Do you have any ideas for a science fair?

Question

do u have any ideas of what to present in a science fair? the theme is Science and Technology for reduction of poverty?

Answer 1

Hmmm..

Try these:
1) Hydrophonic Vegetables
2) Uv Light to gow vegetables indoors
3) Recycling for countries with limited raw materials
4) Renewable energy such as solar and wind


In you are thinking of doing social science:
1) Documentaries of poor countries
2) Charity Foudations in poor countries
3) The function of technology in helping poverty
4) Sharing of technologies

Basically you can also try typing 'technology' and
'poverty' on any search engine

Answer 2

The studies done by the original owners of Mother Earth News for the use of such things as methane gas for fuel and to heat with. They also had a series on the use of wood gas production to make a use able fuel. This consisted of a tank that was kept air tight, except where air was allowed in to burn wood on a cast iron hearth. The smoke is pulled down through the fire to produce usable fuel gasses. This is sometimes referred to as "producer gas'. This fuel source was used in Europe during the second world war to offset the lack of gasoline for the civilian population. In general, check out Mother Earth News, I think you will find some interesting articles that deal with the use of technology, and science that while not "high tech" would definitely help reduce poverty.

Answer 3

Pick a problem that stems from poverty - hunger, homelessness, lack of opportunity. Look how you could address one of those issues through the means of technology. Hunger: how to preserve and transport food to areas of the world where food is scarce (dry freezing food, portable refridgeration). Homelessness: there is a company that is designs small, efficient low cost homes...expand that idea to housing complexes for low/no income people. Lack of opportunity: find an area in the field of technology that will has a promise of job growth and address how to train unskilled people to fulfill those jobs.

Answer 4

There are many excellent tools for poverty reduction- one of them is bio-gas.
I'll put a link below, but bio-gas is essentially putting your food & toilet waste in a big plastic bag and allowing it to rot. It produces methane gas, which is allowed to exit, leaving behind highly nutritious compost the poor may use to grow food, thus helping to gradually eliminate food dependency and wastign money on expensive or damaging heating fuels such as coal, wood or kerosene.

Answer 5

Show the European food mountain, how Western Europe pays its farmers to NOT grow food otherwise there will be too much thus driving prices down making the people levying taxes a bit porer, then show the pictures from the 84 famine with all the children starving slowly to death.

remember.. pic of big lardy john prescott with a pie standing next to both his jags he uses to drive the 50 feet from his house to his office
then africans starving to death.

Answer 6

Make a hybrid plant and talk about how hybrid crops are producing 10x as much wheat and rice per acre as the old crops.

Answer 7

mentos and diet coke! try it it has to be diet coke thought or it wont work. simply drop a few 2-3 mentos in a 2 litter bottle of diet coke and tada master piece! It is a awome expermint and everyone will love it !

Answer 8

internet communications to hook up people with jobs

transportation for the future (for food, work, etc)

genetically modified food crops for disease/pest resisitance

Inexpensive and efficient housing designs

bringing medical care to impoverished regions

education strategies for the future

advances in loan/funding programs (look up last years
winner of the nobel prize in economics)

Answer 9

How about the invention of foreign call centres?
Now they don't have to come to our country anymore -
they can take our jobs from home!

Answer 10

build a nuclear bomb, i did it, although i couldnt get my hands on any nuclear material, i got second. maybe you should try a volcano. seems very popular.