When you have walking, talking Teddy bears with homemade computer chips showing up to a 2nd grade science fair, you know parental involvement has gone too far. Welcome to the seedy world of parent ...

It wasn’t just a cute slogan, but the title of a project he’d completed for the second grade science fair at Chester Street Elementary School.

During the hour-long fair, classes from kindergarten to fifth-grade mingled through the gym where the fair was held, asking the young scientists questions about their projects.

Eight volunteers from the Huntsville Center offered their STEM field expertise to help judge more than 110 projects during the annual Challenger Elementary School science fair Jan. 20.

It seems that the science fair smashes these science projects into similar boxes---boxes that can be easily graded. It's much easier to give a score or grade to a science project if you can check ...