Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

i'm currently an 11th grade student in our Science Research Program in New York and will be entering 12th grade in the 2011-2012 school year. I'm looking for a mentor for research in the social sciences or biological science. My previous experiments have included The Effect of Location on a Student's Test Taking Ability in the Social Science Category and I have also worked with Planaria in experiments including The Effect of Temperature on the Locomotion of Dugesia Dorotocephala and The Effect of Temperature on the Regenerative Capabilities of Dugesia dorotocephala. I am hoping to find a mentor who can help me further my research in either of these fields or allow me to shadow them in their own research. Even though I am late in asking for help in this, I will be participating in Intel for the 2011-2012 school year. I am leaving for vacation in one week and was hoping to find a mentor for the time from when I return in August and up until any of my papers are due for Intel. For our research class, drafts are due throughout the summer and I have copies of drafts for my social science experiment that I conducted this past year as well for LISEF 2011.If there is anyone with any advice, ideas, or mentors who are willing to help please reply to this post. Thank you very much.

Hi,

I apologize for the delay in responding to you inquiry. I know you won't receive this reply until August.

It sounds like you have a variety of interests and have been successful in your science projects in the past. Science Buddies can provide you with general information and with specific answers to your project through this forum. Here is information that will help you find a local mentor for this year's project and an article with information for competing in top science competitions written by Amber Hess, a former Intel winner.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... tors.shtml

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... cess.shtml

I encourage you to go ahead with the process of identifying a topic for this year’s project even if you don’t have a local mentor available right away as successful projects usually take time.

Good luck!


Donna hardy