A student looking for ideas for the next science fair might get some ideas from the July 1966 issue of Elementary Electronics, which gives some pointers on home electroplating. You probably have most of the components lying around the house, or readily available. If you don’t have the transformers shown here, it’s possible to do it with batteries. Even though the old-fashioned dry cells aren’t available, a set of alkalines from the dollar store will do just fine. You need an anode of the metal that you want to be the plating, and the cathode is the object you want to have plated. You just fire up the current, and the electricity does all of the work!