Those "My Kid is an HONOR STUDENT at (place school name here)

[Team Sergeant]

Those bumper stickers don't mean much to me especially when I read a story like this:

Wyoming teen who built reactor ousted from science fair on technicality
Published June 01, 2013
Associated Press

NEWCASTLE, Wyo. – A Wyoming high school senior who built a nuclear reactor was disqualified from the International Science and Engineering Fair this month on a technicality.

It seems that 18-year-old Conrad Farnsworth of Newcastle had competed in too many science fairs.

According to the Casper Star-Tribune (http://bit.ly/16vSW4c), the infraction was reported by the former director of the Wyoming State Science Fair, who later did not have her contract renewed. Officials at the University of Wyoming, which sponsors the state event, said after the international fair that the director acted outside her authority.

The newspaper reports Farnsworth is one of only about 15 high school students in the world to successfully build a nuclear fusion reactor. Farnsworth says his disqualification was silly.

He graduated this month and plans to attend the South Dakota School of Mines.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/01...#ixzz2V1gsahXB




I want to see those bumper stickers that say: "My kid built a working fusion reactor last summer, what did yours do?"

[PSM]

I guess that they have a "high capacity" science fair law there.

Pat

[Sdiver]

I'm surprised that there was even a science fair in Wyoming .... most places in that state are still waiting for 'lectricity.

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

I'm surprised that there was even a science fair in Wyoming .... most places in that state are still waiting for 'lectricity.

Some don't bother waitin' & make their own. They have some pretty savvy folks out there adept at using stuff that goes boom & getting goodies from the earth.

I'm surprised the people who went all gooey over 3D printed guns aren't quivering jelly-fish now and haven't sent Big Sis to check it out.

Neat!

[Trapper John]

My first thoughts were reflections on Ayn Rand's "Anthem"....how prophetic!

[35NCO]

It is at least very inspiring that the interest of science still exists in the younger generation to such a magnitude that some are making such a noble attempt, to build such an incredibly mathematically intensive project.
In another note, there must not be any Rad sensors locally. Or else Homeland would have locked him up at first ping.
Many of these projects are “The Manhattan Project” (1986) of a post 9/11 USA.
Good luck to the kid, hopefully his future brings about good things for us.

...My hope is that he can pursue his dreams of education without being converted to a liberal.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by DocIllinois

Agreed. A kid who carries a hat-pin sized model gun is a threat; a kid who homebuilds a nuclear reactor is left alone.

I guess one may be thrown into the "future gangster" category, the other into "possible future use by the U.S. gov't."?

No DHS, FBI, CIA, ATF, and FEMA has put him on their "List".

[Wiseman]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

No DHS, FBI, CIA, ATF, and FEMA has put him on their "List".

https://twitter.com/Barium_Puns

Says on there that he loves guns, explosives, electronics, fusion reactors, and nerding out.

[GratefulCitizen]

Some videos from his YouTube channel:

http://youtu.be/qVLYo3Udksw
http://youtu.be/oiR2nh4FSWk
http://youtu.be/5Z4_GQNKIrY
http://youtu.be/hyp1gfqUiBQ
http://youtu.be/ZpMihwusfXI
http://youtu.be/nttWPMLVHZc
http://youtu.be/l1IecoKcfbI
http://youtu.be/5FuAbY-en7k
http://youtu.be/u5wG6P0eVQk

Seems like a normal kid to me.
(Or, at least what used to be normal.)

[akv]

Originally Posted by 35NCO

...My hope is that he can pursue his dreams of education without being converted to a liberal.

Or Islam....Just kidding

[MSRlaw]

Isn't the bigger issue that we have 15 high schoolers building nuclear reactors? I assume these aren't made in the hs chem lab. And obviously creating fusion is a far, far way from having a working nuclear weapon, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that some cash plus access to all sorts of chemicals and equipment plus threat of familial death or promise of great familial gain can lead to some nasty consequences down the line.

Now what was the actual issue in the article? The kid entered too many science fairs so his nuclear reactor is now disqualified along from the kid for any type of reward? And it turns out he shouldn't have been d'qed?

It sucks for him but obviously the Wyoming science fair isn't the end of the science road for this kid and presumably he can attend mit/caltech/local state flagship university and go on to a great lucrative career in chem, physics, or engineering. But it is Obama's fault. Susan Rice, LOL if human lives weren't at risk it would be a great joke.