Where Do I Start?
WHAT IS A SCIENCE FAIR?
It is an exciting display of student science experiments. We also display working models and demonstrations, collections of scientific objects, scientific reports, and scientific inventions.
WHO CAN ENTER?
All students in grades K-8 may enter the Interior Alaska Science Fair if they have been invited to do so by their school's science fair coordinator. Each Fairbanks school is allotted a small number of slots to display their school's most noteworthy projects. The coordinator from each school will make the decision as to which projects will be invited to enter the Interior Alaska Science Fair and supply the needed paperwork and entry forms. As space is limited, no projects will be displayed unless first having participated in a school science fair, though a few spots are reserved for homeschool students and such who do not have school science fairs to enter.
WHAT COULD YOU EXPLORE?
A student may design a project around any scientific or mathematical topic. Students may enter a project in any one of these categories: Human Biology; Astronomy/Space Science; Animals; Plants; Earth Science; Physics; Chemistry; Mathematics; Consumer Science; Wildlife /Environment; Microbiology; Communications/Electronics; and Engineering.
HOW DO YOU BEGIN?
Any research starts with exploration. Examine a scientific material or object that interests you. While you are working with the material, many questions will come into your mind. If you find a question for which you can run a test to find an answer, you have the beginning of a science project. For example: While playing with a bubble solution, you notice that the colors of the bubble change just before it pops. You might ask yourself if the bubble always pops when the color changes in that way. Design your experiment so that you can answer the question.