How do Sci-Fair Finalists conceive of winning topics?

arwen15
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:16:19 +0000

I was the ISEF representative for my state when I had not
done a single AP though I had read quite a few papers on arXiv
and was an avid basement/garage experimenter who breoke things
and found out how they tick Also the MIT OCW is a good place
to get great reading material if you know what you are looking for.

I am not sure the ISEF in itself is that much of a prestigious thing
for applicants. I felt the Intel STS on top of Siemens
makes a big difference and actually publishing ones research
makes a very big difference.

Maybe you do your research and convince someone to okay your publishing
it on arXiv. Hey, if the proof for Fermat could be done there first it should be
good enough for anyone…?

One way to keep count of where you are could be the amount of hard cash
you win. Not the “$30,000 a year if you go to a specific school”
kind of award but cold hard cash/US bearer bonds with no strings attached.
he he.

:)