<p>bball - I’m heading to ISEF too, hope to see you there!</p>
<p>I’ve done projects for entry to ISEF all four years, but this is my first year to advance past State level (Texas’s SEF is huge!) You don’t need a lab at a university or a professor’s assistance to be able to create an awesome project. My project this year was done independently of any supervisor (well, my Biology teacher was my “sponsor” but she didn’t really help me). </p>
<p>If you’re interested in starting a project, first go and search out some of the current pertinent research being done in the world - a lot of the online science databases will allow you to view abstracts about current studies. Find a subject area you really enjoy and start asking yourself all the questions you can about it. Pretty soon you’ll hit upon something you wanna study more in-depth, and voila~!</p>
<p>Also, check out this thread of beautiful reads =)
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/473020-how-do-sci-fair-finalists-conceive-winning-topics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/473020-how-do-sci-fair-finalists-conceive-winning-topics.html</a></p>