Project Plan

The very idea of conducting a science fair is to help the students learn scientific facts in an interesting way, to understand it and also exhibit what they had learnt, to an audience. To achieve this, the theme of the project must be within the realm of the students and has to be chosen carefully. In order to have a successful project, one must first find a good science fair project idea.

Good school libraries and well equipped public libraries should be a helpful source for good science fair project ideas. But now plenty are available over the Internet. One can get a good science fair project idea from the ones listed, according to the targeted age group. In the science category, choose a topic that interests most of the students. Then, narrow it down and make it into a project. It would be ideal if it can be of some use to the general public also. In general, use the internet sparingly, unless there is a paid guide. Keep in mind that all of the ideas and information you find for free on the internet are about projects that have been done before by thousands of other students, while in general, paid guides are performed by far fewer students because of the price tag barrier.

A good science fair project idea can be chosen from natural science, physical science, microbiology or any interesting branch of science. Be considerate that the necessary articles required for the project are freely available either naturally or in the nearby areas. Let not the collection of materials be a big chore for the eager students that the project becomes a hard task. [...]

One of the more important tasks of a project manager is ongoing project reporting. This communication with all stakeholders, from the executive members down to the actual team members is very important in order to keep everyone on the project well informed. To assist you in effective project reporting, the following five tips are very important.

1. Project status
Produce a project status report on a weekly basis, where you can show the planned versus actual effort, percentage completion and also financial budget versus actual. Include all open risks, issues and changes. You may also want to include a summary of the next week’s tasks, upcoming milestones and deliverables.

2. Project schedule and completed tasks
You must on a regular basis show the project owner, sponsor and other stakeholders progress on project tasks. Produce a summarized view showing all tasks with percentage completed. You may also want to add this report as an appendix to your weekly project status report. [...]