The sophomore science fair was this past Tuesday and Wednesday, but it wasn’t your traditional science fair. There were no posters or live science experiments to be shown. Instead, students were to get into groups of three or four and record their science experiments and upload it on to FlipGrid.

Some students, like sophomore Mina Rubealcaba, prefer to record the experiment and upload it rather than presenting and explain the procedure live.

“It made it so much easier because when we messed up we could just do it over again and saved us a lot of the hassle,” Rubealcaba said. “If we messed up live then it may have cost us points.”

On the other hand, some students prefer the traditional science fair presentation than the video format.

“I didn’t like that we had to do it at home and record it and upload it,” sophomore Fernando Moya said. “We should’ve just done it the normal way, it would’ve been better, this is just too much.”

After the videos were watched, students were to then peer revise other groups based on a rubric that was given up to 30 points.

“Grading was easy, most people did a really good job with their project,” said sophomore Earl Alba. “I just hope they go easy on mine.”