The students at Greensburg Elementary School are keeping busy both in their academic lives and their development as philanthropists.

The school is working to collect funds to qualify as a Riley Miracle School this year, Principal Rock Linville explained. Thus far, the school has raised just $30 less than the necessary quantity to be declared a Miracle School by Riley Children’s Hospital. The student council will be developing plans for another fundraiser in April to make sure the goal is met, he noted.

In addition, the third through fifth grades participated in a science fair this week, producing a wide variety of projects, each focused on the proper process of scientific inquiry. Judging took place on Monday morning and families had the opportunity to view them that night as well as Tuesday during the fifth grade family fun night and fourth grade family fun night, respectively.

For the third grade, Kristen Adams was named the overall champion for her project, “Do different environments affect the mold process of bread?” In the fourth and fifth grade science fairs, champions were named in three categories. For fourth grade, Austin Dean was Life Science Champion for his project examining peripheral vision. Ashley Bower took top honors in Physical Science for her project, “Does ice melt faster in salt water or fresh water?” The Earth and Space Science champion spot was taken by Abby Scheumann for her project looking at how houses remain standing during an earthquake.

In the fifth grade, Kyle Bumbala’s project examining whether a hearing person can read lips as well as one who is deaf was named Life Science Champion. Jacob Isom’s project was the Earth and Space Science Champion, as he looked at water purity in different schools. A joint project between Keaton Atchley and Kyle Blodgett took the Physical Science Champion spot for, “Does the color of a house affect the inside temperature?”