The NGU Writing Center has this handout that gives excellent advice on the prewriting stages.
Check out this page from the Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for more information on various brainstorming techniques.
Click here to watch award winning presentations in the Three Minute Thesis competition. You may see a presentation that sparks an idea.
Ask the professor who will be grading your work if you can see examples of excellent previous projects to get a feel for how yours should look.
The material below will help students through the brainstorming and planning process for their senior projects.