The allure of the science fair is not only that you get to experiment with varying degrees of success you also have the opportunity to see how other people blend science and creativity to accomplish something innovative, to test the boundaries of the unknown.Īs I read Caitlin Horrocks’s This Is Not Your City, I could not help but think about a science fair and this idea of being able to experience a wide range of experiments at the same time, in the same place, and how overwhelming that can be. My experiments were never that inspiring but I certainly thought they were-volcanoes erupting with the magical properties of food coloring, baking soda, and vinegar, a suspension bridge made out of balsa wood and kite string that could hold a heavy brick, a microscope set up with a dark red smear of my blood on a carefully prepared slide-simple experiments that made me feel like I had accomplished something innovative, even in the face of the far bolder experiments around me. ![]() ![]() When I was a kid, I loved participating in my school’s science fair each year even though I did not necessarily have any aptitude for the scientific.
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