Science Fair Project

        Hello, people. How are you? So, you probably really don't care, but here's my experience with the science fair. Yeah, yeah. I know what you're probably thinking, Aw, come on! Why do we gotta read about the science fair when we already lived it? To be completely honest, I'm thinking the exact same thing. But if you really wanna know, ask and blame Mr. Sellers. So, this is the behind the scenes look at the science fair! Well, actually, my science fair project, but oh well. Details, details.

        So, before we start, I just want to let you know that I will completely understand if you get bored during this. If it were me, I'd kinda be bored, too. So don't worry. We all feel your pain. We understand. Just wanted to throw that out there. Okay, let's get started.

        The first thing I did for the science fair was to get forced to research topics. Let me tell you, it's not as easy as it sounds. I didn't really like anything that had to do with animals, 'cause most of them involved experimenting on them. But there was one, with frogs, that didn't involve that. You just had to examine the frogs. It was called Froggy Forecasting. Cool, huh? Just one problem. My mom doesn't like animals in her house. Whoop dee do.

        She told me I couldn't do it. Well, gosh. That ruined my plans completely. Now I had to look for another science fair project, and that didn't improve my mood. It took me two weeks to find Froggy Forecasting. Stinks, huh? Yeah. It stinks real bad. Well, the frogs would've, so I can kinda see her point. The only problem was, I had no idea what to do with my science fair project, because the Internet hadn't released any projects that looked or sounded good. To make up for rejecting my project, my mom offered to help find one.

        If I could, I wanted to do something with animals. The environment was my second choice. But alas, there was nothing on animals. Nothing. Well, nothing except experimenting on the animals, and that was something I refused to do. So we looked for environmental projects. Not as good as friendly animal science fair projects, but close. We looked through the Internet, but, like I said before, it didn't give us any good projects. So we looked through books. Not bad, I suppose. But no book yielded information. Except one. It was Science Fair Projects for Dummies. Yes, I used a science fair project from the book. No, that doesn't mean I'm a dummy.

         So, I looked through it, and I found two that looked promising. Can you power electricity with fruit was one. The other one is classified, just in cast I come back to Shreiner next year and do the science fair. We were going to use lemons:

        Limes:



        Grapefruits:



        And potatoes:



        So, I'd finally found a science fair project. Put my sweat, blood, and tears into it, too. Not even kidding. I accidentally cut myself, and it hurt. As if that wasn't bad enough, while I was cutting a lemon, the lemon slipped and landed right on my cut. Super dee duper.

        Eh? Oh, right. Back on track. So... where was I? Ah. Yes. Right. Okay. So, I found the science fair project, yada yada, and we resolved to get the supplies on that Saturday, because my father was going out of town, and my mother was booked in meetings. For the weekdays, I started on the introduction, hypothesis, and the materials. When Saturday arrived, we went to Wal-Mart—

       —and we bought the fruit first—lemons, limes, potatoes, and grapefruits. Then we went to Home Depot—

       —to buy copper nails, galvanized nails, wire, alligator wire, and a volt meter. After we got them, we went home, and decided to start on the science fair project tomorrow, so we could get to sleep. The next day, we stuck the galvanized and copper nail each into the fruits. Then we connected the similar fruits to each other. Like this—

        After we did that, we attached one alligator wire to each nail—galvanized and copper—and took the measure with the volt meter. Afterwards, I wrote down the procedure.

        Everyday for nine days we took the measure. We did nine because I wanted to do eight, and my mom wanted to do ten, so we did the number in-between. After nine days, we finished the data, conclusion, and the results. Then I glued it all to the trifold. I added pictures, and I was done. Then the science fair started, and unfortunatly, I was wrong in my hyopthesis— If grapefruits, lemons, limes, and potatoes can produce electricity, then it can power a light bulb, because light bulbs run on electricity. Furthermore, as time passes by, I can produce more elecricity, because the fruits are getting ripened, and have more acidity. The electricity that you can produce from high acidic fruits is more than that produced from the less acidic.

        I presented to the judges, and that was that. End of science fair. Goodbye. I know this wasn't the best, but it works. I was assigned it, and I finished. I can't honestly say I hope you enjoyed it, but alas, I'm obliged to. I hope you enjoyed! See ya later, and until next time!