National Science Fair Research Articles

Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience

Scientific creativity plays a crucial role in formulating innovative solutions to complex scientific problems. This study explored the development and performance of scientific creativity among winners of a national science fair (NSF) through the perspective of resilience. The study involved 34 participants from grades 7 and 8 (comprising 15 boys and 19 girls) who were recognized with awards at the NSF. Through semi-structured interviews, this study identifies how resilience support contributes to students overcoming challenges and elevating their performance in scientific creativity. The major findings derived from quantitative content analysis are as follows: (1) Project-based learning can be an effective approach for developing resilience and scientific creativity. (2) A set of resilience support and risk factors to scientific creativity emerged, encompassing the influence of schools, teachers, peers, family, and personal traits in transforming challenges into resilience assets. (3) Considerable similarities in self-perceptions of scientific creativity and resilience processes during the NSF were noted between boys and girls. However, girls experienced more emotional struggles, yet maintained a more positive attitude in coping with negative emotions. This study offers comprehensive insights and recommends specific strategies for science education aimed at fortifying resilience and scientific creativity among adolescent students.

50 anos da I Feira Nacional de Ciências (1969) no Brasil

Os 50 anos da I Feira Nacional de Ciência no Brasil, vídeo produzido pelo Instituto Nacional de Comunicação Pública da Ciência e Tecnologia 
 
 Em 2019, comemoramos os 50 anos da primeira Feira Nacional de Ciências no Brasil. Realizada no Pavilhão de São Cristóvão, no Rio de Janeiro, em setembro de 1969, o evento contou com a apresentação de trabalhos de alunos oriundos de quase todos os estados brasileiros, alta frequência de público visitante e ampla cobertura jornalística. O Ministério da Educação e a Secretaria de Ciência e Tecnologia do então Estado da Guanabara coordenaram o evento, com parcerias e patrocínios públicos e privados. Neste artigo, realizamos uma análise de 174 matérias de jornais que noticiaram a Feira na época, identificadas a partir de uma busca na Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional e em acervos digitais de jornais de grande circulação. Com base nesse material, trazemos informações sobre a organização, o patrocínio, os antecedentes e a realização da Feira, bem como as principais e mais recorrentes temáticas abordadas na cobertura jornalística.

Connectivity Study between National Science Curriculum and Scientific Inquiry Activity through Analysis of Entries of the National Science Fair

Connectivity Study between National Science Curriculum and Scientific Inquiry Activity through Analysis of Entries of the National Science Fair

Factors Affecting the Implementation of Science Investigatory Projects and Its Implications to the National Science and Technology Fair

Factors Affecting the Implementation of Science Investigatory Projects and Its Implications to the National Science and Technology Fair

Analysis of the Characteristics of High School Student Research Activities - Focused on the Prize-Winning Works in the Life Science Field of National Science Fair -

Analysis of the Characteristics of High School Student Research Activities - Focused on the Prize-Winning Works in the Life Science Field of National Science Fair -

National Science Festival of Thailand: historical roots, current activities and future plans of the National Science Fair

Thailand’s National Science Fair is an annual two-week event held to promote science, encourage learning and prove that science is for everyone. Derived from the first ‘Thai National Science Day’ in 1982, the fair now hosts over 1 million visitors, with exhibits from over 50 national and international companies and institutions from governmental, educational and commercial sectors. Whilst the fair is normally held in Bangkok the outreach program holds mini fairs for 32 Universities and numerous schools across the nation for local participation in science week. This paper discusses the past, present and future of the fair, incorporating existing evaluation findings and identified key challenges.

Sources of Anxiety and the Meaning of Participation in/for Science Fairs: A Canadian Case

AbstractAlthough anxiety is a significant emotional element of formal school science, little is known about how anxiety is originated and managed in the context of science fairs. The purpose of the present study was to investigate how a group of students in Grades 7 to 12 discursively (re)produce anxiety and its management from the perspective of their participation in a national science fair competition in Canada. Based on the analysis of participant's talk during a focus group interview, our findings suggest that performance anxiety is an emotion inherent to participation in all stages of the event: from choosing a project to the administration of time, performing in front of an audience, and gaining public recognition. In this context, recurring participation emerges as an effective strategy for coping with this feeling. In exploring the ways that academically successful science students talk about how anxiety is generated and regulated, we advance knowledge about science fair participation and contrib...

Categorizing and Fixing Variables on Entrepreneurial Intention through Qualitative Research

Many policies and regulations have been made by Indonesian Government to enhance the quality of graduates in higher education. Numerous programs have been launched to build the mentality and business awareness of university students such as National Science Fair (PIMNAS), Student Entrepreneur Program (PMW), Student Creativity Program (PKM), Business Incubation Program and many other programs that can enhance the propensity of the students to start up a business. However, there are only 17% of the graduates who are willing to become entrepreneurs each year. This indicates that students have a lack of intentions to become entrepreneurs. However, there is less research and literature to support the argument that the students do not have entrepreneurial intention. In order to explore the entrepreneurial intention among the Indonesian students graduating universities and business schools from a qualitative study was conducted. The methodology used to develop an appropriate variable for entrepreneurial intention is focused group discussion (FGD), case analysis, interviews and Delphi technique measures the student's entrepreneurial intention. There are 20 experts were willing to take part in this study and the study identified 4 factors that eventually suit the student desire to deal with entrepreneurship. This study gives a valuable contribution to the higher education institutions, to orient the students to become entrepreneurs through right grooming by ensuring better entrepreneurship program as well as the curriculum.

Case Analysis of International Science and Engineering Fair for Research Direction of the National Science Fair

Case Analysis of International Science and Engineering Fair for Research Direction of the National Science Fair

A National Science Fair: Exhibiting support for the knowledge economy

Student‐directed, open‐ended scientific investigations and invention projects may serve to deepen and broaden students’ scientific and technological literacy, and, in so doing, enable them to succeed in democracies greatly affected by processes and products of science and technology. Science fairs, events at which student‐led projects are evaluated and celebrated, could contribute to such positive personal and social outcomes. Qualitative data drawn from a national science fair over succeeding years indicate (after analyses of largely qualitative data, using constant comparative methods) that, apart from positive outcomes regarding science literacy, there may be some significant issues about the fair that warrant critical review. It is apparent from these studies that there are issues of access, image, and recruitment associated with the fair. Qualification for participation in the fair appears to favour students from advantaged, resource‐rich backgrounds. Although these students do benefit in a number of ways from the fair experience, it is apparent that science fairs also greatly benefit sponsors—who can, in a sense, use science fairs for promotional and recruitment purposes. These findings and claims raised, for us, some important questions possibly having implications for science education, and for society more generally.

The Use of Animals in National High School Student Science Fair Projects in the United States

Science fair projects can provide a sound opportunity to teach students the value of scientific methodology without relying on the routine and unnecessary use of animals. Unfortunately, students are often encouraged to use animals in an expendable manner that both duplicates previous experiments and neglects the opportunity to "think outside the box" in order to generate new hypotheses/theories about human health, physiological processes or basic biological concepts. Although at least one national science fair sponsor has changed its policy regarding students' utilisation of vertebrate animals, others continue to encourage the more traditional in vivo experimental projects. This paper will review the guidelines of two major national science fairs in the USA; types of projects conducted that involve animals; numbers of animals involved; interview responses by some student finalists who used vertebrates in their projects; successful initiatives by animal advocates in the USA to eliminate the use of animals in science fairs; and potential areas of outreach to science educators, science fair sponsors, high schools and students.

Nurturing New Scientists

> IT IS A pleasure once again to attend National Science Fair and have an opportunity to speak to young people who, I think, truly represent the new wave of future. Winston Churchill once said: Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Such is not case with young men and women here this evening. You are ones in new generation who will be actively seeking truth-many truths-and when you find them I'm sure you will also be doing your share in seeing that they are directed toward serving society. We are proud of you and we are putting a great deal of faith in you. I want to talk with you tonight in a serious way about what it means to be a scientist. I know from fact that you are here that many of you must have given some thought to this question. The decision to become a scientist is for anyone a commitment which he ought to think about carefully. For young people of your age there are many possible avenues into future-many, many paths you might take toward realization of your dreams and ambitions and science is one of noblest and most rewarding of these in our time. It was only a century or two ago that modern science became an organized study of natural phenomena deduced from experimental evidence. Since that time applied science and invention have influenced life of individual, development of industry, evolution of political societies and course of history. In past few decades we have seen a great increase in impact of science on our society owing to a new factor which was not previously present. This new factor is systematic and intensive accumulation of new scientific knowledge-the result of basic or fundamental scientific research. We now know that search for new knowledge, if not restricted to subjects of foreseeable and immediate practical importance, results in -an unexpected increase in our understanding of physical or biological phenomena.

Psychology and the National Science Fair.

Psychology and the National Science Fair.

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National Science Fair

National Science Fair Awards

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Budding Scientists Win Awards at National Science Fair

Budding Scientists Win Awards at National Science Fair

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Models Depicting Some Groups of Movements*

School Science and MathematicsVolume 58, Issue 8 p. 585-592 Models Depicting Some Groups of Movements* Lindsay L. Hess, Bozeman Senior H. S., Bozeman, MontanaSearch for more papers by this author Lindsay L. Hess, Bozeman Senior H. S., Bozeman, MontanaSearch for more papers by this author First published: November 1958 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8594.1958.tb08078.x * Editor's Note: This article was prepared by a high-school student and is part of a project prepared for the District and National Science Fairs. Mr. Hess received a Fourth Place Rating on his project at the National Science Fair in Flint, Michigan in May 1958. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume58, Issue8November 1958Pages 585-592 RelatedInformation

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