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What goes into a Science Fair?

For the STEM Guild, we plan to host multiple types of project fairs, this project fair is specifically a Science Fair. For the STEM Guild, a science fair project is one that demonstrates an understanding of what a variable is, how to test a variable, clear display of data collected, and a conclusion drawn from collected data. The project involves experimenting, testing, and gathering data to interpret into a conclusion.

Your Project Must Include

The question the project is answering
A hypothesis of what you think will happen
The materials used for the experiment
What is the variable?
Step by step process of how the experiment was conducted or carried out
Images, graphs, charts, or other forms of displaying data
A conclusion about what happened that answers the question

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Question

Questions must be testable. That means the question has to be one that the participants can find an answer to and it must be through experimentation.

What do you want to know the answer to?

Hypothesis

A hypothesis is an educated guess. After the question has been formed, think of an answer to that question, what might happen?

Materials

Once you think you have everything you need to run the experiment, write them all down, everything you used. A simple bullet point list is all that is needed for the board.

Variable

The variable is what you are testing or changing in your experiment. Think about your question and how you are going to test it out. Another way to think about it is what will be different? Are you testing different foods, materials, locations, times of day, products, ect?

Process

Most experiments will require you to do the same process 2 or 3 times. If you are testing which paper towel holds the most water, you want to make sure you follow the same exact steps for each brand you test.