She looked at her watch. I thought she was gasping at the time. She said really fast, “You don’t have a hypothesis. You’ve got to have a hypothesis. You want to have a hypothesis. The judges won’t look if you don’t have a hypothesis. You need a hyothesis– I mean hypothesis. Hypothesis, hypothesis. You just simply need one.”
Then she put her hands on her knees and looked at me really close.
She said, “Now what you’re going to do is you are going to take your project home, even though its due today. The judges are coming tomorrow.”
She looked at me intently. I nodded to tell her I understood.
She continued, “I, as the science project project teacher— or the math project teacher— give you special permission to go and take this home. A few other students are also doing this.”
She looked at me again. I nodded.
“Now, you will take the board home and you’re going to stick on your hypothesis. Then you are going to bring it back to this very room that you’re standing in.” (She meant the room behind the stage.)
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