Career questions tagged science-projects
What are some STEM based Internships and/or abroad programs I can participant in as a senior in high school?
I'm currently a senior in high school, and have intentions to major in mechanical engineering (BS). What are some internship or study abroad programs that I can take summer of 2026 before I start college that would help boost my skills, experience hands-on research and/or projects, and learn in a college setting to prep for my freshmen year? It doesn't have to be about engineering, I'm open to any STEM based programs. #Fall2025
How to identify a problem for a passion project?
I am trying to start a passion project, but I'm having trouble picking/finding a problem to solve. For me, it's the hardest part. So, do you have any tips or something else that can help me identify a problem I can use for a passion project? I want my passion project to be mathematics, physics/science, and technology because I am interested in those topics. It also has to be a problem that doesn't require any money or a very small amount. I'm in middle school/8th grade. I want to become a mechanical engineer who studied at Caltech or MIT. I hope this information helps.
Whats a good topic?
I don’t know if I can ask this here or not but since there are professionals here and more people I can ask for opinions I will. So this year I’m participating in the science fair and I wanted to do a psychology experiment. We want it to be a grade appropriate experiment, we are in 11th grade. The thing is I have 4 topics I could possibly do with my partner but she likes 2 and I like the other 2. I don’t like the ones she likes so I’m asking here which one sounds better: 1. How much do high school students depend on artificial intelligence for English redaction assignments? 2. How many teens are mentally affected by social media and how does it correlate to gender and age? 3. Why do high school students procrastinate? 4. Can teachers really tell when students use artificial intelligence for their assignments? The thing I don’t like is that 2 of them are heavily researched on and almost everyone is well informed of it by social media. There has been multiple projects on those 2 and I wanted to do something more interesting, also the part where it says “English redaction assignments” is because our first language is Spanish and even though we are in a bilingual school many people are not fluent in English so I think they tend to use it more for English assignments. Which sounds like a more interesting topic?