I need advice!!

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<p>I'm a junior in high school and I'm taking chemistry honors. In this class we have to do an experiment but we don't have to enter the science fair. Well in the beginning of the year I asked my chem teacher for help on deciding what to do it on and he suggest fishing knots so that's what I did. Well he also gave the same idea to his daughter who's in SEVENTH grade so she's doing the exact same experiment as me and entering the local science fair.</p>

<p>The problem is I wanted to enter the science fair even though it's not required but his seventh grade daughter will enter it with the same project so now I'm thinking that I shouldn't enter it.</p>

<p>What do you guys think I should do?</p>

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<p>Wouldn’t you be in a different age group than the teacher’s daughter? Can your project be more in depth or have a different hypothesis?</p>

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<p>Hers is little bit different because she only uses one of the same knots but she built the same appartus as me to test the knots.</p>

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<p>I used to judge Science Fair, and every year there would be cases where kids have similar projects. But each kid states their hypothesis a little differently, does their experiment a little differently, notices different variations in their measured data, analyzes their results in their own way, comes up with their personal conclusion, and adds their own flair to their presentation.</p>

<p>As a judge, it’s fun and interesting to see how multiple kids doing essentially the “same” experiment end up presenting such totally different Sci Fair projects.</p>

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