SCIENCE PROJECTS, EXHIBITS, AND FAIRS 1 Science Projects 1 Project Exhibits 2 Science Fairs 2 YOUR SCIENCE PROJECT 4 Choosing the Topic 4 Where to Get Help 8 Documenting Your Work 9 EXHIBITING YOUR SCIENCE PROJECT 11 Planning the Content of Your Exhibit 11 How Exhibits Are Judged 12 Designing Your Exhibit 16 About Color 25 Completing Your Exhibit 27 COMPETITION AND ITS REWARDS 30 QUO VADIS? 34 APPENDIX I—NUCLEAR SCIENCE PROJECT IDEAS 37 APPENDIX II—NUCLEAR ENERGY-RELATED INVESTIGATIONS AND APPLICATIONS 47 APPENDIX III—SUGGESTED REFERENCES 48 APPENDIX IV—WORKING WITH RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS 50 APPENDIX V—SUPPLIERS OF RADIOISOTOPES 51 APPENDIX VI—INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FAIR RULES 52 United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Technical Information Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-65589 1968 [Illustration: Interviews help AEC Special Awards judges identify the most outstanding nuclear-related exhibits entered in each National Science Fair-International. Here, Elizabeth Winstead of Jacksonville, Florida, explains her irradiated fruit flies to Dr. Paul W. McDaniel, AEC Director of Research and a Special Awards judge at the 1963 national fair, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Selected as one of the 10 winners, Miss Winstead and her science teacher spent a week at the Commission’s Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.]