Adam Conover: “1989 Brookhaven National Laboratory Science Fair. Conducters and Nonconducters. The ribbon is for participating, not for winning.”
Blue ribbons, y’all. (Hi, Adam!)
This is me. Thanks for sending it in, Mom! (Also, for the record, I did win first prize for this — just at a different science fair!)
The project let you test to see which objects were conductors and which were non-conductors by touching the wires to them — if the object was conductor, the circuit would complete and the light bulb on top would light up! I don’t remember who came up with the idea, me or my parents, but I do remember being enormously proud. And also being totally shocked when, the following year, I didn’t even place.
(Finally: I’m wearing an eyepatch because of a childhood case of amblyopia.)
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