Fair Projects Research Articles

Key aspects of successful science fair projects

ABSTRACT Students’ projects are a valuable way to gain experience with real science and motivate them towards a career in science. However, a description of a successful project is missing. To identify the key aspects of successful projects, we analysed biological projects presented in the national round of the Students’ Professional Activities. Particular projects presented in 10 years were evaluated based on, eg, branch of biology, number of authors, cooperation with experts, use of statistics or laboratory versus fieldwork, and county (region of origin within Czechia). Several different variables (eg, statistical analysis or additional work suggestions) pointed to the influential role of the supervisor, under whose guidance projects are more likely to be successful. Additionaly, projects carried out in the laboratory likely ranked better than those carried out in the field. Furthermore, we traced the influence of supportive teachers and show a high influence of the region on projects’ ranking revealing a potential socioeconomic inequity in access to science in Czechia. The trend of doing more biology work in the laboratory is reflected in increasing the percentage of laboratory-based projects over the ten years. We present a summary of how to conduct successful science projects.

Modernist Relations France-England: Le Corbusier, Clive Entwistle and exhibition projects

In the context of the Modern Movement and influenced by Le Corbusier's design principles, this text explores the significance of the Swiss master's exhibition pavilion and fair projects. These projects, distinct from conventional architectural timelines, serve as evidence of the ideas shaping the project process, reflecting a compression of time and manifestos in physical form. Focusing on collaborations with English architect Clive Entwistle for exhibitions in England, particularly the 1939 Ideal Home Exhibition, the article delves into Le Corbusier's innovative designs, including a Ville Radieuse housing unit, a prefabricated house, and a luxury house. The text highlights Le Corbusier's strategic use of exhibition architecture as a platform to communicate his principles and theories, showcasing his work as a "laboratory" of projects. The article emphasizes the intertextuality of Le Corbusier's work, where ideas transcend projects, contexts, and meanings, fostering a dynamic relationship between theoretical reflections and practical experiences in pavilion and exhibition designs.

High school science fair: School location trends in student participation and experience.

The findings reported in this paper are based on surveys of U.S. high school students who registered and managed their science and engineering fair (SEF) projects through the online Scienteer website over the three years 2019/20, 2020/21, and 2021/22. Almost 2500 students completed surveys after finishing all their SEF competitions. We added a new question in 2019/20 to our on-going surveys asking the students whether their high school location was urban, suburban, or rural. We learned that overall, 74% of students participating in SEFs indicated that they were from suburban schools. Unexpectedly, very few SEF participants, less than 4%, indicated that they were from rural schools, even though national data show that more than 20% of high school students attend rural schools. Consistent with previous findings, Asian and Hispanic students indicated more successful SEF outcomes than Black and White students. However, whereas Asian students had the highest percentage of SEF participants from suburban vs. urban schools- 81% vs. 18%, Hispanic students had the most balanced representation of participants from suburban vs. urban schools- 55% vs. 39%. Differences in students' SEF experiences based on gender and ethnicity showed the same patterns regardless of school location. In the few items where we observed statistically significant (probability < .05) differences based on school location, students from suburban schools were marginally favored by only a few percentage points compared to students from urban schools. In conclusion, based on our surveys results most students participating in SEFs come from suburban schools, but students participating in SEFs and coming from urban schools have equivalent SEF experiences, and very few students participating in SEFs come from rural schools.

ExploreSound.org—An Acoustical Society of America Educator Resource

The Acoustical Society of America Committee on Education in Acoustics (ASA EdCom) developed ExploreSound.org for young people and educators who are interested in learning about sound and the scientists who study sound. This educational website consists of open access material generated by ASA as well as externally created content found to be beneficial to teachers, librarians, professors, and anyone else interested in acoustics education. To effectively communicate the technical content of acoustics and its importance, ExploreSound.org is divided into three main audiences: educators, K-12 students, and university students and acoustics topics can be explored in all technical areas represented in the ASA from Animal Bioacoustics to Underwater Acoustics. Educators and students can freely access and search all games, science fair projects, acoustician profiles, lesson plans, and more. ExploreSound.org supports acoustics education at all levels and in all areas of expertise. All acousticians, professional and student alike, can visit the site to participate in the long tradition of acoustics education.

Past geophysics science fair projects inspire new ideas in a high school STEM setting

During the 2020–2021 school year, a Bartlesville (Oklahoma, USA) High School student engaged in a science, technology, engineering, and math science fair project. It was inspired by a past science fair project published in The Leading Edge in November 2019. The goal of the project is to determine if a 3D seismic survey could be designed to provide even fold in the heart of an ocean-bottom node (OBN) seismic survey for converted waves with sources and receivers at different elevations. Much of the work involves the derivation of a generalized set of equations that predict the required bin size and expected fold for a given 3D OBN seismic survey design. Once the equations are established, a set of seismic survey design tests are conducted to determine if the equations are valid.

A Cost Allocation Decision Model for Air Pollution Control.

Air pollution control as the background of a cost allocation method is based on the Shapley value to determine the core stakeholder, so fair pollution control projects and the establishment of the atmospheric pollution of governance cost allocation model are put forward for the solution of air pollution coordinated by the government supervision and the atmospheric pollution control collaborative group. The results show that the cost allocation model of air pollution control based on Shapley value is more reasonable, and the cost of stakeholders is reduced to a certain extent, and the risk of the participants is reduced so that it maximizes social benefits.

Exhibition and fair art of Nizhyn in the context of ethnographic local lore of the Left Bank of Ukraine

The article examines the history and present of the exhibition and fair art of Nizhyn. The relevance of research of the fair movement as the need to restore historically old and new fair projects in the context of cultural and artistic creativity of the inhabitants of large cities, small towns and villages of the regions of Ukraine is argued. The emphasis is placed on exhibition and fair activities for domestic organizations and companies as one of the forms of presentation of their own creations for buyers and making interest of investors. It has been approved that holding exhibition and fair events is one of the effective types of advertising of own products in the world, an objective factor in the development of trade and economic relations, creative exchange, enrichment of cultural and artistic experience of communities in the economy, intercultural communications. In the context of ethnographic local lore of the Left Bank of Ukraine, the chronological, socio-cultural relationship of the traditions with the present in the Pokrovsky Fair of Nizhyn is characterized with its geographical convenience in the development of trade and economic relations of Chernihiv region. The nation-building and cultural-educative functions of the Cossack hundreds of the Nizhyn Regiment – participants of the Pokrovsky Fair were singled out: the time of the holiday of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, patroness of Ukrainian Cossacks, the numerous locations of the exhibition-fair products of the industrialists of Nizhyn, guests from different corners of Ukraine, festive and solemn events, competitions.The activity of the Kopytsia Charitable Foundation has been analyzed in the context of the research and support of young talents, participants of the Nizhyn Pokrovsky Fair. The concerts of amateur performances with the participation of children, youth, adult musical-instrumental, vocal, choral folklore groups, collectives, soloists of the city are presented in today’s fair events.

Tennessee Academy of Science Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, May 2020

Tennessee Academy of Science Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, May 2020

There are a lot of steps and sometimes you have to start all over: Independent science fair projects and science and engineering practices

There are a lot of steps and sometimes you have to start all over: Independent science fair projects and science and engineering practices

Experiences of Turkish Middle School Science Teachers’ First Science Fair Projects Coordination

This study aimed to reveal the experiences of science teachers conducting a science fair project for the first time. The research used quantitative data based on an online assessment survey for science fair projects. There are twenty-one questions (one of them is open-ended, the others are Likert type) developed by the researcher. The questionnaire was shared with science teachers on the science fair, 4006 science fairs, Tübitak science fairs themed social media pages between June and October 2018. 244 coordinator science teachers marked the survey. The data obtained from the questionnaire was presented in a tabular form by deducting % and frequencies. On the other hand, the last open-ended questions were analyzed by using content analysis. Based on these results, science teachers, who carried out the fair coordinator for the first time and to be able to do it again have some expectations of practicing positive experiences such as the students should gain scientific skills, the fair should be carried out in cooperation, the responsibilities were shared in a balanced way in the school, the school administrators should both support and help the process, the advisors should take ownership of the job, be appreciated by stakeholders with awards, etc. However, this first experience posed a sufficiently unexpected result at least for some of them.

IPHC emittance-meters: design and development

The Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) of Strasbourg, which celebrates its 15th year in 2021, is composed of four departments. Each of these departments comes from a different scientific horizon such as eco-physiology, chemistry, subatomic research and medical imaging. IPHC was created with the ambition of having different competences to develop high-level multidisciplinary programs with the basis of scientific instrumentation. Beam diagnostics is one of the main fields that has been intensively investigated during all these years within the team of the Instrumentation of Accelerators. This paper focuses on one of its major achievements, the Allison emittance-meter, developed in the framework of SPIRAL2, MYRRHA and FAIR projects.

Jeannine Cavender-Bares.

Jeannine Cavender-Bares.

Determining the Centrality of a Nuclear Collision Using a Hadron Calorimeter

The determination of the centrality of nuclear collision or the value of the impact parameter of heavy nuclei is of great importance for the analysis of all experimental data and comparison with theory. One method is to measure the number of spectators using a hadron calorimeter located at a small angle to the nuclear beam. It is shown that with an achievable resolution of the hadron calorimeter in energy, the accuracy of determining the impact parameter is insufficient for using the calorimeter in the MPD / NICA and CBM / FAIR projects. The error reaches 35 % at a beam energy of 2.5 GeV even for peripheral collisions. Secondary processes during the passage of spectators through the nucleus give an additional contribution to the error for central collisions and at medium centralities.

ROLE OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON PERFORMANCE OF FAIRTRADE PREMIUM PROJECTS IN KENYA

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the role of total quality management on the performance of fair trade premium projects with particular reference to Flamingo Horticulture Limited (herein referred to as the company or organization).&#x0D; Methodology: The target population for this research comprised of the employees, the management and the fair trade premium committee of the Flamingo Horticulture Limited. The study employed descriptive research design. A census sampling was carried out and the sample size was 46. Survey method was used to solicit the information. The researcher used a questionnaire to collect primary data which was analyzed using qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques then presented in tables. Data collected will be both quantitative and qualitative. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire was enhanced by carrying out a pilot study prior to data collection. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics by aid of Statistical package for social scientists (SPSS). The results were presented in form of Tables.&#x0D; Results: The studies found that quality management planning, customer focus and application of Quality Management planning approaches such as auditing, continuous improvement, monitoring &amp; evaluation have positive effect on performance of fairtrade premium projects. Correlation analysis showed that there were positive and significant correlations between performance of Fairtrade premium projects in Kenya and all independent variables (quality management planning, r=0.537, p&lt;0.05; customer focus, r=0.542, p&lt;0.05; leadership qualities, r=0.476, p&lt;0.05 and, QMS approaches, r=0.452, p&lt;0.05).&#x0D; Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that Fairtrade organizations should integrate quality management planning in their overall planning process to ensure identification of risks, to ensure that errors are eliminated throughout the operational process and products and services are produced at an optimal quality that can satisfy all stakeholders. Adoption of quality management will enable the leaders to use their personal values, ethics, and commitment to the organization’s vision and mission, passionate to energize and create a synergy in teams; heading towards accomplishment of organizational goals. With high level of quality improvement quality management practices and leadership will be higher since leadership qualities are associated with successful quality improvement.

Parental Helping with Science Fair Projects: a Case Study

Considering the number of students who participate in them each year, science fairs are an under-researched area of science education. As part of a broader research agenda examining and conceptualizing science fairs, in this study we interviewed parents who had children who had participated in science fairs and were now in university. Parents discussed their role in working with their children, what understandings of science were held and were developed through these activities, and how they perceived the overall science fair experience that their child (or children) had. Using three representative cases, from a phenomenological perspective, we describe assistance ranging from providing some technical support and encouragement to a parent who hired graphic designers to create the poster for the science fair. Implications of these interviews may be useful for schools and science fair organizers/judges.

Science Fair Was One of the Highlights of My Middle School Life: Using Science Fair to Develop NGSS Practices

This article illustrates how a seventh-grade life science unit connects to the Science and Engineering Practices and Nature of Science in the Next Generation Science Standards and used science fair projects as a context for students to solve problems and understand how authentic science is done. We outline how student interests drive the development and presentation of science fair projects and discuss each component of a science fair project to reflect the practices and nature of science and how we support students along the way. The article includes images of students and of their work for science fair projects.

Geophysics in the high school STEM setting

In 2014, Bartlesville High School in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA, started an advanced math applications class as part of its new science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program. Selected exploration geophysics topics were incorporated as part of the class. Four of the class students in the 2017–2018 school year completed independent study of various topics in seismic acquisition design for science fair projects. The contents of this paper are the findings of those science fair projects. Contents include generating evenly distributed fold for compressional wave surveys (P-P), evenly distributed fold for converted-wave surveys (P-S), evenly distributed fold for ocean-bottom-cable/seismometer surveys (P-P), and offset/depth relations for validity of using the asymptotic approximation for converted-wave surveys (P-S).

A model for the elaboration of fair divisional projects in inheritance disputes

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a method to support the definition of efficient and fair divisional projects in particularly complex cases concerning inheritance disputes.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the approach involves an appraisal of the market value of the assets, along with an analysis of the respective conditions of concrete divisibility; then, two mathematical models have been developed for the assignment of the assets to the subjects involved in the divisional projects. The logic underlying of both models has been translated into mathematical algorithms that allow for the minimization of the monetary compensations resulting from the differences between the legal right shares and the actual portions to be attributed to them.FindingsBoth models have been developed through mathematical formulas that can be easily implemented by using an appropriate calculation software. They can be used in particularly complex inheritance divisions, in which the deceased’s assets are numerous and there are several heirs with similar or different legal right shares.Originality/valueThe methodology is useful in the disputes that could arise in hereditary successions. The fundamental value is that the models could support the definition of the best solution in particularly complex situations, characterized by a large number of assets to be assigned and/or the existence of “preferential” constraints for the assignment of the assets.

Status of Manufacturing and Testing of Superconducting Magnets for NICA and FAIR Projects

Nuclotron-based ion collider facility (NICA) is an international project-accelerator collider complex under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. The facility is aimed at providing collider experiments with heavy ions up to gold in the center of mass energy from 4 to 11 GeV/u and an average luminosity up to 1·1027 cm−2·s−1 for Au79+. Collision experiments with polarized deuterons and protons are also foreseen. The facility includes two injector chains, a new superconducting booster synchrotron, the existing 6 AGeV superconducting synchrotron Nuclotron, and a new superconducting collider consisting of two rings, each 503 m in circumference. The planned FAIR synchrotron SIS100 has to deliver high intensity beams for the FAIR project at GSI, Darmstadt. This machine will use fast-cycling 4 T/s magnets with a magnetic field up to 2 T. The NICA booster synchrotron, the NICA collider, and the heavy ion synchrotron SIS100 are based on iron-dominated “window frame”—type magnets with a hollow superconductor winding analogous to the Nuclotron magnet. The status on the manufacturing and testing of the NICA magnets and the SIS100 superconducting quadrupole and corrector magnets are discussed.

Authentic science with citizen science and student‐driven science fair projects

AbstractThis study reports on the process and development of middle school science fair projects inspired by a summer science program of citizen science monitoring (Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project) with their classroom teacher. We gathered and analyzed qualitative data (interviews, focus groups, and project boards). Our analysis revealed three key findings: (1) the process of developing and completing a student‐driven investigation for a science fair engages students in the scientific practices envisioned by the Next Generation Science Standards, (2) citizen science served as a springboard for the development of authentic participation in science, and (3) there are dual roles of a teacher as both mentor and master. Our findings have important implications for science education and student science fairs.