Ask HN: Any help with ideas for the college science fair?
Any links or ideas to get the creative juices flowing would be excellent. Most of the resources I found online were middle school or high school based.
Any links or ideas to get the creative juices flowing would be excellent. Most of the resources I found online were middle school or high school based.
Which is to say: You can probably go far by reading a page like this one:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
Definitely not for middle school students. You're in the big leagues now! Unfortunately, you may not cease to feel like a dressed-up middle schooler on parade until after you get tenure, if then. ;)
Don't worry about the fact that your project is highly abstract. Almost any science project which is not a toy is highly abstract. [1] But do try to bring it down to earth. Pretend that you're trying to explain the project to the average HN reader's parents -- probably generally smart, but probably barely know what "bioinformatics" means and may not even use the computer that much.
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[1] If you can explain your science project completely to a kindergartener and it is not a toy, you've got it made, because the grant money is going to fly in.