My Thoughts on the Science Fair (I didn't like it)

### Description

Were you part of the 21% of people who didn't enjoy the science fair? I was. If you liked it, great. If you never did it, (lucky) let me tell you why I didn't like it.

### Category

Comedy
Animation

**"My Thoughts on the Science Fair (I didn't like it)"** is a video created by James Rallison (TheOdd1sOut), uploaded on September 27, 2016.

## Synopsis

James shares his thoughts about his science fair experience, which he did not like.

## Plot

### The Twitter Poll Experiment

James was talking to Jaiden Animations about making a video about how much he hated school science fairs, then she said that her school does not do the science fair. James did his own "science experiment," running a Twitter poll asking how many people had to do the science fair at school. 8,500 people responded and 58% of them said that they never did a science fair. 21% of the remainder enjoyed it and the other 21% did not.

### Science Fair: Good or Evil

James actually loves science, but not biology and chemistry. Physics was still okay for him. On the other hand, maybe James only likes science because of some educational and science TV series he likes to watch. James worked on science fair projects every year from fourth grade to tenth grade. There were a couple of flaws of the science fair: working with a partner and coming up with a question. James compares the science fair to an episode of *MythBusters*, and that show has way more resources than what James had.

### Totally Unfair Science Fair

James wanted to experiment on a certain kind of soil, but Home Depot did not have the soil he wanted. James' first-ever science fair experiment was "What time of the day was the hottest?" Easy question, it is noon (actually around 3 pm). When James did his battery experiment, his batteries lasted the same amount of time. Doing the experiment was the fun part, not because of writing down the results, but because of graphing them. The conclusion is the "most insulting part," because of the list of confusing questions. Another fun part of the science fair was choosing different fonts for the title and choosing a creative title; for a plant growth experiment, it could be "Ready, Set, Grow." After the presentations finished, everyone put poster boards in the cafeteria and walked around to judge what other people had done. James had fun with the rocket experiment, which he considered a "blast."

### End Card

There are some updates in James' merch store. Originally he was planning on just selling t-shirts, but after contacting someone else, long story short, the merch store started having more than just t-shirts. James would later plan on making an announcement video about it. James also thanked his friends from the UK (Lightsen, Herotic, Grian, and I Hate Everything) for sending him "audio of them agreeing to everything."

## Characters

* James
* Jaiden Animations
* Ari
* Lightsen
* Herotic
* Grian
* I Hate Everything
* Bill Nye
* Neil Degrasse Tyson
* Jamie Hyneman
* Adam Savage

## Reception

Like many of his videos, the reception is positive.

## Trivia

* This video was rewritten in *The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up*.
* The educational and science TV series James likes to watch include *Bill Nye the Science Guy*, *The Magic School Bus*, *MythBusters*, and *Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey*.
* A small clip from the *Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey* episode "Hiding in the Light" was used where Neil Degrasse Tyson explains, "OK, red light is warmer than blue light. Interesting discovery, but not exactly revolutionary." James then accused Tyson of discrediting James' research.
* Patrick Star with a nail and board on his head from the *Spongebob* episode "My Pretty Seahorse" appears at 4:32.