How Do You Organize A Science Competition?
Organizing a Science Fair I can’t say for certain, but it sure sounds like they do education better in Canada. In the USA, school vice principals are frequently ex-gym teachers moving up in the world. Their job is to observe how the school principal (another ex-gym teacher) watches the school secretary do her work in the hope that someday he will move up into that job. But there is this vice principal in Canada, C. Kirk Taylor. And you can see Kirk Taylor’s Web site, How to Organize School Science Fairs, something he did in 2000 to guide teachers in doing just that – organizing science fairs. Wow, a school vice principal actually doing something other than trying to catch kids lacking hall passes. This article draws liberally from Taylor’s site. Taylor lists benefits of science fairs additional to the two mentioned in the first paragraph: • Developing a sense of pride in accomplishment • Learning more about the use and application of the
