During the year 9ADL Science have been “growing” Copper Sulfate (CuSO4) crystals.

It is a finicky process that is hard to get right. Students worked in groups to heat then saturate a copper sulfate solution.

The seed crystal from our initial experiment was then suspended in the solution providing a template for the copper sulfate in the solution to bind to and increase the size of the crystal.
The crystals below started out about the size of a fingernail or smaller, the largest crystal, grown by Sofia, Jah and Olive, will be kept as the demonstration crystal next year and the rest will be dissolved to be reused with a new class in 2023.

The runner up was dubbed “Bluecifer” by their creators Phoebe and Mikayla.