How do Sci-Fair Finalists conceive of winning topics?

CountingDown
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:32:31 +0000

For DS, the research was the critical part. He thought it totally cool that he came up with an interesting result on his own. Whether or not it won any awards was irrelevant to him.

He’s another one, who, while not in bio, spent much time reading on his own and learning his field. He’s been reading stuff in his particular subspecialty for the past two years (though has been very involved in the overall field for far longer than that), but it was just about a year ago that he felt he had the tools to start trying to do research.