Not welcome at the fair. PHOTO CREDIT: Meneer Zjeroen http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuskyn/ / CC BY 2.0
Posted on 02/16/2010 1:11:45 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hi Folks! Here’s the latest — a brilliant Chinese plot to crush America’s lead in science and technology!
Oh wait. Seems it is just one Colorado school’s list of science fair rules. Thanks, reader Bree, for sending it in. The list:
For safety: Project displays and posters may NOT contain any of the following:
NO: Organisms (living or dead).
NO: Microbial cultures/fungi/molds/bacteria/parasites.
NO: Plants in Soil.
NO: Chemicals.
NO: Flammable Substances.
So I guess if you are doing a science experiment involving the effect of dust on a desk, you’re ok. But beyond that, it gets very tricky. And, worse, interesting. And so it is verboten. All for the safety of the kids, of course. — Lenore
Not welcome at the fair. PHOTO CREDIT: Meneer Zjeroen http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuskyn/ / CC BY 2.0
Here is the guidebook (6 pp or so) http://bvsd.org/tag/Documents/2008sciencefairelemhandbook.pdf
No paper or poster board?
The winner will probably be a brief treatise on etching glass....etched in glass.
What does that leave? Everything you can touch is made from “chemicals”.
If I had followed those rules as a child, I would not have had any toys at all.
Under these guidelines, even the children are banned.
I guess that paper-mache will be the order of the day for the oh so special projects of starwars, quantum-mechanics and nano-tech; and everyone gets a ribbon. Must be the same crowd that can not handle peanut butter and citrus in public.
You just take pictures of what you did and show the pictures. Its not that big a deal
Computer simulations of Global Warming, however, are still considered solid science.
How to win this science fair ...make posters about the perils of global warming.
“How to win this science fair ...make posters about the perils of global warming.”
Sorry can’t - posters are flamable, as are pictures of posters.
This just means that all kids projects are on an even footing and everyone will win, no matter how long they babble.
Someone should check to see which flavor of math this school teaches: fuzzy, Egyptian, or Mayan.
Guess that leaves global warming as the most likely topic.
How about a dissertation about how God is going to make it snow in DC until Al Gore says "Uncle"
I doubt it would win but it could be fun
Actually, the kiddo that did that would be expelled for hate speech, intolerance, racism, homophobia, and heresy against the Goracle.
Paper mache? That stuff is deadly. It is flammable and they may get a paper cut. :)
Look on a homeschool site. You will find what you are looking for.
Thank you, my point exactly; noting is safe in a liberalistic nanny state of cowards when it has to be approved by a bitchaucracy.
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