ASE
Well, ASE is finally over, and I'm a little sad, but glad for a break. It was immensely fun. Now I just need to think of the next project. I want to enter in a regional ISEF-affiliated science fair, but I'm not going to get anywhere with cold fusion. That would be like preaching the continental drift to the American Geological Society (if there even is such a thing) in the 1920s, if you get my point. I've certainly got ideas, but they're all way too complicated and expensive to be practical. Since I know some people at PSU, I probably could scrounge some things from there, but I need a definitive plan first... More to come later. For now, I'm investigating a hunch about solar radiation. Oh and good job to everyone I know who did ASE (Andy, David, Hendrik, Jodi, Anna, Bjorkquist, those three people from the top floor of SBII who always play hacky-sack, and anyone else I forgot), and everyone who didn't apply should apply next year.
Did you by chance see all the science fair projects downtown this year? I was in the science fair system in middle school and it is a very good way to get scholarship $ and credentials. I believe the hardest part of the projects are picking them. But then again, choosing has never been my strong point.
I didn't see the ones downtown this year. I agree though, it's really difficult to pick a project that can be a sure-fire winner and isn't too complicated to manage. I can come up with lots of interesting ideas of things to do with particle accelerators, but not much to do with the spare junk at PSU.
I recommend choosing something simple, profound, useful, easy, and cheap. The amount of work that gets put into projects is quite a bit more than you might expect so do something easy.
You didn't say how your presentation went. Or is it too painful to talk about?
Ha, it went acceptably. Like I say, pessimism is the most uplifting mental attitude. It wasn't impressive to me, but it got the job done and all parties pulled through without much embarrassment. Now I'm going on vacation! Must get away from all of this nonesense.
Argh. Operation Catapult. Dork :P
... I'll be back Christmas, we're so having a speech Christmas party.