Have you ever seen the Intel science fair? There really are some kids who do amazing science research in H.S. Although more and more of these top science fair projects are done when the students "interns" at a lab. And from what I hear the judges do sometimes telling have a hard time telling if the student is really doing the work, or just helping in the lab and writing the project up. It's one of the reason's they interview each student privately.
But the majority of these teens really do amazing work.
