Stress and competition take their toll on each friend’s quest to take home the winning prize at the Pootatuck science fair.

There’s witty and then there’s super witty.  100 Things continues to be super witty.This would make a great companion piece to Ned’s Declassified.

It’s science fair time!  Fenwick is determined to win again – and triumph over Mindy Minus.  Crispo seems challenged to find a science fair project.  CJ’s challenge is that her older brother Ronbie has won almost every academic and science fair award in Pootatuck.  They are tough shoes to fill.  Even worse, the entire phalanx of Ronbie’s awards are in fully view of CJ’s bedroom.  All CJ has to show – her lonely stuffed animal.

Each of our fearless middle schoolers goes on his or her own journey to find success in the science fair.  Fenwick engages in a war of one upmanship with Mindy.  Watching the two of them blast each other’s robots with potatoes is a hoot – as is Fenwick’s responses to Mindy’s team of programmers.

Crispo’s science fair ideas are lame.  He hops on his feet – and believes that as long as he has goggles and clipboard, he’s ok.  His final project: himself.  Seeing him sitting in front of the trifold board as his own project was priceless.

CJ’s fresh out of ideas until Ronbie suggests that her list is actually her project.  It’s probably one of the best experiments you could do – testing the challenge of middle school.

The science fair is filled with projects galore – until Fenwick’s robot blasts potatoes all over the place, leaving only Crispo’s project standing.  He’s declared the winner.  No trophy or ribbon for CJ.

In one of the sweetest scenes in the series, Ronbie takes all of his trophies and renames them all as “Best Sister” or some title such as that.  The dynamic between Ronbie and CJ is true brother/sister and Ehrich and Moner make that dynamic happen.

I love the writing on 100 Things and Fellows has managed, once again, to bring together a troop of actors who take what some might suggest are bizarre stories and make them believable.  That’s not easy at all!  Bravo!