How to Consistently Win Science Fairs with Award Winning Science Projects

Every year hundreds of thousands of students from elementary school through college search for award winning science projects. Many are overwhelmed by topic choices and pressure to select something that will be unique, interesting and have some sort of real scientific value. When selecting a science project, students, teachers and parents need to segregate projects that are only commercially appealing from those that are both commercially and scientifically appealing.

What is Scientifically Appealing?

All award winning science projects have one thing in common, scientific value. Scientific value is created by following the scientific method, by identifying key objectives, by demonstrating your proficiency in applying scientific concepts to your project's topic and by collecting and analyzing data correctly. Scientific value is also earned by your data interpretation and conclusions. To earn the highest score possible for your science project you will need to focus on the quality of these elements.

What is Commercially Appealing?

At the school level, science fair judges are going to be more forgiving with their scores. They will mostly be looking at your project's scientific value. However, if you want to progress on to your state and national science fairs, then you will need to design a project that not only has scientific appeal, but that also has commercial appeal.

The commercial appeal of award winning science projects are based most only two things, (1) the topic of the science project and (2) the attractiveness of your final presentation.

In order to earn the most points possible for commercial appeal, your project's topic will need to be interesting, unique and it will need to be relevant to modern concerns. For example, renewable or alternative energy science fair projects are commercially valuable projects right now.

The second commercial element that you will want to focus a lot of your energy on is your project's final presentation. You will want to create a visually interesting presentation that recaps each of the steps of the scientific method that you went through with your science project. You will want to use photographs, drawings, a variety of colors and easy to read lettering. Depending on the rules of the science fair that you are entering you may also want to add multi-media elements to your final presentation as well.

Award Winning Science Projects

Award winning science projects win awards because they are the cream of the crop. In order to rise to the top of the science fair entries you need to make sure that your entry is both scientifically and commercially appealing. The young scientists that consistently place high in science fairs understand how to score high in all of the areas that are judged. Follow their lead and you too will be able to win awards with your science fair project.