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A science fair is generally a competition where contestants present their science project results in the form of a report, display board, and models that they have created. Science fairs allow students in grade schools and high schools to compete in science and/or technology activities.
Although writing assignments that take a long time to complete and require multiple drafts are fairly common in US schools, large projects in the sciences (other than science fairs) are rare. Science fairs also provide a mechanism for students with intense interest in the sciences to be paired with mentors from nearby colleges and universities, so that they can get access to instruction and equipment that the local schools could not provide.
In the United States, science fairs first became popular in the early 1950s, with the ISEF, then known as the National Science Fair. Interest in the sciences was at a new high after the world witnessed the use of the first two atomic weapons and the dawn of television. As the decade progressed, science stories in the news, such as Jonas Salk’s vaccine for polio and the launch of Sputnik, brought science fiction to reality and attracted increasing numbers of students to fairs.
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Harry brought a hurricane, trapped in a terrarium.
Ruth made a working model of a nuclear reactor.
There was a cure for the common cold.
Someone cloned his little brother and if the truth be told.
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's ever seen.
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's dreamed of.
Bobby built a baseball with an automatic pilot.
Terri took a tonic, grew herself a beard.
Jill found a way to turn garbage into chocolate.
Tommy came to class in a homemade rocket.
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's ever seen.
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's dreamed of.
We thought Elizabeth was absent, she made herself invisible.
Bubba tied helium balloons to a lawn chair,
Someone called the principal.
There was an old red hen that played tic-tac-toe,
A robot could beat you at dominoes.
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's ever seen.
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's dreamed of.
Well, my project was called HOW THINGS BURN. They put it in
The back in a dark corner of the room. On a poster, I taped some
Stuff I found around the house, and then next to it, what it looked
Like when it was all burned up, with a brief, descriptive paragraph
Of how bad it smelled while it was burning up. Cat hair smelled
The worst!
It was the finest, fanciest Science Fair anybody's ever seen.