Science fair projects are about real problems that you choose to explore. The problems are challenging and fun. The best way to find out what science fair projects are all about is to do a project and take it to a science fair. This chapter provides 15 Starting Points for projects and these Starting Points have been chosen to give students practice that will help them warm up for a real science fair. If this is the first time a student has worked on a science project, they may want to choose one of the exercises with one or two asterisks and experienced students should try an exercise marked with three asterisks.