About science research competition

Watson_amp_Crick
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:37:54 +0000

I have read the science research projects that were awarded in Siemens competition and Intel competition and they were all AMAZING. Kids wrote about molecular biology stuff that you would only investigate in college, and even the material they used left me awestruck.
Where do they get all that material from? Who would let them conduct independent research in their labs?

I have a hard time that what they did were original research projects (knowledge expanding research), since they are still in high school.
Does anyone know if they are actually doing innovative research, or they are basically paraphrasing other research projects already completed in an innovative way?

I’m completely clueless on this, so any information on those science competitions are more than welcome.
Thanks.