<p>so is there any advice from anyone who has had experience/awards in siemens?</p>
<p>bump bump....</p>
<p>I have a question: My friend and I are highly interested in doing a psychology project, but there's no social sciences category. Does that mean we can't enter? :(</p>
<p>Behavioral projects aren't allowed.</p>
<p>hey for those who are doing a project, lets list the topic of our research. it'll be fun.</p>
<p>i'll start.
complex network modeling (computer science)</p>
<p>Hey junglebum, were you at ISEF?</p>
<p>Yeah I was looking for advice for westinghouse as well. I was at ISEF =D.</p>
<p>Project: Eye disease (Medicine and Health)</p>
<p>I was in Medicine and Health too. Unfortunately, I didn't win a grand award.</p>
<p>There were so many people in that category, I only got to know the people around me. I just tested the cytotoxic affects of a few extracts on prostate cancer.</p>
<p>Do Mathematics. Not many people do that. Too many biology projects. For math, you really need some rigorous proofs, which is more appealing than just experiments, which some biology/chemistry/physics projects are all about.</p>
<p>Oh, it's called Siemens Competition now, they just dropped the Westinghouse name this year I think.</p>
<p>I agree with you in that math may be more appealing due to the many bio/chem/biochem projects that are submitted (I'm submitting one myself). Compared to any other research topic, getting the materials for that or getting the necessary help is relatively easy. I don't know about you, but I think forming a good mathematics project is tough, though. Then again, such topic doesn't interest me, so I wouldn't necessarily know how rigorous it would be.</p>
<p>does anyone know if there are more individual or team projects?</p>
<p>More individual. You can only do individual as a senior.</p>
<p>ok. and how would you guys rank the region difficulty..?</p>
<p>Could someone tell me in general about the Siemens Westinghouse or whatever it's called now? No one in these here parts have done ever heard of it, and I do a science project every year. This year I almost made it to ISEF; i fell a few places short in the rankings at my local fair. 2 girls from my tiny public high school went to ISEF 2 years in a row. I would be interested in entering next year if I knew more about it. I did an Earth Science project freshman year, and an Environmental Science project sophomore year, neither of which worked out as well as I'd hoped.</p>
<p>Thanks. :)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/competition/%5B/url%5D">http://www.siemens-foundation.org/competition/</a>
Oh, qualifying for ISEF is a lot easier than getting an award in Siemens.</p>
<p>NY Regional is tough. Then again, unlike any other regional (or place in the US, for that matter), students have like 384728934892798 opportunities to do research. </p>
<p>I'm gonna say the West Region at Cal Tech. I know about three or four guys with strong projects that are going to enter Siemens this year (one guy actually got 2nd as a team last year), and this is only in Hawaii. Obviously, California is going to have great representation, and Dmitry won it last year from Oregon.</p>
<p>Well, it's not like it matters, you're not going to move to an easier region are you?</p>
<p>No, and I doubt Westinghouse would allow anyone to do that. What region are you in?</p>
<p>Besides, they select 300 projects regardless, so the strength of the regional only makes a difference if you want to make it to the regional competition. I don't think I can do well enough to make regionals by Mid September (I continue in August, so meh).</p>
<p>I'm in Midwest. I was a Regional Finalist last year.</p>