High school science fair: Student opinions regarding whether participation should be required or optional and why

• Frederick Grinnell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frederick.grinnell@utsouthwestern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology,UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5337-3087

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• Simon Dalley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Karen Shepherd,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plano Independent School District, Plano, Texas, United States of America

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• Joan Reisch

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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