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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a genuinely really cool science fair experiment. Too many science fairs encourage students to have grand, showy results that ultimately are just reproductions of existing experiments.

IMO science fairs should produce new data and new ideas, even if the methodology and rigor is lacking. It's the process that counts, not the results.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Also why the process might be lacking NOW with encouragement and recognition, those children could continue to work on their thesis and theories and make groundbreaking discovers in the future.

I rather we encourage the children showing creativity, curiosity and intrest in a subject, then the 5000 baking soda volcano or solar system display.