"Her research was supervised by Dr. Alakananda Basu at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. " This is the problem I have with sci

"Her research was supervised by Dr. Alakananda Basu at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. " This is the problem I have with science fairs as "competitions". It is completely impossible to disentangle the contributions of the student from the opportunities given by their environment, so if you just judge the end result, of course the kids who happen to have access to university labs are going to get results that are miles beyond what a kid working in his parents' garage can accomplish. But that has, IMHO, very little to do with the individual. (Not to mention that kids whose parents are university faculty or similar, and thus generally pretty well off in society, will disproportionately get these chances.) I stopped volunteering as a judge for the Santa Cruz science fair because I got so fed up with this bias.