Homelss Intel semi-finalist

snipersas
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:02:48 +0000

The competition on the other hand is totally flawed and seems to totally depend on having access to major labs and fulltime professors. It depends on major research faculty spending all their time advising high school kids.



As I noted above, you are wrong. While it is certainly true that some students do receive professional support for their projects, not all do - and the opportunity to independently conduct research keeps people (like me) from dying of boredom in regular high school classes.

Are there flaws in the system? Yes. But science fairs remain some of the best competitions ever devised.