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A science fair or engineering fair is an event hosted by a school that offers students the opportunity to experience the practices of science and engineering for themselves. In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards makes experiencing the practices of science and engineering one of the three pillars of science education.
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A science project is an educational activity for students involving experiments or construction of models in one of the science disciplines. Students may present their science project at a science fair, so they may also call it a science fair project. Science projects may be classified into four main types.
In 1985, a high school senior named Michael Harlan, whose only interest is muscle cars, reluctantly searches for something to turn in for his science class project final. While on what his bookworm friend Ellie Sawyer thinks is a date, Michael breaks into a government aircraft boneyard and stumbles upon a hidden fallout shelter .
Other projects like AgeGuess [8] focus on the senior demographics and enable the elderly to upload photos of themselves so the public can guess different ages. Lists of citizen science projects may change. For example, the Old Weather project website indicates that as of January 10, 2015, 51% of the logs were completed. [9]
Shell Game (short story) Philip K. Dick: Galaxy Science Fiction: 1954 Shikari in Galveston: S. M. Stirling: Worlds That Weren't: 2003 Shoggoths in Bloom: Elizabeth Bear: Asimov's Science Fiction: 2008 Shonku Ekai Aksho: Satyajit Ray: 1983 Silence Please: Arthur C. Clarke: Science Fantasy: 1950 Sister Planet: Poul Anderson: Satellite Science ...
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Robert Hooke, using a microscope, observes cells (1665).; Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms (1674–1676).; James Lind, publishes 'A Treatise of the Scurvy' which describes a controlled shipboard experiment using two identical populations but with only one variable, the consumption of citrus fruit (1753).