Re: science fair

Well of course, I did figure out the meeting and all as we talked last night.
Yep, D* is a stream of consciousnous type thinker, but that isn't
uncommon among the Lynchs. Last year D* had a great concept, and he
built little boats from the plastic containers left over from the buddy buck
prizes and electrical tape. He wanted to know how many go stones to add to
make them not tip over in the air from a fan. He made me go shopping for
things buckets and hoses, and cut holes in things. He was quite the general
contractor. .. But we had received notice too late to spend time role
playing judge stuff. Besides he was in K. When you asked him about his
project he just launched into whatever he wanted to talk about! Well this
year we have some more time. There is no need for a book, D* has 1000
ideas already ;-) He told me a good one at lunch today he plans to do.

Please sign me up as a judge for another school. If you need to know my
science background in more detail, or would like references, let me know.

As to my science fair experience, I was at state and the International fair.
My project at the international science fair was an interpretation of
relativity theory. I was also invited to the AAAS meeting in 1981 where I
met Alverez Senior who, along with his son, was proposing the asteroid
theory. While in high school, I one enough awards to cover a wall, some cash
- and a Rensselaer Scholar medal for a talk on space travel.

Academically, I have an M.S.E.E., 21 patents and 8 publications. I never had
time for the PhD, but perhaps sometime yet. One of my papers was
translated into Russian ;-) Well, it looks real impressive - even though I
can't read it! I am occasionally a referee for the Transactions on Computers
(i.e. I filter academic papers for publication). My specialty is in
mathematical functions and logic.

Professionally, I was an architect in the Advanced Architecture Department at
AMD where we did, surprisingly, the latest advanced processor architectures
including one of the first superscalars. I was at AMD for 10 years. Since
then I have been involved with three startups, one of them I founded. Before
AMD I worked on robots, designed equipment for heart research, and I did
homologous sequence matching code for Dr. Arnone - who isknown :-) for having
decoded sickle cell anemia. I also did a study for the Mayo clinic on
simulation for air passage ways.

 (Well what more detail could you want ;-) I got a bit carried away. I have
a formal bio if that matters. Anyway I understand scientific method,
critical thought, and the science fair, and besides I would get a kick out
it.

-tom

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:08, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Well, I got this too late to help you yesterday, but
> the best thing you can do to let D* enter a
> project is just to go get a couple of books about
> science projects, have him look through it until he
> finds one HE loves (that's the hardest part,
> especially with a parent who's done science fair,
> believe me) and let him carry it out. Document
> everything, make your backboard (which he should have,
> I think), and practice for the judges. His main thing
> to practice is to have you role-play with him working
> with a judge. He needs to be able to listen to the
> judge's question, and answer it, and then STOP and
> LISTEN for another question. He is just like my
> Emily: a runaway train of knowledge!!
>
> Hope this helps! he'll be great.
>
> :)
>
> tina
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Received on Wed Jan 12 12:39:45 2005