CABS - Center for Advancement of Basement Science: March 2022

What is CABS?

This site will help high school students and teachers find original, independent science research topics and questions that can be done without a professional lab...these can be done in a school lab or even in one's basement! The project ideas and research questions being developed and presented here have been vetted and could lead to true discoveries, and not just finding already known results. See our Welcome message. These are the types of projects that could be done and submitted to high school contests such as the Regeneron Science Talent Search, Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, or the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, and be competitive. If you have an idea to share, or a question about one of the project ideas, contact us at vondracekm@eths202.org.

Pages (on the right side of the screen) have lists of ideas for different types of science research projects, and clicking on one of those ideas will take you to posts with details and all sorts of information about that type of project. Get more information about why there is a need for CABS!

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Congratulations to 2022 Regeneron STS Finalists and Winners!

If interested in seeing what the Top 40 Finalists in the Science Talent Search did for the 2022 competition, check it out! These are some of the best and most promising young scientists in the country.

Interesting Fluids studies - droplets on windshields

One of the Fluid Dynamics options listed in CABS has to do with studying drops of water (or other liquids) on windshields of cars, or at least simulating this in a lab. Fluids offer a nearly endless range of possibilities of phenomena and situations to study, and in many cases to do so fairly easily, at least for high school level research. This type of work can be done in a school lab or even at home, perhaps in one's basement!

To hopefully convince you that this can provide original work, a formal study on droplets on windshields was just published in a professional peer-reviewed journal. And when one thinks about variations on a theme, many more possible studies develop from the original (good research typically creates more questions than answers, and keeps that research stream alive for many years). Keep observing, keep questioning, and keep doing interesting science!