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What are some ideas for research projects?

Where can I find someone to discuss scientific ideas and help me with research projects?

  • I go to a special ed school. It teaches just math and English. I don't know anyone with my interests outside of the internet. I'm still a child. What can I do? Please, I'm desperate!

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    It does depend on what exactly your research interests are. My suggestions might not be helpful to you but they could be a start. But still, my first recommendation. You must be aware of websites like Coursera, right? So there might be subjects which are related to your work. Take them up. They will generally have Discussion Forums where you can get a chance to interact with people. And the best part is, generally students on these online courses try to have meet ups in their areas (or nearby areas depending on where the majority people are from) and you can actually attend such meetups. That can be a good place to start. You can check out websites like http://stackexchange.com/ which have Q/A forums/websites where you can discuss your queries with a lot of people. And since such websites (include Quora to this as well) are topic dependent, it can help you a lot more. No offence intended, but if you feel you're too young to be working on something "big" on your own, the above might not be the best approach for you. What I would suggest then is to talk to teachers in your school. Or maybe even your parents, who can help you interact with other students or even professors from a local college.

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It would help if you could find a mentor. Think Obiwan Kenobi. You actually might need two. Any science you want to discuss, you will need math (which you say you have, but I can't tell quality). So in your school I suspect you may need to find a math mentor (local, in your school, maybe start a math club (I was a member of our HS's, and I was asked to start our HS computer club)). The more mathematical tools you have, the better. With your local mentor, try to find a scientific mentor with some near by source, possibly a community college is one place at a high school level. That you have the net is a fantastic resource, I didn't have. When I was in elementary school, I had a local observatory (another local institution) which had public lectures and non-credit classes. You will still need a library and maybe a laboratory resource. Can a librarian be a mentor? Possibly, but you have to be careful (they aren't scientists). These answers depend on your scientific curiosity. We need specifics. Science, for better or worse, is about specialties. We might also need to know your special needs. For instance Kent Cullers of the SETI program who was the basis of two characters (Kent in the movie Contact from the book by Carl Sagan and Whisler in the film Sneakers) is blind as is T. Raman at Google.

Eugene Miya

You need to find someone trustworthy and willing to help you.  I am wondering what are you doing right now.  You said you are still a child.  First thing about an idea is to check if this idea is already tried or used by somebody in the past.  Secondly find if there are better solutions already available to achieve it.  Then what you need is to find out if it is technically feasible.  A child may be dreaming of using laser beams and use the sky as a screen for advertisement.  It is valid until we realize there is nothing as sky exist there. I guess you can find a teacher in your school,  your parents,  elder cousins, etc. who will be interested to listen to you and guide you into the next level.  Wishing you good luck.

Crowly Mathew Arackal

You can go to http://Experiment.com and browse through some of their lab notes for interesting projects in Science. Then you can head right over to http://RamenApp.net and discuss science with anything who's willing to listen and to contribute. Share what you find on social networks, rinse and repeat. Next thing you know, you're a genius!

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