My Thoughts on the Science Fair (I didn't like it) 

In 8th grade my school did a science fair. My friend had his mom do his entire project. The local newspaper thought it was great so they had an article about it in the paper. My friend bragged about it for weeks. We aren't friends anymore.

I only did science fair in elementary school and I HATED it. It was so stupid and unnecessarily stressful. It literally made me cry.

I had science fairs back when I was in 2nd and 3rd grade (I was living in New York, NOT THE CITY, but in the state) and they were completely optional and we only presented them in the cafeteria. I loved doing them, and one of my projects was about Tyrannosaurus Rex. If I could do another science fair again (I'm in a different state now unfortunately), I would do another paleontology presentation, but do something on one of my favorite lesser known prehistoric animals like Deinonychus or Eurypterus. If you cannot tell, I'm a science nerd, I speak science

1:13 “Apprently, it’s a very American thing, Right guys?” *british agreeing intensifies*

I come back to this video every once in a while just go hear that scream

In my school (Arg, by the way, so our traditions are different) we did science fairs every year until secondary school. I strongly remember one (I was an older teen, by the way) where I was assigned to take care of a colony of Bombyx mori, and while my mom hated them, I just loved to caress their backs (they use a silk thread to make their cacoons, so their bodies have the texture of silk). During the fair we had all the hatched cacoons on display (the cacoons turn yellow when exposed to oxigen) and middle scoolers thought they were cheese puffs. Those were fun times.

My school didn’t do the science fair but we had to do a wax museum. We had to choose a random historical person to research, make a notecard and remember it for presentations(with only important information), make posters, and then on the day of presenting we have to stand still until someone came up to us and we would present our information. We also had to dress up like the person we were researching about.

I did a science project on underwater fireworks, I was popular for a long time

You should have called your battery science fair project “A HEATED discussion on batteries”

I seriously keep coming back to this video because of the beginning.

for my 3rd grade science fair i put hard boiled eggs in the three different liquids. Fruit Punch Gatorade, white vinegar, and coffee. the experiment was kinda like what would happen if you put your teeth in those liquids (since egg shells are supposed to resemble your teeth) and how they would stain. the gatorade made the egg pink, coffee a light brown, and white vinegar made all of the egg shell nutrients vaporize and made the shell like puddy. i ended up in third place btw. my dad helped me.

science fair ideas: probiotics vs antibiotics? how does the size of weals on a small toy car affect it's speed? if you launch a die at the same angle with the same force and starting on the same side each time, will it example: every time you launch on 5, 3 comes up? this one's my favorate that I would have done: do sounds sound louder if you play multiple at once, or if it lasts for longer, or if it's a a different pitch, or if it changes instead of staying one monotone sound? You'd have to pick just one of those variables though

Our teacher showed this to us 😂

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1:17 GRIAN!!!!!!!! OMG IM FREAKING OUT!!!! HOW DID I MISS THIS THE FIRST FEW TIMES I WATCHED THIS!!!!!!

Science fair hack that I did. My topic every year was which popcorn brand was the most reliable. As in which brand after 1 minute, minute and 30 seconds, and two minutes left the least kernels. I wanna say every time pop secret was the best for me. I tried using the exact same project so I didn’t have to do it again, but the school would keep the projects. So I would do the popcorn experiment again. Worked every time and I always made a B or an A on it and one time I actually made it into the top 6 projects one year with 138 students in the class.

“Yes” “Yep” “Absolutely” “Mm hmm” “This is too much power for one person” -James

0:03 This reminds me of this one specific video of yours... *"ThAt'S nOt HoW yOu... PLAAAAAAAAAAAY!!"*

My science fair project was seeing what food earthworms would eat the fastest. I called it “Operation Earthworm.”

yo i just gotta say thanks so much for this vid because for the past 2 years we had to do the science fair and my teachers sucked ass at explaining it but when i saw this video you explained it so well on how to put certain things together and how to format it

"Science Fair...*inhales* AAAAHHHHHH" "WHAAAAAA--" James Sept 27, 2016

Once my dad slacked off for the science fair, and at the last minute so he wrote "is the growth of moss affected by music?" He bought moss from home depot and cut one shorter XD

Watching this seven years later your style has improved so much since this. Props to your hard work on it!

I LOVED the science fair. And we also did a roller coaster project in 6th grade where we had to build a rollercoaster out of paper and popsicle sticks and other crap and we had to add in certain elements like 3 hills and a loop and had to figure out how and why a marble could do the full coaster.

Jaiden: I didn’t have to do the science fair James: *Visable Confusion*

that one awkward moment you have to tell your parents it's due tomorrow

As an Australian we did something different but very close. We did a thing called steam project (also named stem) which stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. Before when it was stem it didnt include art. Now what it is is basically where you have to create something. Like one year it was a useful thing out of recycled materials and another was making your own arcade game.

6:58 I love Cosmos, saw 2014 A Spacetime Odyssey and 2020 Possible Worlds. That episode was “Hiding in the Light” I love Science, I did fantastic in 8th grade Science which was mostly Astronomy, Meteorology, and Geology, my some of my favorite science subjects. 9th grade was Biology and 10th grade was Chemistry and I did decent. 11th grade was Physics, I loved the class but the math killed me.

My science fair almost killed me. Literally. I was in 3rd grade and I was working on my project one night when I realized that it was getting hard for me to breathe. I was rushed to the hospital and apparently almost died. Apparently, I’m allergic to the Rubber Elmer’s Glue that we were required to use for the poster board, and so yeah. I hate science fairs too James. You’re not alone.

James: *Breathes* The boys: "Mhm yeah absolutely."

i didn’t do the science fair

We had to do a science fair every single year and all the teachers came around when we where working to make sure we were where “reaching our full potential”

"Science fair...*inhale*.........................AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Honestly same 😂😂

My sisters were told by their school that they had to do a science fair project that was completely unique. Like, if they googled it, and someone had already done it before, then they weren't allowed to do it. What an unrealistic expectation.

I had one, but it was like you said unenjoyable. I was just waiting, staring at others because people didn't come to mine

I only did the science fair once in 6th grade. My project was on which brand of laundry detergent did a better job, tide or gain. I just took a bunch of white shirts, rubbed them in dirt and then washed and compared them. I forgot the answer but the only part I actually liked was decorating and designing my board with blue, orange, green, and yellow marker. The other stuff was annoying and tedious.

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Love this vid my 5th grade teacher should this to our class for a Science fair and I thought it was the funniest RU-vid vid ever. I'm doing another one now and i came back to this vid for help.

Her: my school didn’t do the science fair The odd ones out: WAAAAAAAAA?!?!?!?

In 5th grade my science fair project was testing different helmets. I got a plastic dollar store helmet, a bike cap, a control with no helmet, and a construction hardhat. I then proceeded to put them on watermelons and through them off a ladder. For that I won best methodology, which means the judges enjoy violent melon extermination too.

"Hey guys, do you think you should wear your seatbelts?" "Yeah" "Yep" "Absolutely" "Hm-hm" "I have cancer"

In my school we have design and he makes us do reflections. the projects we did was making food bars, building stuff with marshmellows, hometown stickers and pixel art with sticky notes.

I tried the science fair not too long ago and it sucked! The teacher would give every student a crappy grade for the smallest mistake. The average grade that our class got for the science fair was a C+, even the student did the most intricate project! It honestly makes me glad that it’s only required for one year at our school.

I did it from like, 3rd to 8th grade. And from kinder to 3rd we had the "invention convention" where you had to build something. I litteraly put a dog bed in a big plastic container and was like "BOOM DOGGY CARSEAT" and I won cause I had pictures of my cute mini labradoodle all over my board. Looking back on that as an almost 11th grader I just think "TAKE THAT JOSEPH, SCREW YOU AND YOUR AMAZING RAMP FOR THE DISABLED YOU SPENT HOURS BUILDING" Edit: Woah 50 likes. Most likes I've ever gotten damn. Thanks y'all!!

What time is it? It's high no- Where did everyone go?

I think I did the t once. back in Vietnam even. out school decided to be fancy and copy the science fair from the US school. my topic was: do time really fly faster when you enjoying yourself. I use a stop watch and a normal clock to measure the amount of time flow when I play video game, watch movie, or reading comic books. result is that they are all the same…obviously. i just use that as an excuse to play video game reading comicbook and watch movies

From 3rd grade to 7th grade we had to do the science fair (I would have voted I didn’t enjoy it if I knew ur twitter) and we had a list and we needed to pick a topic and we couldn’t pick the same topic all the time because in our homework folder (idk if anyone reading had those) and whenever the teacher asked to see our list we gave it to her/him and then cross out the ones we did. I did “how does coding work” for 3rd grade “100 cups tower” for 4th “robotic arm” for 5th “how much longer does a double A battery last then a triple A” for 6th and “make a homemade fan” for 7th

My school just finished doing science fair and I'm so glad. It was horrible i had to stay up so late just to get my mediocre research and stuff on a mediocre poster.

James's most hated people: 5. His college roomate (in the fast food employee shirt). 4. Speech Impediment teacher. 3. The "on the side" customer. 2. His 1st grade teacher. 1. The science fair conclusion.

I can relate to James a lot since I am in a school in dubai and we had to do three big events first was the science fair second the bodyolgy fair and third an exhibition. So I basically went through the same thing James did but 3 time a year. And it feels horrible and you have to work in groups of three for 8 weeks each.

hey, hello, soo I've watched this video so many times( over so many years) and I've shared it with sooo many (probably too many) children/kids/familiars in my family; and at this point YOU WERE THE LUCKY ONE, to have a science fair, that is *coughs* it encourages and I wish they'd bring back for kids like my nephew …..who cant vinegar and baking soda enough

Jayden: oh I didn’t Do the science fair James: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I did the "the the temperature of a battery effect on how long it will last" and i won 1st place. Thanks james

I went to Florida ( because my stepdad is in the military) and we did a presentation on women and stuff and I LOVED it. It was fun to design my thing but it was only in one class room ( in Florida there was to class room attached ) so only the kids in my class could see it but it was fun ( I did the black women that was the first black female to fly a plane)

in canada science fair has has a major difference, that being leg pain because you go to your gymnasium (you do not present in front of the class) and stand there all day as students come see your exposition and ask you questions about things they found unclear all. It is an absolute hell if you do not get a bench as i never got one and had to sit through the leg pain all day.

_This comment section_ 20% Grian in the video 40% James and Jaiden fan art 30% Science fair stuff 5% Other stuff 5% James’ scream at the beginning

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I had the option to do a science fair. As far as I can remember it only happened once, at my K-8th school. I did it with a friend, I now cringe on the project. It wasn’t graded, it was just to do random stuff

In 4th grade our school did a science fair. It was optional; we got about 50 students (out of 700) to participate. You got to choose what topic you did ( I did 'what surfaces produce the most mould?'). I ended up winning 2nd place so it was pretty good. I then learnt about 50% of the votes were the teachers that liked me, and 25% were my friends (like as in- I have a good work ethic or smthng- lol) I'm Australian

James’ vids never get old for some reason to me

For my science fair project, My question was “which popcorn brand pops the fastest?” I made the board with a ton of tape and had a huge pocket of popcorn

My school (in Latin America), did the science fairand I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! Omg I was o in love with tye science fair and I still am. Every year I search for different project ideas MONTHS befofe it is. Sadly, this year's going to be my last science fair 🥲.

We didn’t have a science fair per say, we had this thing called the invention convention. It’s in 5th grade. Instead of science projects we had to make some sort of invention, present it to the rest of the 5th grade classes, and 2 kids from the grade are selected to present it at a state wide invention convention. I was a super arts and crafts kinda kid (still am tbh) I was in a massive duct tape phase at this point so I asked my dad to help me make this thing called the draft n craft which was basically a lap desk with storage underneath to hold supplies. It was honestly pretty creative and useful seeing as it was thought up in 2 seconds by a 10 year old. I was one of the 2 kids selected that year and got to go to UCONN to present it statewide. It was a pretty cool experience. Didn’t even come close to winning obviously because it’s not THAT creative of an idea but still.

James: So I asked a friend....... Everyone: JAIDEN

So, the person I was put next to in the gym had an expirement that was LITERALLY JUST DIET COKE AND MENTOS and he ended in the yearbook and got lots of attention... and when I tried to show “how do certain substances affect ice melting” they would say “oh uh yeah cool”

I have done it multiple times, and it was/is AWEFUL! My friend, did one on snails, and I forget what the thing was, but her name, was AWESOME! It was "ES-CAR-GOOOOO!!!" because it was something about her raising them.

answer to your question the tempreture do effect how long the battery last you could buy an electric car and see that in the winter it drive horter than the summer

It’s ridiculous how many times I come back to this video, just to hear that beautiful scream at the start

Me and my partner were working on our project, and this random lady walks in, goes "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" and walked away. We still won.

I first watched this video at a young age and at the time I didn’t think the science fair sounded so bad…my school had a science fair earlier this year and you were right

I only did the science fair once in my entire life. It was in second grade. We did class projects where each class did a project together,we did our project on spiders because Nevada has a variety of spiders. I specifically with my friends who I'll dub Sam, Carly and Dave (two of these friends watch your videos so i don't want to give out their real name,the other passed away) Dave, Sam Carly and I did the wolf spider and we used my grandpa's camera to take pictures of wolf spiders that were in my backyard,and my sister helped us write a detail description of the wolf spider to go with our pictures. The wolf spiders aren't "common" in Nevada but they still are around. We had to put all our information on this big poster board. Everyone else had maybe two or three paragraphs on their spiders while my group had this detailed like page and a half description we had to find put on a separate poster board just to fit everything. Our class got third place,it was a school district thing so we got third place for the entire school district which is pretty impressive if you think about it. Out the end of the year I got to take the poster boards home with me, I think my mom still it.

7:38 Did he legit just put Jaiden+James fanart on there... You ok bro?

This literally explains scientific investigation better than every teacher I've had. i come back to this because I keep forgetting how to write a hypothesis xD

We had science fair in elementary school but we had to just come up with something we can do research on. One year I did a presentation on bees and I drew the different bees (worker, drone, queen) labeled the parts and presented the hierarchy, communications, etc. I got a blue ribbon and an A

i love your videos thank you so much!

I only had to do one science fair. My question was, "does size and height contribute to meteor impacts?" Which I tested by dropping balls of varying sizes into a bucket of flour and measuring the crater size. The answer was a resounding........ yes

Actually I watched this video 3 weeks before my science fair. I was the only one who 1. did it all myself (no parent help) 2. Had a classic project (don't know if that was good or not- hmm..) We were in a homeschool co-op thing so noone faked their data. I was so proud of my project- I got last place out of eighth.

At my school we don't do the science fair, but if you are a GTA student which stands for gifted and talented. You have to do a project in the 4th and 5th grade and if you were in the and if you were a GTA student. You had to do it but if you were a regular student you could choose to do it. I knew people who did once about space. I did mine about Chinese dragons. The funny thing was no one else. Really understood how the project worked. Like there were people who had a big poster board and then just a book of their research and that was it. And there were a bunch of people who did Google slides and all those people got in like third and second and first because they made a Google slide which will just take in 5 more minutes

For us we did it in 1st and 2nd grade and you got to choose if you wanted to do it you weren’t required

School: what are your thoughts on a science fair? James: No

0:06 hey jaiden *after* 7:42 wait... THE TOP OF THE SCREEN

I love all science. OBSESSED WITH IT. MAJORLY.

I’m going to a international school in Italy, and we use to do every year the science fair

“science fair..” **deep breath** “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH”

5:44 “Oh and by the way, the teachers told us to use a creative title.” *Batteries are dumb*

I remember my parents putting batteries in the fridge when I was a kid so I think this thought was more common than you realize James.

My schools only did the science fair from 2nd-5th grade, and we had to do similar things but, we had I think two weeks to do it. But we only presented it to the school by setting them up in the cafeteria and everyone did a walk through before the judges came through. But the main difference I think is we had to write EVERYTHING out on the poster board and you only got 1 so if you messed up you were screwed.

3:29 It's high noon somewhere in the world...

Me: “I guess i’ll go to bed now” Spider in the hallway: 1:53

In 8th grade, we were supposed to have a science fair (it was 2 months before covid went haywire), it was only for the students they selected. The best entries were going to be submitted to the Google Science Fair, I was really excited, I was going somehow launch a rocket with using the concept of maglev(crazy idea, I know, but what if you attached 2 really strong electromagnets on the ground & rocket, they could repel so much to probably maybe shoot it up just fast enough to reach the escape velocity of earth?), unfortunately the fair was cancelled a week later😞

He talked like my science teacher when he was talking about the hypothesis

Science fair. * breath in through nose * AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“Science Fair” *breaths in* *AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

4th grade science project: Does talking to plants help them grow? (inconclusive) 5th grade science project: Can you make eggs bounce? (inconclusive) 7th grade science project: If I leave out sweet black tea, will the yeast in it reactivate and make alcohol? (nope, the yeast is dead)

James: What time of day is hottest? Mcree: IT'S HIGH NOON

I have to do a science fair: I chose if caffeine effected plant growth... It basically killed my plants and yeah.. .-.

At my school, we do a reading fair. where you have to read a book and make a board about it, I read a book and stayed up almost half the night me and my family did at least because it's hard to use like hot glue for a kid and come up with the story and the plot and all the stuff. And we barely made it, it's hard. all that it teaches us is to read and procrastinate until the last second. Good life lessons school!

This is a few years late, but my middle school had a year long project resulting in a final science night and class presentation. When it came time to choose my topic, I chose this battery experiment. It resulted, like yours, in no difference in battery life. I’d be happy to send you the paper if you’d like to see it.

You know why I don’t like science projects? BECAUSE I ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE FIRST ONE TO SHOW THE PROJECT FOR NO REASON