The Importance of High School Research
High school research is the pinnacle of a student's educational career. It is a doorway to their exploration of their career path and the development of their skills. Through partaking in research, students can investigate a specific topic, and they can also improve their critical-thinking and problem solving capabilities, which is a key factor in future career paths.
What's So Important About High School Research?
Highschool research is more than just collecting data and writing them on paper. It ranges from conducting science experiments, to analyzing historical documents, to designing the most durable drawbridge. These types of projects get students interested, drawing them in to learn more about the world and develop critical-thinking skills and understand more about specific subjects.
It also applies to the world outside of highschool. It places a base for your learning skills for higher forms of education, such as quickly and efficiently scanning information from a text and finding key details. These skills are especially useful in college courses, and will definitely contribute to your graduation.
The research that you or others have done also simulates real world scenarios, letting students prepare for obstacles or unknown situations that they would not be able to overcome otherwise. Adding to that, the research that is being completed contributes to the world's database, which contributes to more discoveries to be made about us and our universe.
Types of High School Research
There are various types of highschool research, most commonly humanities, sciences, and technology. Humanitarian research, students learn to examine historical events and figures to learn more about social issues and cultural situations, and adds literature to develop perspectives on certain documents and philosophical questions, all to learn about how we can apply it today to solve today's social problems.
Scientific research is more about experiments and observations. Students test their hypothesis from courses such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and analyze the subjects in these fields (without interfering of course), such as collecting data about a certain species of animals and their evolutionary patterns through a few decades into the future, to simulating the laws of motion through marbles rolling down a tunnel. This method of research is most likely the most engaging for students and the one with the most results for different kinds of solutions.
Technological research is based around programming and coding and building, where students can learn to create algorithms or programs to do simple or complex tasks, ranging from simply putting a box from one corner of the room to the other, or sorting out different colors of legos into different sections.
Because of the many forms of research, students are able to find what they are interested in easily just by delving into the subjects a little bit, which is a definitive boost to their interests in highschool research.
How Does It Affect My Personal Growth?
Generally, research stimulates an individual's curiosity and their need for that knowledge. It lets students motivate themselves, as well as other people who are connected to them. This lets them try to grasp more about a topic that they are passionate about as well, which brings more awareness to that subject.
It also helps with your career paths. As said before, highschool research helps with your future career paths and the development of your critical-thinking, analysis, and communication skills.
What Else Can I Gain From It?
Doing these highschool research methods, such as projects, experiments, and presentations, lets you have access to multiple programs, such as science fairs, internships, and competitions, allowing you to win awards that can boost your academic or career paths. It also allows you to publish your work to be examined by high-end teams of technology and science experts, which contributes to their research on the topic as well.
Highschool research is a part of our daily lives, shown in the littlest amounts of curiosity or experiments that we can do in our bedroom or giant, complex labs. It takes on many forms, such as historical data or biological research, but will always boost our learning experience, allowing us to open up to new career paths that we will find interesting for the many years that are to come in the future.
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