Holy jeezus, are we talking about a baseball bat or a science fair display?
We even held a science fair at the White House, where I met a young woman named Amy Chyao.
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If the last goal you set for yourself involved a science fair project in the seventh grade, you might be an underachiever.
For example, a high school student who won a science fair made big money on Quirky for proposing a flexible power strip.
There were 4 older ladies running the show and 3 voting booths that are similar to a science fair project in how they fold up.
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For the money paid, the embattled Detroit schools (those are city kids celebrating with the car at right) could send 4, 500 scholars to compete in a science fair.
"The first 40 years of IT has been a science fair project, " says Charlie S. Feld, the wizard hired by Jordan to help remake EDS and its services.
The tale of the tiny lunar pebbles' restoration to the 49th state includes an arson's fire, a teenager's theft, a science fair photo and a ship's captain from a reality TV show.
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"It was like a bad science-fair project, " she says.
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And it is a reason that this Administration has committed to a White House science fair this year, to showcase some of the more creative and sophisticated approaches to problem solving being taken by students across the country.
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The Consumer Electronics Show may be, to quote Stephen Colbert, a "high school science fair on crank, " but it's nirvana for gadget geeks.
As a result, the U.S. increasingly looks like a top-notch science fair to companies hoping to get into this slow-moving, but potentially massive, market.
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The Google Science Fair began in 2011 as a way to spur a love of science among teens and, just possibly, spark a few breakthroughs for science as a whole.
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The project won a gold medal at the school science fair, and Ferguson realized she cared more about the cosmos than chamber music.
The group of semi-finalists will then be narrowed down to 15 finalists who will be flown to Google headquarters in California for a brick-and-mortar science fair to be held on July 11.
If you hesitate before signing on to the idea of imported science, it could be because you are only a fair-weather believer in free trade.
There has been a fair amount of talk about congressional hearings looking into climate science.
Last year, Brittany Wenger, a 17-year old student from Florida, won the Google Global Science Fair grand prize.
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And for this science fair, at the age of 17, she discovered a promising new way to improve treatment for ovarian cancer -- at 17.
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But it would have added something to have examined more systematically the differences between cases where the science is clear (ozone after 1987) and where there was a fair amount of hype (forest death through acid rain).
To be fair, creating a list like this is at best a very inexact science.
It's not fair to penalize schools like MIT that put a heavy emphasis on basic science, Litan says, but the results still indicate universities "are highly suboptimal" at transforming ideas into businesses.
Even if you did not understand a word - and, to be fair, it was aimed at real students of science - it was hard to dislike what Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and TV presenter describes as "the undiluted geekiness of it".
They also employ algorithms to determine the fair value of each listed property, lending some rigor to a once-inexact science.
Han's demo was one of a breathtaking array of ideas and technology on exhibition two weeks ago at an invitation-only science fair salon called "Gadgetoff, " held at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
Your job as President is to think about how do we set up a equitable tax system so that everybody is paying their fair share that allows us then to invest in science and technology and infrastructure, all of which are going to help us grow.
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