![]() ![]() I remember a fair where the judging team included a Kiwanis Club representative (they paid for the trophies), a school board member, and a pool contractor who was a volunteer at the school. You might add: Science Fair Judges Hate Them. Science Fairs do not make kids love Science. Here’s the question you need to ask yourself: What can I do to make this kid love science? Every one of them will be in the kids’ hands in two minutes. If you don’t think so, leave a pile of mechanical puzzles on the table and don’t draw attention to it. Kids want to be creative, they want to think, they want to learn. OK, maybe once, but you lost them as a customer forever if you do that. You can’t sell someone something they don’t want or need. I know, it’s not the county science fair. I help them to make sure they are doing good science. I call it my “ Mythbusters Project.” To be honest, I don’t care if it’s a stupid idea they are testing. I will be doing a science fair in my classroom in about a week. Is science really distilling everything they know about a topic and making it fit on a bent poster board? If they make a paper airplane in my class, they better make five or ten and tell me what design works best and why. I make them launch rockets and throw balls. ![]() I want them to ask questions and be curious. I want them to play in science, find the joy and excitement. ![]() I make my students experiment constantly. OK, now that I got that off my chest, let’s talk about this. Be honest, they are brutal to grade, the work is not worth the effort. They don’t understand the need for the formality in the presentation. There are dozens of books on the topic and everybody is clawing at them, trying to find something they can handle. Coming up with a good science experiment project is really hard to do. The pressure on the parents to create a decent project is awful. Most aren’t any more science literate than their kids. ![]()
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