Mark your calendars for a fun family outing to see the Phillies play the Brewers on Saturday, June 9th at 1:05PM. 

Stay tuned for details!

Overall Winners

1st) Saturated Solutions: Measuring Solubility Michael

2nd) Huddle & Cuddle: How Puppies Keep Warm – Sunny

3rd) Separating Mixtures: Can You Design a Device to Do It? – Tiffany

Honorable Mention) That’s a Pretty Tough Baby! A Study of Gender Stereotypes in Children – Sophia

Category Winners

Behavior/Social Science (BSS)  

1st) That’s a Pretty Tough Baby! A Study of Gender Stereotypes in Children – Sophia

2nd) Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Investigating Inattentional Blindness – Sabrina

3rd) Now You See It, Now You Don’t: A Chromatic Adaptation Project – Yun

Honorable Mention) That’s a Real Smile! …or is it? – Xiaomei

Biochemistry (BC)

1st) Separating Mixtures: Can You Design a Device to Do It? – Tiffany

2nd) Great Globs of Gluten! Which Wheat Flour Has The Most? – Weishan

3rd) Kimchi Chemistry – Xi

Honorable Mention) How Much DNA Can You Pack into a Cell? – Alonso

Botany (B)

1st) How Many Seeds Do Different Types of Fruit Produce? – Yu Lin

2nd) What Color Are the Leaves Really Turning? – Joyce

3rd) How Vines Find Their Spines: Thigmotropism in Morning Glory Tendrils Tony

Honorable Mention) Reveal the Red: Exploring the Chemistry of Red Flower Pigments – Ishtar

Chemistry (C)

1st) Saturated Solutions: Measuring Solubility Michael

2nd) Making Maple Syrup Candy: How Does Temperature Affect It? – Camille

3rd) Make Your Own pH Paper – Queenie

Honorable Mention) Candy Chromatography: What Makes Those Colors? – Phoebe

Computer Science  (CMS)

1st) The Pixel Puzzle: Why Video Game Characters Look Better Today – Owen

2nd) What Materials Can Block a Wi-Fi Signal? – Mahdi

Earth Space Science (ESS)

1st) Shaking for Suds: Which Type of Water is the Hardest? – Jason

2nd) A Puzzling Parallax – Vivian H.

Engineering (E)

1st) Hands-on Activity:Biodomes Engineering Design Project – Junhao

2nd) The Strength of an Electromagnet – Harry

3rd) Dance Mania: Build Your Own Dance Pad! – Ryan

Honorable Mention) Keeping You in Suspens(ion) – Tiffany

Environmental Science (ES)

1st) Leaky Clues to Dam Design: How Reservoir Height Affects Hydroelectric Power Production – Qing

2nd) Can Nanotechnology Help Clean Up Ocean Oil Spills? Try It Yourself with Ferrofluid – Nina

3rd) From Contaminated to Clean: How Filtering Can Clean Water – Leo

Honorable Mention) Make the Wind Work for You! – Justin

Mathematics (MM)

1st) What are the Odds? Modeling the Chances of Getting an Autoimmune Disease – Steven

Medicine/Health (MH)

1st) Calcium Carbonate to the Rescue! How Antacids Relieve Heartburn – Kiyana

2nd) A Day in the Life of Your Heart – Annie

3rd) Minding your Mummies: The Science of Mummification – Devon

Honorable Mention) Why Aren’t All Medicines Pills? – Kelly

Microbiology (M)

1st) Rise to the Occasion: Investigating Requirements for Yeast Fermentation – Clara

2nd) What is the Effect of Aeration on Yeet Metabolism – Andre

3rd) Yuck, What Happened to My Apple? How Food Wrappings Affect Spoilage – Andy

Honorable Mention) Yogurt Cultures – Brian

Physics (P)

1st) Butterfly Wings: Using Nature to Learn About Flight – Alex

2nd) Golf Clubs, Loft Angle, and Distance  – Jackson L.

3rd) Build a Raft Powered by Surface Tension – Sorena

Honorable Mention) Supercooling Water and Snap Freezing – Eric

Zoology (Z)

1st) Comparing Vocal Ranges: How High and Low Can You Go? – Ye

2nd) Huddle & Cuddle: How Puppies Keep Warm – Sunny

Consumer Science (CS)

1st) Flavor That Food! Exploring the Science of Marinades – Bernice

2nd) Candy Chromatography: What Makes Those Colors? – Jolin

3rd) Lights Out: Which Battery Lasts the Longest?- Emma G.

Honorable Mention) Does Weight Affect a Drone’s Battery Life? – Jackson B.

If you are interested in serving on the Nominating Committee for this spring’s HSA elections, please email Laurel at president@mccallschool.org.

Rooms 211 and 217 are still in the lead! Ms. Morris’s class has collected 978 Box Tops as of the February collection date, and Ms. Stuart’s class is leading in Grades 4-8 with 396!

Keep collecting for our final submission date of the school year! Remember to clip carefully – each Box Top must have a product code and expiration date visible in order to be counted. Box Tops that are expired, missing the product code, or missing the expiration date don’t count and can’t be submitted for credit.

Please contact our Box Top Coordinator, Christie Weidner at christieweidner@gmail.com with questions!

The most important news and events for the week of February 26, 2018:

• Save the date for McCall HSA’s 6th Annual Gala!
• The Chinese New Year Party was a success!
• Black History Month Assembly Programs are on Friday
• McCall’s Annual Karaoke Night at Tango is next week
• Register for Softball
• Join Students Run Philly Style
• Pretty in Pink campaign
• Ms. Hantman’s class, Room 210, is having a can drive to support Philabundance
• BeautyCounter is having a fundraiser benefiting McCall
• The Tech Lab needs your help!
• Support our teachers! Many have updated Amazon wish lists and Donors Choose projects
• Volunteering at McCall: The District’s NEW policy

Last week’s Chinese New Year’s Party was a huge success!

Thank you to the MANY Chinatown establishments, including Dim Sum Garden, MKee, Bar Ly, Nom Nom Ramen, Raw Sushi Restaurant, Franco’s Pizzeria, Ocean City, Ocean Harbor, and Greenland Bakery, for their generous donations of food. Thanks to Target of South Philadelphia for donating water, clementines, and cutlery.
Also, thank you to the parents, staff, and students who helped with set up, clean up, and donations of food and water.

Thank you to Stephanie Grenier and Alice Chin for organizing this fabulous event!

The 2018 McCall Gala & Auction will take place on the evening of Saturday, May 12th at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown! Please mark your calendars and spread the word. Our Auction Website will be evolving, but here it is!

This event is our school’s largest fundraiser of the year; last year we raised over $45,000! This adult-only community event unites parents, teachers, and neighbors as we all celebrate and support McCall. Our event includes food, drinks, live music, a huge silent (and also live!) auction, and more! Ticket prices include chips for optional mock gaming, which you may redeem for raffle boards at any point during the evening. With the raffle tickets, you can win neat prizes!

The biggest thing we need help with in advance is collecting silent auction items and securing event sponsors. Our Silent Auction includes a range of items including restaurant gift certificates, theme park admission, sporting event tickets, kids’ programs, and salon packages. Securing the donations is easier than you would think, and fun, too. Just keep the forms handy and whenever you frequent a neighborhood establishment in the coming weeks, ask them if they would please support your child’s Philadelphia public school’s upcoming silent auction.

When gathering your donations, please use the:

• Informational Letter (English Version) or the Informational Letter (中文版), and
• Donation Form (English Version) or the Donation Form (中文版)
    

Items for the silent auction may also be donated online, here.

Shortly, we will be contacting parents who secured last year’s donations, reminding them what they were and asking if they would be able to tap those donors again this year. However, If you tap somebody who has already donated, that’s totally okay, just thank them for their support! We will be updating the catalog on the website so you can see what we have already secured.

All are welcome to attend the next Coffee with the Principal/HSA Meeting on Tuesday, March 13th at 8:45 AM in the Library.

These meetings are a wonderful opportunity to meet other parents and learn about McCall happenings.

The 2018 Parent & Guardian Survey is now available!

The District would like our input. To complete the survey, you will need your child’s six-digit School District of Philadelphia Student ID Number.

The survey will be open through June 8, 2018.