<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I would really like to do some sort of research and enter it in the Intel Science Fair. How much background knowledge on a subject will I need? I don't feel very confident in my ability to gain such information independently. Should I take some courses at a local college or just go get a mentor?</p>
<p>I feel like some sort of research project would help me get into MIT, my first choice, but I have no idea how to begin. If anyone has done this before, please help me out!</p>
<p>“but I have no idea how to begin”</p>
<p>That’s problematic. I hate to ask – but have you started with Intel itself?
[Intel</a> International Science and Engineering Fair](<a href=“Newsroom Home”>Newsroom Home)</p>
<p>Being an MIT aspirant, you should learn to do your own basic research on your own, no?</p>
<p>Yes, that is why I am asking – this will be the first time that I have done such research on my own. Well, not exactly. I research various things all the time, but I don’t have any in-depth scientific knowledge to work from.</p>
<p>When I mean basic research, I mean using the web to find out information like details of the competition. e.g. google. </p>
<p>I mean your base question was rather simplistically answered with a 2 second google insert by me. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>There are a lot of resources at my disposal for finding out the details of the competition – that isn’t really the issue. (Perhaps I should have worded my question better.) I just don’t know how I’m going to gain the knowledge necessary to do a project like this. Topics like biomedical engineering, computer architecture, etc. which come up in the ISEF are advanced college-level topics. Should I take a class, or is that something a mentor can help me with?</p>