My Project...
Adam Halverson of Garretson, South Dakota, gives a tour of his robot creation.
Mathew Tucker of Mankato, Minnesota shares the inspiration and development of his tornado model.
One of the great things about the international nature of the Fair is the insight some projects provide on the problems facing their home countries and regions. Take for instance the team project in Plant Science by Eduardo Manuel Soares Guerreiro, Estela Da Silva Guerreiro, and Rita Catarina Ramos Pimenta dos Santos Silva from Odemira, Portugal.
Their research addresses the causes of a devastating condition known as "decline" that has wreaked havoc on cork oak forests in Portugal and threatens the country's cork industry. For perspective, Portugal has about a third of the world's cork oaks…
Caroline Wurden of Los Alamos, NM is competing at Intel ISEF with her physics project, "Great Balls of Fire."