<p>I'm a rising junior and I would really want to do something that involves original research next year. I'm really good at math and pretty much all sciences and would love to do some sort of science fair type of thing next year (one where you actually do research and write, besides science olympiad where you just memorize stuff). My school doesn't offer anything like this so I've tried googling around but there's just so much information I just don't know where to start, there's STS, a local ISEF qualifier, Google science fair, Siemens and others. Does anyone have any advice on what I should do? I'm in eastern Massachusetts if that helps.</p>
<p>Bump…does anyone have any advice for this?</p>
<p>I’m in a similar boat, and I’m just doing a lab internship this summer, nothing much. Going to do research at the same lab next year, though!</p>
<p>@sunsh0wers that’s really cool, how does one go about getting an internship at a lab?</p>
<p>I just contacted the person I was interested in working with. 
(Actually, I emailed 3 of them, but only 1 replied hahah) I’m not sure if it’s too late now (it took a few days for him to get back to me and ~ two weeks to process all my forms), but you can always try seeing if you can do something similar this summer to get experience before actually researching next year?</p>
<p>How do you even decide who you can work with? I don’t have any contacts in labs or universities.</p>
<p>You don’t have to have any contacts! Just look up a college/university around you and find some faculty that work in the area that you’re interested in after you think of what you want to research. Then contact them and go from there! It takes some effort to track people down though haha but don’t get discouraged.</p>
<p>OK thanks, I will definitely see what I can do this and next summer.</p>