<p>Are there science competitions analogous to ISEF, STS, and Siemens but for undergrads?</p>
<p>Dude, is this thread for real…</p>
<p>Yeah. It’s called doing research and getting published. And attending conferences.</p>
<p>dude i go to mit what do you expect? yeah that’s pretty much what i thought, but it is unlikely that you will get to do your own research project until your late junior or senior year…</p>
<p>MIT 2012? Not there yet buddy.</p>
<p>I have friends at the school, and it’s actually quite easy to get a research project. The main concern is whether or not you will get a <em>good</em> one. Everyone wants to do research there…so you know what that means.</p>
<p>One guy I know (an '11) is working on the Quantum Computer - which is a smashing deal that he was able to work out. He’s probably the only undergraduate in the group.</p>
<p>Other people I know are just doing *****work in Physics and Math. You really have to have a significant body of knowledge in order to make significant contributions in science. In that regard, ISEF, STS, and all that high school stuff is trivial in comparison (ie. none of the projects really advance science at all. In fact…a lot of the high placers don’t even do their own projects in that…)</p>
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<p>Not true, I started working under a professor during my late freshman year. Before that, I research/coded in my free time a parallel GPU fluid simulation and emailed some of the faculty about my interests. After some interviews, I started research and a year later, got published.</p>