<p>(1) Yes you can, I don’t see why not.</p>
<p>(2) I remember a couple of years ago a girl won at ISEF for making a spectrographer in her basement: [Women</a> in Science: Mary Masterman: Intel Science Talent Search Winner](<a href=“http://sciencewomen.blogspot.com/2007/03/mary-masterman-intel-science-talent.html]Women”>Women in Science: Mary Masterman: Intel Science Talent Search Winner)</p>