<p>I agree with you, thisyearsgirl. In fact, in my son's case, he spent the good part of a year just reading everything he could get his hands on that's been done in the field he was going to study, in order to really understand it and to have a context from which he could think about (with his mentor) what the actual form of his own study could be.</p>
<p>i am doing research but i dun have any intel awards! lol, i didn't even bother entering sci fair cause i did it only for experience, since i had a busy time with other stuff, i just "missed" the sci fair deadline and continued on to research! =)</p>