Crushing the Hopes of the Young

Today I played Lord and Master of the County Science Fair.

I was a judge at the County Science Fair for grade school and middle school kids. I was assigned to judge 5 Eighth-grade projects. Two were no-shows so life was in my favor.

Generally I think the kids were a bit intimidated by the whole judging process and would have rather been doing almost anything else.

I think back to the only science fair that I participated in and am still ashamed (well, not ashamed, but certainly not proud) of the pathetic project that I did.