<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>my opinion: you can
a)redo your project on another topic,
b)not enter the science fair
c) (if this isn’t forbidden by the science fair’s rules) work with the seventh grader to make a really cool project</p>
<p>If this were me, I definitely would not go to the fair with the same project as a seventh grader, because it either makes you look dumb if theirs is better, or like a tool because yours is better and the seventh grader will most likely feel bad (my opinion)</p>
<p>As long as the title is different, no one is really going to notice. You are going to be placed apart and have a seperate set of judges because you’re in high school, so that shouldn’t be the concern. The real doubt is in the quality of your project given that you’re a junior and doing something that a middle schooler is doing.</p>