Science Fair Competition Generates Excitement and Promotes Creative Thinking in Japan

Educators in the U.S. and Japan have developed an international program to promote creative thinking in science. Their program includes a science fair component. This paper (which has been presented in both the U.S. and Japan) discusses creativity and describes a science fair activity, that the authors recently carried out in Japan. The special program in creative education is sponsored by the Northern New York Section of the American Chemical Society and by Suzuka National College of Technology in Japan.