10 ideas and some power tips to make you the king of your science fair!
Studio C collab video! https://youtu.be/QCUyhiF6-0Q
Credit to my sister Lisa for being my professional consultant on a lot of these ideas and tips.
My 10 ideas:
1. Number of card shuffles
1.5 Do Carrots improve night vision?
2. 5 second rule
3. Dirtiest surfaces in your house
4. Helium soccer balls
5. Rock, Paper, Scissors strategy- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/03/rock-paper-scissors_n_5255288.html
6. Does Practice make Perfect?
7. Best paper airplane
8. Best microwave strategy. Measure the speed of light- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5W6xEeY5U
9. Rubber animal reactions
10. “He looks just like you”
Additional awesome ideas from the comments:
1. How often do people actually stop at stop signs? See if there are patterns for age, car model, etc.
2. ???
4 power tips:
1. Make it relatable
2. Measure 1 thing. Change 1 thing.
3. Make a prediction
4. Practice the interview
Haircut tips raw data- https://www.dropbox.com/s/hctsaf86pvste2l/Haircut%20Tip%20Amounts.xlsx?dl=0
MUSIC-
0:08- Almost Original- Joakim Karud- https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
2:01- Berlin- Andrew Applepie- http://andrewapplepie.com/
Summary: I’m a big fan of science fairs because for a lot of kids it’s their first exposure to science! But I think a lot of times it’s not a good first impression. I tried to come with 10 ideas and general tips that will make it way more awesome for the student.
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i love science fairs because for a lot
of kids it’s their first exposure to
science and because of my background in
science and this youtube channel and the
fact that i am an uncle i’ve consulted
on quite a few projects
so today with some help from my
superstar nephew tai we’re not only
going to tell you our secrets on how to
win but we’re going to give you 10
different science fair project ideas
most of which we’ve tried and not to
brag but they’ve won first place so
let’s just get right started with the
ideas and then we’ll tell you some of
our tips as we go along so the first
idea is how many times do you need to
shuffle a deck of cards
before they are sufficiently mixed up so
the idea is you arrange all the cards in
order and then you have one person
shuffle them and then after each shuffle
you count how many cards are still in
sequential order so you repeat this a
bunch of times and then take an average
of how many shuffles it takes until you
feel they’re sufficiently mixed up which
i would argue is really useful
information to be armed with this brings
us our first really important power tip
the project
should be relatable to the kid something
they encounter in their everyday lives
they actually want to test so like kids
can challenge something their parents
always tell them like does eating
carrots really give you enhanced night
vision whatever you do do not do the
science project what effect does
sunlight or no sunlight have on plant
growth first of all three other people
will already be doing that project at
your science fair and secondly that is
so
boring what a lame first exposure to the
scientific method that would be a more
exciting idea would be to test if the
five-second rule is really true so you
could drop a piece of food on the ground
and leave it there for one second and
then drop another piece on the ground
leave it there for six seconds and then
take a culture of each and put it in a
petri dish and then compare the spore
growth after a couple days petri dishes
are like 15 bucks on amazon and they’re
a great way to measure the level of
bacteria on any surface so another
project idea would be to measure which
surfaces in your house are the most
germ-infested okay for our fourth idea i
remember as a kid hearing that
professional soccer players would use
balls filled with helium and that’s why
they were able to kick it so far so you
could test this by feeling one ball with
normal layer and then one with helium
and then do a bunch of kicks and see
which one goes farther but there’s a
slight problem with this and it
introduces our second power tip even
with the same ball i don’t kick it the
same distance every single time so we’re
introducing some extra uncertainty and
not just measuring the effect of the
helium so a better way to test this is
to drop them both from a tall distance
and see if one hits the ground later
than the other a good experiment is
designed such that you keep everything
the exact same and then you change only
