Science Buddies: Contra Costa Times -
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Published on: 3/19/2002
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And Yibo, the 11th-grader at Palo Alto High, worked in the Stanford lab of Dr. Rona Giffard, an anesthesiologist who is probing just how brain cells are damaged during a stroke.
Yibo said he's been entering projects in science fairs since seventh grade, and he had already worked in another professional lab before moving to the area from Michigan.
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It's pretty unusual," Giffard said.
Yibo, she said, was a special case: "He's obviously a very, very bright kid and a very self-motivated person" who is conscientious about his work.
But you don't need to work in a lab or spend a lot of money to come up with a great science fair project, Hess contends.
"The judges are looking for a very simple experiment that the student understands completely," he said.