BUFFALO, N.Y. — Hundreds of students from schools across Western New York packed up their poster boards ready to present at Buffalo State Monday.
Each middle school student got to pick their own research topic.
There was a wide range of ideas from sound helping with healing, to paper airplane design, gluten free food, and sleep.
"My driving question is 'how does sleep impact a teen's mental and physical health?' I chose this because I struggled with sleep and I wanted to find a way that I could sleep better," said Savannah Smith, 8th grader at Lewiston-Porter. "Sleep is one of the most important things that you need in order to succeed in school."
"Everything here is student led. So they are connecting things that they are interested in, parts of their identity, doing research and then presenting that to other people," said Melanie Kitchen, Coordinator Instructional Tech Erie 1 BOCES.
Four hundred middle school students were at the conference bringing together 11 school districts.