Just to confirm, uremog is getting my point. No, it really isn&#x27;t an advantage. It would be an advantage if one were doing an experiment that required access to a particular strain of cells or really specialized equipment or specialized knowledge, but this particular experiment is none of the above. And even to the extent that it may help, the science fair is a time to <i>not use it!</i> A great deal of the point of such activities is to show how <i>anybody</i> can use the scientific methods to learn things. If you take your student to a high-tech lab to do their high-tech experiment on high-tech equipment, you&#x27;re just <i>further reinforcing</i> the idea that Science is a Thing done by Scientists and I Can&#x27;t Do It Myself.<p>If I were running a science fair, a rock-solid requirement for me to judge something as the winner would be a plausible argument that pretty much any student could replicate the experiment with school-level resources, if they took the time.