. This is a showcase of projects from 8th and 9th grade students (and any other student who wants to participate) that represents the beginning stages of learning to think like a scientist at York. Projects are initiated from the student’s own inquiry, supported by research, investigated with a carefully designed and controlled experiment, and reflected upon in analysis and application. Judges from the local scientific community come to evaluate and affirm their work, while also providing an opportunity for students to engage in conversation with a diverse range of professionals in STEM-related careers. A number of students decide to participate in the Monterey County Science & Engineering Fair, where York has a long history of impressive student achievement.
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things—from subnuclear particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole."
- Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
