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The 2026 Crespi STEM Expo was a campus-wide celebration of student curiosity and hands-on learning, with presentations spread across many rooms and supported by our Science Department teachers and AP student moderators. Visitors moved room-to-room to hear students explain their methods, defend their results, and demonstrate how classroom learning translates into real investigation—from CP Biology and CP Chemistry to Physiology, Honors courses, Zoology, and Physics.

A major throughline this year was sustainability and environmental impact. Our CP Chemistry students completed a themed project, “How Effective Is Our School at Sorting Waste Correctly?” by examining campus trash (black), recycling (blue), and compost (green) bins to evaluate how well we’re sorting waste in real life. Alongside that theme, many students explored composting and decomposition through creative, practical experiments—comparing Crespi compost to commercial compost, testing compost speed, and tracking decomposition across a variety of materials and foods (from fruits and bread to “How long do chicken nuggets last?”).

The Expo also highlighted the range of STEM thinking happening across disciplines: physiology teams explored topics like sleep impact, performance, emotions, stress/recovery, and even beverage comparisons, while physics students tackled engineering and motion challenges like egg drop, roller coasters, pendulums, parachute descent velocity, air resistance, electromagnetism, terminal velocity, and the relationship between incline angle and velocity. Zoology students contributed observational data collection to determine the biodiversity of Los Angeles—another strong reminder that science is as much about noticing the world carefully as it is about testing it. Thank you to every student presenter, faculty facilitator, and AP moderator who helped make the 2026 Crespi STEM Expo a proud showcase of learning in action.