Many More Projects

Oh my gosh, not another one! Recently we have all been turning in term projects for our science classes; I decided to do a slide presentation on Natural Gas and Petroleum products. I found out many things that I found quite interesting while doing this. I never quite realized how many things are done with these products, and how much they affect our lives.

One part in this term project included having to make a list of 100 items made by petroleum products, but the list just keeps going!. So for about three or four slides a list of things such as keyboards, earphones, iPods, etc… goes on and on. Yet, on other slides, there had to be explanations of how oil shale is mined.

Now oil shale is an interesting rock, at Science Olympiad our coaches brought some samples, and I can remember Nicole saying “how horrible it smelled,” when you scratched two pieces together. While I seemed to think that it smelled rather “interesting, but not quite as bad as it seemed.” Oil shale holds its petroleum in little balloons, and then the petroleum is then extracted from these pores after it is mined.

Just remember that just because we can list items such as videos, speakers, and soccer balls, might just be the reason that oil prices have gone up so much. As always, we may think nothing of this, but just remember the over- use of oil is the reason prices have gone up.

But now off of the note of oil, can you believe that this year is almost three quarters of the way over? It seemed like time dragged through the almost three years that we have been at Fairfield Junior High. But now that you look back on it, it doesn’t seem like we have been there that long. I think that it might be tougher than we all think to leave the school were we have all done so much growing, and learning, and spent so much of our lives for the past three years. But, I guess that life will move on, just as it always does.

And now, on yet another different note, have any of you seen the Layton High School musical this year? It was an amazing play yet again, the name of it was, “Will Rogers Follies” it told the story of an amazing man in American history that most of us don’t even know, and rarely gets recognized. He was known for many radio shows, and being in so many different, well, follies. He stated out as a man who did amazing rope tricks, but in later life he was most known for reporting on the American government, in a very comical way. If you guys get a chance look him up, he played a role bigger than most of us would think.