Just like her father, she combines science with beach fun.

Shayne's first science fair experiment. Although the erupting volcano was considered, I was happy that she decided to do an original research project bsaed on her own curiosity. Shayne has always noticed how coarse or fine the sand is when we go to a new beach. I asked her to try to figure out what determines the qualities of a beach sand. It is a great science fair project because it requires we go to the beach to collect data. This is some of the sands that Shayne has collected and she is about to determine how coarse the sand is by measuring how much of a fixed amount of dry sand will flow through a tea strainer. She (with my help) then converts it to a percentage score of 'fineness'.