Hey guys, I had a question about the research plan instructions by Rishab in his Research Plan video for science fair. For the rationale, Sahil Sudd talks about how to write a proper rationale, and I wondered if it is it okay to look at your problem from a global standpoint, but discuss that you are "pursuing this research project" for a different other reason other than "to better the quality of people who face this disease (or problem) (neurodegenerative diseases specifically as Sahil gives the example)"?

Welcome to Rishab Academy! There are too many yappers online these days - which retract from the usefulness of interest groups. I am giving $1000 to the first person to reach level 7 on the leaderboard in this community. Watch the video below for more info. We are a community of highly motivated students. The group is invite-only at this time to maintain a highly selective group of top achievers/high potential individuals. Our goal is to collaborate on research, win top awards in STEM, and make use of opportunities. Here's how to get started: - Set up your Skool profile: add a profile picture, bio, and social links (i.e. LinkedIn) - Introduce yourself to others to network and make connections in the post here: https://www.skool.com/qurios/the-reddit-replacement?p=0280b802 - Make your own unique contributions. High quality posts receive upvotes from your peers, which advances your placement on the Rishab Academy leaderboard. Level 5 unlocks a 1 hour call with Rishab, and Level 7 unlocks a $1,000 prize for contributing. - Do not use AI or ChatGPT to write posts or comments. If suspected / low quality responses = ban. - Some ideas for your first post: your thoughts on college admissions or research, a narrative about your experiences, or share resources/opportunities with other students. These are highly likely to be upvoted. - Check out the courses. There are many free resources as well as paid ones you can get access to. Get involved in other Rishab Academy initiatives: - https://internationalresearcholympiad.org - ScienceFair.io: coming soon - And more soon to come!

I have questions about the 3M Young Scientist Challenge so that I may participate in it this year: 1. Do I have to make a 1-2 minute long video that addresses a problem that impacts me, my family, community, and/or the globe? 2. Can this solution be in a particular field of science even though the topic list on your website describe areas of engineering such as robotics, home improvement, safety, AR/VR, climate technology, et cetera? 3. Does my video have to describe a solution in the sense that I should engineer a solution (make a product that fixes a problem)? 4. For the summer internship, there are calls with 3M Scientists to help finalists make the real-life solution to the problem, so do finalists have to come to the Minneapolis center for it? 5. This year I will also be participating in other science fairs and competitions, in which I will have to make a product for them, instead of acquiring help from 3M scientists during a summer mentorship program as your wonderful competition incorporates. Thus, this creation of a product might affect my participation in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, so what is your advice? 6. Are there new themes and rules annually which govern how I and on what I make my project? 7. How long do I have to create my video and when is this time constraint? 8. What do I have to do for this challenge and what is the timeline?

So a while ago and I mean months ago. I messaged Rishab privately about someone who had attempted tp use me to like farm, so naturally I reported it along with screenshots and nothing has been done. This person (who I will not name as I don't want for them to get unneeded abuse) is one of the highly ranked people here and my assumption is, if they did it to me they must have done it to other people. have given the admins months to fix this and as much as I love being part of this community and I know that this not Rishab's fault as it's impossible to catch everything, I still feel like I have a right to be annoyed and I feel like this needs to be rectified. (Sorry for the rant)

I know this might not seem like a very reasonable post, because I completely understand that Rishab is very busy with everything that's going on with his activities (and I have to say, I truly appreciate what he's doing to help students). But I thought that the reason for a switch to skool was so that we would be able to reach out & easily communicate with him if needed, and it would allow for a more controlled setting (just wondering). Let me know if this seems unreasonable, please don't hate!