On Wednesday the gym became a laboratory. Water filtration, solar energy, seeds sprouting under coloured light: pupils from 1AM to 4AM explained their experiments to families and a jury of three teachers. The 3AM project « A greenhouse that waters itself » will represent the school at the wilaya competition.
Every project began in January with a question asked in science class: why does a seed grow faster under one light than another? How do you filter tank water with sand and charcoal? The pupils kept a lab notebook for three months, with their measurements, their failures and their corrections.
The jury did not mark the result but the method: was the question clear, the experiment honest, the conclusion careful? That is what the science programme asks from 1AM to 4AM, and what the BEM will assess in a month.
