About science research competition

Paying for College
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<p>I have read the science research projects that were awarded in Siemens competition and Intel competition and they were all AMAZING. Kids wrote about molecular biology stuff that you would only investigate in college, and even the material they used left me awestruck.<br>
Where do they get all that material from? Who would let them conduct independent research in their labs?</p>

<p>I have a hard time that what they did were original research projects (knowledge expanding research), since they are still in high school.<br>
Does anyone know if they are actually doing innovative research, or they are basically paraphrasing other research projects already completed in an innovative way?</p>

<p>I'm completely clueless on this, so any information on those science competitions are more than welcome.
Thanks.</p>

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<p>What a lot of people do is they contact a researcher, and ask to work in their lab. The researcher will give the student a project to work on, and will help them through the research process. So yes, they are doing original research, but most likely they didn't think of the project all by themselves.</p>

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<p>Thanks for clarifying it to me. Even grad students need the guidance of a Professor to start their PhD thesis...</p>