Science can be applied to every aspect of our daily lives. Use everyday materials to investigate, gather, and analyze information about the world around us. Work on hands-on projects designed to deepen your understanding of science and create a lifelong habit of inquiry. Take home your inventions. Many view science as a remote fi eld performed by distant professionals with secret laboratories and expensive tools. Schools and even many college courses focus on memorization of facts and information that science has brought to the world, rather than true essence of science: the scientific process