finalist

Way to go! LOL at your journaling ... ;-)

Quite a record of accomplishment with all those years of being a finalist. Congrats. Fun layout to document the challenge and the times.

Well, there you go!

@flowersgal the asterisk and strip were a grade/year marker from on of Allison's kits - he was in year 6/sixth grade at this point- he started doing science fair in grade 3 through 6 in primary school (elementary) and then they do one in year 8 & 10 at the high school he's at - science fair seems a huge deal in US education but i can't imagine starting it any sooner than year3 (and the finalists have always been university level investigations with professional level posters, i can't even remember what his 2020 sci fair project was, which says it had little to no parental involvement unlike other years!)

@bellbird - In the homeschool group we are in the first year they do it is 7th grade...when they are old enough to research and do a lot of the work on their own. 2 of my kids get to do it next year.

@Scrapping with Liz that would make total sense! His year 8 one is in progress under the patio outside at the moment (they had to do something botanical - he has 2 types of lettuce growing with different fertilizers in the soil based ones and a hydroponic set to look at relative levels of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous 's impact on leaf/food growth, but the lack of sun with the continuous rain we've had since he start is proving a major hurdle, and something may have eaten one of them - it's all discovery and 'discussion' topic stuff for the report anyway but it's one of the less involved ones the kids have done in the past! I'm so over making sure plants grow for the duration of science investigations! Succulents that thrive on neglect are my jam!)