TBD

Abstract

I am doing something a little different with this TBD. Instead of chatting about whatever happens to be on my mind when I sit down to write, I am instead providing an interesting proposal — developed by Lee Flint — on the possibility of the International System Safety Society (ISSC) (or better yet, a chapter) becoming involved in local science fairs. This idea sprang from some observations I made while assisting the Bay Area Chapter of the ISSS judge a science fair in San Jose, California. I was concerned that we judged the projects based on system safety criteria, without forewarning participants or giving them any materials that might assist them in including system safety considerations in these projects or presentations. We did our best to find projects that included something akin to system safety considerations, but there certainly didn’t seem to be any pre-planning on the part of participants.