Key aspects of successful science fair projects

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Table 1. Overlook of Czech counties.

County	Capital of county	Number of projects	Portion of inhabitants with university education	Number of universities	Biology at the university	Czech Academy of Sciences - biology
Jihomoravský	Brno	65	21.8	5	yes	yes
Praha (capital)	Prague	38	35.9	8	yes	yes
Jihočeský	České Budějovice	29	15.9	2	yes	yes
Středočeský	Prague	25	17.9	0	no	yes
Moravskoslezský	Ostrava	25	16.4	3	yes	No
Zlínský	Zlín	24	16.3	1	no	No
Ústecký	Ústí nad Labem	23	11.3	1	yes	No
Vysočina	Jihlava	22	14.2	1	no	No
Olomoucký	Olomouc	21	16.5	1	yes	No
Královéhradecký	Hradec Králové	21	14.7	1	yes	No
Plzeňský	Pilsen	19	15.4	1	yes	No
Liberecký	Liberec	18	14.2	1	no	No
Pardubický	Pardubice	14	14.6	1	no	No
Karlovarský	Karlovy Vary	10	10.5	0	no	No

Notes: The administrative capital, number of projects accepted for the SPA national round, portion of county’s inhabitants with university education, number of universities within the region, presence of biology or medical programme taught at the universities, and presence of an institution of Czech Academy of Science with biology or medical focus.

Compiled with the use of Czech Statistical Office (2021) and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (n.d.).

Table 2. The numbers of projects that used statistics were published and suggested future research.

No of projects	Statistics used	Published	Future research suggested
Yes	94 (27%)	82 (23%)	201 (57%)
No	234 (66%)	246 (69%)	127 (36%)
Not specified	26 (7%)	26 (7%)	26 (7%)

Figure 1. Ranking of projects according to branches of biology.

Figure 2. Ranking of projects according to the counties.

Figure 3. Numbers of laboratory and field projects over the ten analysed years.

Table 3. Biology branches over years.

Year	Zoology	Cell biology	Botany	Human biology	Ecology	Mycology	Microbiology	Others
32	15	3	3	4	5	0	2	0
33	10	3	7	3	4	0	2	1
34	13	5	4	1	5	0	4	0
35	11	3	7	4	6	0	5	0
36	10	7	8	3	6	1	3	1
37	8	5	6	0	7	1	0	0
38	10	11	5	1	7	0	3	1
39	8	8	3	0	5	2	5	1
40	11	8	6	3	4	1	5	0
41	14	9	9	2	2	0	2	0
Total	110	62	58	21	51	5	31	4

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