Abstract:Science fairs are an almost unavoidable experience for students at some stage in public school. This paper examines how student projects and science fairs-and, by extension, professional science-are portrayed in newspaper media coverage of national and local science fairs. Despite a high student participation rate and a high number of science fairs (100+ regional fairs/year), media coverage is infrequent. Of the newspaper coverage that does occur, much of it reflects four ideological themes: i) Science is comp… Show more
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