Summarize the following:
If you're genuinely excited and curious about your topic, chances are you'll come up with something original. A curiosity to learn is essential for motivating you to pursue ideas in a creative way and to put the time and effort into making your project "new." One way to create an original project is to improve on someone else's idea, for example, by repeating a science experiment that someone else has already done and then adding onto the experiment to make it more complex or useful. In this instance you're not creating something entirely new from scratch, but the originality comes in seeing a worthwhile project and finding a way to make it better. This mode is especially valuable when coming up with ideas for a science project, as you can often take an experiment that someone else has already done and find a way to tweak it to test something new or prove something slightly different. Oftentimes you start a project out with what you do know, but one way to ensure that your project will lead to something that's truly original is to keep exploring the topic until it leads to what you don't know. Usually, this means you've landed on a topic/information that most people in your class don't know either. Even if the topic you choose right out of the gate of your brainstorming process isn't the most original thing in world, you still have the opportunity to shape and mold your topic and your project as you go through the tasks of reading and preparing to do the project. Originality can come in at a lot of different points throughout the process of doing the projectit doesn't necessarily have to be something that's there right from the start.
Start with a fresh perspective. Improve upon something that already exists. Keep investigating.