Guidance to the ISEF web site
The ISEF web site is a sprawling place, where it can be tough to find the page or form you're looking for. To help you out, here are links to some important or key pages, with a brief explanation of why you might want to visit them.
- Completing a Science Fair Project. Summary rules and advice for students. This page links to pages with a short student handbook, tips from ISEF alumni, and guidance on writing your abstract and designing your display.
-
ISEF 2010 Rules and Guidelines. This page links to all of ISEF's rules
and guidance.
- HIGHLIGHTS for 2009 - May 2010. This document describes the ISEF rules changes for 2010.
- SRC 101 PowerPoint Presentation. The ISEF SRC has made available an SRC 101 PowerPoint presentation that can be a tool in giving workshops on the Rules and Guidelines. Share with your IRB and SRC members, teachers, and any others interested in an overview of the International Rules. (Note: MS PowerPoint needs to be installed on your machine to view this.)
- Overview of Forms and Dates. This lists and describes all of the ISEF forms; it gives tips on how and when to fill them out. (The EISEF Forms Guide derives in part from this page.)
- ISEF SRC/IRB Guidelines. Four pages of detailed instructions on how to set up and run an SRC and/or IRB at your school.
- Intel ISEF Rules Wizard guides you in choosing which forms you need to fill out and submit for your exhibit.
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Common
Scientific Research Committee (SRC) Problems means just that: it outlines
common pitfalls with projects and paperwork so you can avoid them. Here
are its subsections:
- Top Five Intel ISEF Paperwork Problems
- Top Five Intel ISEF SRC Problems (Guaranteed to require an interview)
- Top 10 SRC Problems from Regional SRC Reports
- ISEF Research Category Descriptions. ISEF has 17 research categories; EISEF combines these into just two. The ISEF category descriptions contain extra detail that may help you decide what EISEF category your project belongs in.