The Science Fair has nothing to do with science and is a stupid, and definitely not creative or innovative waste of time.

Think about a baking contest but with only cake recipes of varying complexity that have been reused over and overagain., but your cake has to bake for 30 days, requires contest babysitting,and if you try to make a new make recipe it ends up sucking.Now think of the science fair. All you do is follow instructions of varying length and complexity online and babysit them amonth in advance (with the results that the person who made the instructions for it, most likely) for "science'". And thenationals are kids who are either geniuses or have parents who are engineers, scientists, something like that (or rich andhave access to the resources to do more elaborate, and expensive, projects) who want to pedal their ideas or somethingThe science fair doesn''t take into account creativity, so someone who takes their entire project from some scienceproject website and follows the exact instructions (with maybe one or two alterations so it's "original") will get a perfectgrade for effort (and design, don't forget it's also an art contest) with their extracting DNA from strawberries that's onlybeen done like, millions of times. Where's the science?It's just doing unoriginal projects and making it look fancy. Isn't there better uses of time then making your parents gobuy lots of random crap for some dumb project you took from the internet and made look nice? It's just, at the end of theday, an art competition with a month of babysitting some "project" that's just glorified plagiarism you probably don'teven care about. And what if you're lower income or your parents just don't have time? Nobody benefits from it. via /r/unpopularopinion https://ift.tt/2NaRQGf