Siemens Competition participation

snipersas
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:21:14 +0000

The solution is to keep pursuing professors. Don’t call them or email them - both types of communication are too easy to ignore. Visit their offices during their office hours or after they’ve posted grades for the semester. Tell them you’re interested in their work and ask if they are willing to take on an unpaid high school intern (eventually most will pay you anyhow). Siemens/Intel/other major research competitions should not be a goal, but rather a natural outgrowth of a solid project. Find a good mentor, work hard, and you will do fine.

Oh, and don’t bother with teachers - very, very few have the necessary expertise, time, or money to oversee a project competitive for national circuit science competition.