<p>I had an internship at a prestigious lab and did 9 weeks of research there. I want to submit a project into both of these competitions but all I have to work with is research that is not original.
Will they accept projects that aren't totally original?
Will they accept projects that a mentor helped you with?
Thanks</p>
<p>Yes</p>
<p>Yes</p>
<p>Quite a lot of the finalists have projects that are basically rehashes of their mentor's old papers :/</p>
<p>Depends and depends.</p>
<p>If your mentor came up with the hypothesis - No.</p>
<p>If the question is not original but your approach to the results
are then defintiely yes otherwise maybe.</p>
<p>If neither your approach nor your interpretation of the results are
original then no.</p>
<p>Since the entries are blind refereed no one knwos if you did the work in a
prestigious lab or in my podunk garage (like I did).</p>
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If your mentor came up with the hypothesis - No.
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<p>Not so sure on that one. I see plenty of students with not-so-original hypotheses. Or if the student came up with it, it was basically a re-hashing of the mentor's old papers, as Pro28 said. Not all are like this, of course, but how will the competition judges know who actually came up with the hypothesis (which is sometimes just an altered form of the mentor's)?</p>
<p>Kyledavid has a point.</p>
<p>My answers were based ont he assumption that honest replies were being
provided for the Intel STS question that dwells on how you tend to solve problems or think or set up your hypothesis.....</p>