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* ''{{Portal2}}'' has the remains of an old science fair in the old abandoned Aperture Science labs. In its saner days Aperture Labs apparently sponsored science competitions for its employees' children as part of Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. The experiments on display are actually a Foreshadowing for stuff you encounter later in the game.

* ''ScrambledEggs'' has a running gag in which Quint always loses the science fair to his Vietnamese stepbrother Tuan.

* How on earth is there no example for ''JimmyNeutron''? Cindy sues Jimmy and gets him banned from the science fair because his genius makes him win every time. He shows up anyway and gets a Nobel Prize from an invention he didn't get to send in. And Sheen had a very hungry lizard.

* In ''OsmosisJones'', Frank contracts the film's viral villain by eating shellfish that a kid's science fair project had allegedly, but not really, rendered safe for human consumption.

* In ''OsmosisJones'', Frank contracts the film's viral villain by eating shellfish that a kid's science fair project had allegedly rendered safe for human consumption.

* The ''WebOriginal\HitherbyDragons'' entry [[http://imago.hitherby.com/2004/08/the-rent-in-the-fullness-of-the-world-iii/ The Rent In The Fullness Of The World]] is based on a science fair for what appear to be gods. Martin's entry after failing to remake the world to his specifications is a study into the nature of the world. Oden's? A volcano.

* The ''HitherbyDragons'' entry [[http://imago.hitherby.com/2004/08/the-rent-in-the-fullness-of-the-world-iii/ The Rent In The Fullness Of The World]] is based on a science fair for what appear to be gods. Martin's entry after failing to remake the world to his specifications is a study into the nature of the world. Oden's? A volcano.

* Flashback in {{Scrubs}} when Turk gets a 3rd prize award for science fair as a kid and delivers this humorous dialogue:

* Some major plot points (namely, TheReveal that Reynardine is not dead) happen during a science fair in ''GunnerkriggCourt''. No volcanoes this time, though.

* ''{{Portal2}}'' has the remains of an old science fair in the old abandoned Aperture Science labs. In its saner days Aperture Labs apparently sponsored science competitions for its employees' children. The experiments on display are actually a Foreshadowing for stuff you encounter later in the game.

* The kids on TransformersPrime had to get ready for one of these. Ratchet "helped" them to the extent that their projects were unrecognizable and failures- the model of the planet had several moons, the volcano was made of metal and dangerous, and the homemade bike tried to transform and exploded.

* The first ''CaptainUnderpants'' Book.

* The music video for Motion City Soundtrack's ''Her Words Destroyed My Planet'' features the members of the band entering an elementary school science fair with a robot, virtual reality simulation, a cloning machine, the "theory of everything", and a giant volcano model. They all get first place ribbons and trophies, after which some of the kids incinerate them with laser blasters.

* An episode of ''BobAndGeorge'', in which Dr. Cossack's daughter builds a self-aware robot and actually ends up losing to a papier-mâché volcano! She lived in the Soviet Union, and since they couldn't use the usual method of consulting the preserved head of Josef Stalin (Dr. Wily stole it), they gave it to the other guy because they thought a boy winning would be better for the country.

* ''DextersLaboratory'' had a science fair involved in Mandark's attempt to get revenge on Dexter for getting Deedee to destroy Mandark's lab in an earlier episode.

* The 1980s version of ''TheLittleRascals'' had an episode titled "Science Fair and Foul", in which Buckwheat built a voice-activated robot to compete with Waldo's ice cream machine.
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Because YouSuck, plots related to science fairs will often (though certainly not always) be based around the BookDumb hero getting the project done at the last minute. Another option is the hero getting one of his/her parents to "help" on the project and then having the project get commandeered by the parent. The TeenGenius is likely to strive to create a wonder that will turn science on its head (but will still lose to the [[DarkHorseVictory kid with the volcano]])

Because YouSuck, plots related to science fairs will often (though certainly not always) be based around the BookDumb hero getting the project done at the last minute. Another option is the hero getting one of his/her parents to "help" on the project and then having the project get commandeered by the parent.

* Tesla High in ''{{Eureka}}'' has quite possibly the coolest (and most competitive) science fair in television. It helps that the kids' parents are all hotshot scientists at an uber-secret government facility; past experience with it has taught Deputy Jo Lupo to attend in full SWAT gear.

* Tesla High in ''{{Eureka}}'' has quite possibly the coolest (and most competitive) science fair in television. It helps that the kids' parents are all hotshot scientists at an uber-secret government facility.
** Past experience with it has taught Deputy Jo Lupo to attend in full SWAT gear.

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* This troper's wife teaches chemistry and has judged a lot of science fairs. There is ''always'' a volcano.
** [[{{Muselette}} This troper's]] school averted this by not allowing things like volcano or solar system models entry as projects because they weren't "testing a hypothesis," but they could be used as visual aids if they had some relevance to the actual project. Needless to say, this troper never saw many volcanoes.
** Completely averted in this troper's education. No school I ever attended ever had a single science fair. Not one!
** This troper's middle school had a ''mandatory'' science fair, but he never saw a volcano or solar system model (probably because of the aforementioned "must test a hypothesis" rule). However, they did include an option where you could just write a 7-ish page research paper if you didn't want to do a project.

*In ''The Adventures of SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', the titular characters meet The Geek at a science fair. Her project is a black hole. That's right—a black hole.

* ''KimPossible'' features a science fair with assigned partners. Kim and Justine build an elaborate portal to another dimension that unleashes a hellish monster. Ron and Monquie put a volcano together at the last minute.
* ''PhineasAndFerb'' features a science fair, where our heroes help Baljeet build a portal to Mars. While Dr. Doofenshmirtz recollects building elaborate ray guns, but always being beaten by the baking soda volcano, even outside the science fair. The winner is a girl who constructed a set of Mechanical Arms to build a baking soda volcano.