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I need help finding a good and Quick project
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YOLO_BRO
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- Joined: Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:48 pm
- Occupation: student: 8th grade
- Project Question: I have no idea what to do for science fair and need help finding a topic.
- Project Due Date: January 15
- Project Status: I am just starting
I need help finding a good and Quick project
My current science fair project just FAILED and I am fresh out of ideas. Does anyone have a clever project idea?
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YOLO_BRO
- Posts: 7
- Joined: Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:48 pm
- Occupation: student: 8th grade
- Project Question: I have no idea what to do for science fair and need help finding a topic.
- Project Due Date: January 15
- Project Status: I am just starting
Re: I need help finding a good and Quick project
Also the Topic selection tool did not work
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bradleyshanrock-solberg
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Research in Traffic and Ceramic Composites
25 years doing IT, various roles, for multinational manufacturing company - Project Due Date: n/a
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Re: I need help finding a good and Quick project
I'm going to make what may seem like a radical suggestion.
There's no real such thing as failed science. There are only experiments that didn't come out the way you predicted.
A failed result is often more interesting than one that succeeds, because it means one of your assumptions was wrong, and most real learning in science comes that way.
So given your situation, I'd present whatever results you got, however far you got, and focus on what happened that you didn't expect, and in trying to explain that. With my science fair judge hat on, I'd much rather see that than a rushed cookie-cutter last-second project. Real science is much messier than most projects and failed tests are just as important as those that neatly prove a hypothesis.
There's no real such thing as failed science. There are only experiments that didn't come out the way you predicted.
A failed result is often more interesting than one that succeeds, because it means one of your assumptions was wrong, and most real learning in science comes that way.
So given your situation, I'd present whatever results you got, however far you got, and focus on what happened that you didn't expect, and in trying to explain that. With my science fair judge hat on, I'd much rather see that than a rushed cookie-cutter last-second project. Real science is much messier than most projects and failed tests are just as important as those that neatly prove a hypothesis.