arduinosoccer33k:
after everything that I've tried, I never got the motor to work. I literally worked on this for days for many many hours. In the end I finally took apart an old remote control car, unsoldered the motor, and am using that for the science fair. I guess that I will save that servo/brushless DC motor for another day.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP
As things usually go, just after the science fair the answer to issue will be discovered.