Next, choose a science project topic, and discuss your choice with your science teacher, science club adviser, or hobby counselor. Especially if this is your first attempt, choose a topic which can be investigated with materials and equipment available to you at school or at home, and which can be finished by mid-February. Also, allocate definite times—particularly on weekends and holidays—when you will work on your project. (Remember that exams and term papers will probably keep you very busy in late January and early February.) Third, execute your project, keeping careful notes and consulting your project counselor from time to time. Then draft your Project Report, discuss it with your counselor, revise and edit it as necessary, and get it typed in final form. Also verify the date your local science fair opens. Fourth, plan your exhibit content, design and build your exhibit structure, select your exhibit components and draft your text, and make trial layouts until you arrive at the best possible design, including color. Prepare your color backgrounds, letter your text, and install text, components, and lighting. Get your handout brochure mimeographed. Fifth, enter local science fair competition. If you don’t win, find out why by comparing your project and your exhibit with the winners’, and by discussing it with your parents, classmates, teachers, judges, and viewers. If you do win, attempt to understand what made your exhibit better than the others. Finally, continue reading and thinking about your basic project topic, so that next year you will know whether you want to continue to work on the same topic or to shift your interest to another field. Above all, have fun, and GOOD LUCK! APPENDIX I NUCLEAR SCIENCE PROJECT IDEAS The following projects related to nuclear science were exhibited at the National Science Fair-International from 1950 through 1963. General and Theoretical Topics