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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Badin students win science limerick contest
Badin High School senior Alex Brown, left, and junior James Koch, right, have won a national contest in the 2010 Neuroscience for Kids poetry competition.
“What a great honor for them!” said Badin’s Kay Collins, chair of the Science Department. “You send in contest entries and you never know what will happen. In this case, what happened is that they won the whole thing!”
Brown and Koch wrote limericks about the nervous system for the competition, which featured 646 entries from 36 states and five foreign countries. Ten finalists were chosen at each of four grade levels, including grades 9-12, and then three winners selected in each category by a panel of 11 judges.
“Being able to write clever limericks like they did,’’ said Collins, who teaches the pair in her physiology classes, “shows you that they have paid attention and mastered the material. This is truly a major accomplishment.”
Brown is the daughter of Tom and Rhonda Brown of Hamilton and a graduate of St. Peter in Chains School. She is the president of Badin’s senior class. Koch is the son of Roger and Carol Koch of Oxford and a graduate of Queen of Peace School.
The brain is loaded with synapses,
Without them your memory lapses.
You need them it’s true.
They’re like sticky glue.
If shut down your body collapses.
- Alex Brown
Every movement accounted for,
Even ones that you may ignore,
It keeps you alive,
So that you may thrive.
The brain does all of this and more.
- James Koch
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