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After weighing the sediment, there was no appreciable difference. They were all within .01 grams of each other, with tank A (the tank with the lowest current) actually being the heaviest of the three.

The electrolyte solution was strained through a coffee filter, with care taken that all of the sediment emptied into the filter. All three filters were kept under a light bulb all day to dry. To the touch, they all feel equally dry.

Well, he worked very hard this past week getting his paper together, assembling his display board, and preparing his demonstration/presentation. And he won 1st Place Overall at his school's science fair! So now he moves on to District level.

I took him to school this morning so I could haul his stuff up there. I get off work at noon on Fridays so had hoped to be able to browse through all the exhibits either this morning or after noon and get a picture of his. But they had to wait until after breakfast so they could move tables from the cafeteria to the gym. And everything had to come down before lunch so they could move the tables back to the cafeteria. So I didn't get to see anything. So, we set it all back up on the kitchen table to take a picture.



Once again, thanks so much for everyone's help! I'm very proud of him, and very appreciative of everyone here.

Congratulations to both father and son, Heath! Great job all around!

Hooo Rahh!

Any chance of posting his 'verbage'? Abstract, conclusions, hypothesis, question, procedure etc.?


Inquiring minds want to know!;)

He has some revising/perfecting to do for district (which is December 5). When that is done, I'll share.

He won second place overall at the district level science fair today. Now he moves on to Regional.

If anybody wants to read his research paper, here's a link to it in PDF format: https://db.tt/prcdHKg7

The sections on the board are just excerpts from the paper.

Once again - Congratulations to Both of You. You have done good.

Good Luck in the Regional competition.

Well done paper!:)

Research not shabby either!!!!

Regional Science Fair was today. He didn't win anything. During the judging, they actually said his project "lacked creativity" and "wasn't interesting." They didn't even ask him any of the questions they asked the kids around him. What won instead?

"What kind of tape is stickier?"

"What brand of laundry detergent is best?"

"What's the best way to keep onions from making you cry?"

The kind of project ideas you get from googling "science fair project ideas" and have been done over and over every year. At the previous fairs where he won, we saw other kids do these exact same projects and these kids didn't do anything different from those. It really seemed like the judging was based on the cuteness and flashiness of the board above everything else. Like it was an arts and crafts fair rather than a science fair.

Can you tell I'm a little bitter about it? It's not that I'm upset he lost. It's that he lost to boring, overdone projects.

heathicus wrote:Regional Science Fair was today. He didn't win anything. During the judging, they actually said his project "lacked creativity" and "wasn't interesting." They didn't even ask him any of the questions they asked the kids around him. What won instead?

"What kind of tape is stickier?"

"What brand of laundry detergent is best?"

"What's the best way to keep onions from making you cry?"

The kind of project ideas you get from googling "science fair project ideas" and have been done over and over every year. At the previous fairs where he won, we saw other kids do these exact same projects and these kids didn't do anything different from those. It really seemed like the judging was based on the cuteness and flashiness of the board above everything else. Like it was an arts and crafts fair rather than a science fair.

Can you tell I'm a little bitter about it? It's not that I'm upset he lost. It's that he lost to boring, overdone projects.

You guys done good!

But science will only get you so far, and then you need marketing! We clearly need Idcook to consult next year, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary social woodworking media team effort. Or better yet, recruit that Poison Ivy girl to present the poster. Now that would be "creative"!

And I'm only half-joking.