We've been Third, Second and first in the past. This year we took best in show out of the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.

The project is called Corner of My Eye. Basically, We proved scientifically that people with brown eyes have better peripheral vision. The project will represent John C. Fremont Middle School in the city wide play-offs to be held in a few months. Oh Yeah, The whole project was put together with Photoshop!



Yea Science and Photoshop!

Well, THIS certainly deserves a congratulations!! Nice Thanksgiving surprise. Good luck in urther comps.

Great!

Ok, so now we know THAT people with brown eyes have better peripheral vision! So do we know WHY? I'm curious.
And further more, How, may I ask, did you prove this?
BTW I have brown eyes!

People with darker eyes usually have larger pupils allowing more light to the retina. We used a 'vision protractor' to test peripheral vision. First, We made a big half donut and labled it like a protractor. In the middle is a blue dot for focusing. A blue tipped pen was slowly moved from back to front and marks were made and measured on the protractor. We did 3 tests on each eye. Then we charted the results.

The worst part was putting all the text together with Photoshop. We tried using office type programs but they all sucked. Only Photoshop allowed me to manipulate sizes so I could print everything on 8.5 x 11 without wasting space.

BTW, We totally didn't think of any of this. This wasn't our idea. The original was done by a much older girl(college?) and won some kind of big award. We didn't copy any of the results though. We tried to keep it fair.

And you did it all on that POS LINUX MONSTER!!??

You ROCK, Dog! Congrats to y'all!

Brown eyes "bulge" a bit more than blue or green eyes allowing them a tiny bit extra peripheral vision. This is reflected in that famous song:

"Don't it make your brown eyes balloon."

Brown eye's pupils are larger, allowing in more light? Well that supports my theory that brown eyes blocks more light than blue eyes. Brown eye's pupils would have to open up more to allow in more light. I have blue eyes, and when it's a bright sunny day, I have to squint. I get no light diffusion. And when I squint, I lose about 40 degrees of peripheral vision on both sides. When you lose peripheral vision, you tend to get claustrophobic. Congratulations BOS!

Congrats

This was actually one of the mini-labs that we had to do for Bio 102 last Spring. I thought it was really interesting at the time.

Congratulations...I remember my Science Fair days. That's a really big deal!