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The City of San Francisco Says My Kids’ Science Challenge Rocks!
I’m lucky to live in San Francisco, which is a great city that is surrounded by water on three sides. So people here really care about the environment. And they’re excited that I’m using science to find the real truth about what chemicals and bacteria can be found in both grass and synthetic turf soccer fields. Here are some pictures of the awards I received from our Mayor Gavin Newsom, and our Supervisor Bevan Dufty for winning the Kids Science Challenge, and for using science to find out answers that will help our city government to plan what is best for the environment in our city.

Plant Experiments are in Final Phase
In February I started growing carrots from seed in peet that was soaked in synthetic turf runoff water, grass soccer field runoff water, and plain old San Francisco tap water. I wanted to see which plants would grow best from which water. Here it is late June already! I have just finished the third grade. And my plants are finishing their growing cycle. The results so far are: synthetic turf carrots - 9 inches tall. Tap water carrots - 6 inches tall. Grass water carrots - 5 inches tall. Dr. Adina Paytan at UC Santa Cruz will examine the plants, their carrots, and the soil they have grown in. They have been watered every day with water from their type of field (or tap water.) I was surprised that the synthetic turf carrots have grown faster and taller than the rest.
My Science Project With Dr. Adina Paytan is On KGO-TV
It was very exciting to see me on TV explaining my project. You can see the video from KGO TV by clicking here.
I’m looking forward to accomplishing this big study. My water samples are at Dr. Adina’s lab in UC Santa Cruz, and we are starting to get preliminary results from the first 10 samples. I’ll let you know as soon as we get all of the results back.
Radio Disney
My sister and I did a 30 minute spot for Radio Disney. They said it will be on Saturday morning. Sorry I don’t know what time but she did say it would be early. We had a great time. She made it very easy for both of us. I think it was because she was great but it might be because I have done a lot of interviews. Either way I highly recommend it.













