The Saga Begins

Hello! Do you like having a nice garden? What's that you say? Your garden was overridden by bamboo?! Oh, the humanity!!!

In a more serious tone, I'm a student in a research elective and if you couldn't tell by my 60's B-movie dialogue in the upper section of this post, my research is centered on bamboo. This fast growing menace is a terror to nature, spreading faster than a falling tree, growing quicker than it takes to go back inside on a rainy day, and more destructive to the environment than a nerd with their own fossil fuel power station. I am, of course, researching physical barriers to potentially isolate these war machines of slow growing rage. If you like my obviously good sense of humor, or wish to watch me try to fiddle with objects like I'm a wannabe Macgyver, then feel free to release the inner stalker present in all of us and follow my blog.

Thank you for spending some of your valuable free time reading my blog, and enjoy!

The Scientific Process and How I Came to Love The Tri-fold Poster Board

 Ask yourself, how does a teenager go from anxiously eyeing their Netflix subscription to getting an award at a science fair? If you said the scientific process, then you are absolutely correct!

 The whole process is somewhat a form of confused cause-and-effect, as a scientist sees an effect and tries to find the cause or the same in reverse. To put it into perspective, imagine a staircase covered in ice. You must very carefully ascend the steps, or you will simply fall back down. That is, unless you salted the steps, giving you a clear path. The figurative salt is the scientific process, as it makes clear the steps that must be taken to succeed.

 I hold my experience in past science fairs as the structural foundation to my idea of what the scientific process looks like, but I use my experience as a video gamer to form the big picture. When I get stuck in a video game, I use a walk through to learn how I should progress in the game. When I am handed an entry form for a science fair, I use the scientific process to build myself an experiment out of the first real issue I come upon. 

 My gaming and education have even come together in the past, which gives me such a good comparison, but a person's idea of what the scientific process stands for is always going to be different.