Dates and Schedule

Dates & Deadlines

Format

• Preliminary Judging for Junior and Senior students will occur prior to the fair based on the submitted slides.
• Final Judging for all students will be in-person.
  • Senior Finalists will be presenting to judges with their slides uploaded for Preliminary Judging.
  • All other students will be judged at their display boards.

Resources for Science and Engineering at Home

• ISEF Science at Home Resource Page
• FRSEF Student's Page
• FRSEF Project Guides: Part 1  Part 2

UM-F Campus Tours

Students and parents are invited to tour the UM-F Murchie Science Building Saturday afternoon after judging. You may reserve a spot by registering here: https://umflintcampus.secure.force.com/events#/esr?eid=a124W00000OFS5oQAH

Junior & Senior

There will be two rounds of judging:

• Preliminary Round: Projects will be scored by judges based on students' online submitted materials.
• Final Round: Judging interviews
  •  All submitted materials will be available to judges prior to and during the interviews.
  • All students (finalist and non-finalist) will have interviews.
  • Senior:  Finalist interviews will be presentations with judges and a projector in a separate room
    • Only materials allowed for presentation are the Display Slides submitted for Preliminary Judging
    • Students can bring in hands-on models or prototypes.
  • Junior:  Interviews will take place at student's display board

Materials for Judging

Templates for all can be found on the Templates webpage and the registration site

• With Registration / Before Start of Experimentation (submitted via the online registration portal)
  • Research Plan
    • Information on this is available when you register and add a project.
  • SRC Forms 1, 1a, 1b
  • All SRC Forms for projects requiring pre-approval (ex. Human Subjects, Bacteria)
• By March 1 at 11:59 PM EST  (submitted via the online registration portal)
  • Display Slides
    • Template does not have to be followed, provided as a starting point.
    • Only pdf files are accepted.
    • Maximum of 12 slides
  • Special Awards Form
    • Available in the registration portal.
  • Research Report (optional)
• Bring to Fair
  • Display Board
    • Can be display slides printed and placed on a tri-fold
  • Logbook / Research Notebook (optional)

Elementary

There will be one round of judging:

• Judging interviews
  •  All submitted materials will be available to judges prior to and during the interviews, but will not be scored.
  • All students will have interviews
  • Interviews will take place at student's display board

Materials for Judging

Templates for all can be found on the Templates webpage and the registration site

• With Registration / Before Start of Experimentation (submitted via the online registration portal)
  • Research Plan
    • Information on this is available when you register and add a project.
  • SRC Forms 1, 1a, 1b
  • All SRC Forms for projects requiring pre-approval (ex. Human Subjects, Bacteria)
• By March 1 at 11:59 PM EST  (submitted via the online registration portal)
  • • Last day to register.
• Bring to Fair
  • Display Board
    • Can be display slides printed and placed on a tri-fold
  • Research Report (optional)
  • Logbook / Research Notebook (optional)

*Note, SRC Paperwork is required as part of project registration and is available within the registration portal.  Projects requiring pre-approval need to be submitted by January 15.

Does my project need pre-approval and what forms do I need?? - Use the ISEF Rules Wizard to find out!