Ok so I was trying to find a research opportunity in computer science over the summer. I emailed this professor at a local university and fortunately he let me work in his lab.
Unfortunately, I don’t feel like what I am doing is “research”. Basically I am creating a robot straight from this design that we found from the internet with some slight modifications and will eventually be seeing the benefits and possibilities of using it in education.
Is this even research? I don’t feel like I am doing something new. I am having a lot of fun with it, and I am learning a ton but I feel like I am not doing actual research. I feel like it’s not something I would enter in a science fair or anything. I don’t really know what I’m doing. I feel like it’s mainly because there’s nothing new about the robot we’re building and that it’s basically a copy of what we found on the internet. Should I talk to my professor about this?Would it be completely out of place for me to enter “this”, whatever “this” is, into isef or siemens or sts or some similar science fair?
