[bandofthehawk]

> Others are like "Here's a robot I built" and it's cool but not really novel.

It might be novel to the student. What I mean is that IMO, science fairs should be more about the students exploring and learning/using the scientific method, even if a similar experiment has been done thousands of times before.

[MITSardine]

An issue with that, especially now that they might go to LLMs for bibliography / exploratory work rather than google or a library, is that they may be exposed to the solution before even really tackling the problem.

Maybe that's fine, but it seems to me like it spoils the fun.

[pwndByDeath]

Pretty sure the article agrees with you. They made soap and ink more as makers rather than fake a deeper expertise