Congratulations, ComplexMelody! The cool thing about this project is that it is so much like professional project because it involves finding test subjects, and creating control and experimental groups, and coming up with motivations, as well as the actual test and analysis of the results.
I really like the side panels that break things down into the step of the project (Problem, Hypothesis, Procedure, etc.) It looks very organized and well thought out. I can’t read what they actually say, but you might consider adding a Method section between Hypothesis and Procedure where you can explain how you found test subjects, why you split them into the groups that you did, how you determined the rewards and why they are reasonable, and what results you expect would prove or disapprove your hypothesis.
I also like the presentation. The pictures of the dice are nice and the mostly black and red theme gives it a very clean look. For the regionals I think you should consider cleaning up the middle section so that it looks as good as the side panels. Putting the pages in those tabs or some other kind of frame looks so much nicer than just pages stuck on a board. I like how you have the original data collection sheet there, but it is so wrinkled it would look better if it was flattened or laminated or something.
Back in my day, science fair projects almost always had some objects in front of the picture board that were related to the project, such as a model of the pyramids, or the plants grown during the project, or something interactive where people could look in a microscope or hang weights on a lever to test surface tension of different liquids, etc. (of course the most common was the baking soda volcano for the slackers). For example, for a project like this, it might have an
automatic dice tumbler where people can roll six dice and a sheet of graph paper with columns numbered 1 to 6 where people can fill in a box based on the number of sixes they get, along with a line showing the probability for each column and an explanation on why the records dice rolls will probably match the expectations. It sort of sets up a mini experiment and gives something to do. But it doesn’t look like people do that much anymore.
And just to be pedantic, it appears that this experiment actually tests telekinesis rather than psychic power because the rewards are for people who can use their mind to cause the dice to come up with more sixes rather than people being able to psychically predict the results of a throw of the dice.
Anyway, nice project. I expect you learned a lot. And good luck at regionals!
