RE: science fairs

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Original poster: "Basura, Brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com>

List,

Terry has a good point about thinking outside the box (or outside the
nine-dots as I was taught). For a very interesting story of a teen who
thought way outside the box check out this true story

http://fp2.hughes-dot-net/brianb/Download%20Files/Nuke%20Kid%20On%20The%20Block.pdf


Regards,
Brian B.

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Subject:	Re: science fairs

Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

<snip>  

Microwave guns, Tesla coils, grass "decimating" lawn mower blades (upsets
tree huggers...) and the kid with 100 feet of rubber tubing and a
Volkswagon for the worlds most powerful water balloon sling shot are the
"right stuff - NOT!" for the weenie local science fair...  These are
projects only for those that really know what they are doing and "really"
are thinking out of the "little box"...

<snip>

Cheers,

	Terry


At 05:53 PM 9/29/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Indeed this would work for display, but if you read the rules carefully, it
>says that the work being done has to meet the requirements, not just the
>display.  If your project was, say, injecting carcinogens into sixth
>graders, it wouldn't matter that you didn't display the carcinogens, the
>problem would be with the use of them in the first place.
>
>The real point is that you'd hate to go to all the trouble of building the
>totally cool coil, doing all the research, writing it up, entering in the
>school fair (usually the first step) (where they don't always check this
>stuff..), winning and getting selected to move up to the next tier (i.e.
>GSDSEF or ISEF), and then getting your application bounced because you
>didn't get the hazmat cert signed at the beginning.
>
>For all you know, there is some well meaning (but inappropriate) rule
>prohibiting the use of spray cans by minors, so when you sprayed the acrylic
>on your secondary, you just shafted yourself.
>
>Been there, had the problems, spent much time getting it straightened out,
>and this was with a fairly benign project (measuring EEGs on kids) in the
>kinder, gentler, less-litigious days in the seventies, and getting caught
>out for not having the necessary "experimentation with human subjects
>review" (or whatever it was, I don't recall 20 years later) before I
>started.  Of course, this IS just part of the learning experience of being
>in a science fair.
>
>Moral of the story: Read the rules BEFORE you start.
>
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