Comments on: Boys Build A Cyclotron http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/06/11/boys-build-a-cyclotron/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: penny http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/06/11/boys-build-a-cyclotron/comment-page-1/#comment-918155 penny Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:24:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/06/11/boys-build-a-cyclotron/#comment-918155 Typical science fair: Under the direction of Dr. Lawrence ( inventor of the cyclotron)--who told them what to read, some boys--with help from shop teachers ( probably science teachers, too) do the grudge work to build a cyclotron. Well, I built one myself--when I was a younger teen--from an article in "The Amateur Scientist" ( Scientific American). It was smaller--of course. I had no help. I didn't bother entering it in a "Science Fair"--because I already knew that Science Fairs were phoney--as described above. Want to win the Intel Search---spend some summers in high school working with a university prof as her cheap hands, and enter her ( oops--your) project. Typical science fair:
Under the direction of Dr. Lawrence ( inventor of the cyclotron)–who told them what to read, some boys–with help from shop teachers ( probably science teachers, too)
do the grudge work to build a cyclotron.

Well, I built one myself–when I was a younger teen–from
an article in “The Amateur Scientist” ( Scientific American). It was smaller–of course. I had no help.
I didn’t bother entering it in a “Science Fair”–because
I already knew that Science Fairs were phoney–as described above.

Want to win the Intel Search—spend some summers in high
school working with a university prof as her cheap hands, and enter her ( oops–your) project.

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