Step 1: 

Every teacher that has students attending needs to be registered first

Step 2: 

Every participating project needs to create an account

Step 3: 

Get your project pre-approved before you begin your experimentation

Step 4: 

Every project and all its students need to be registered in order to participate

Step 5: 

All participating projects and students are required to submit ISEF forms and media releases

Step 6: 

All participating projects are required to submit Virtual Entry documents

Every teacher with participating student needs to be registered first. There is no penalty for submitting this registration and not having any participating students. Teachers are encouraged to register themselves as soon as possible, to expedite project registration process.

If your school/teacher is not participating in our program, you can still register as a home school project. You still need to register teacher for official participation. Use your last name as a school name and register student's parent or guardian as a teacher.

Each project that wants to participate at our fair will need to create an account. Via the use of the project account, you will be able to add students to your project, submit your pre-approval paperwork & abstract (step 3), project registration (step 4) and submit your final ISEF forms and media releases (step 5) for your project.

All projects planning to participate at our science fair need to complete the ISEF Rules Wizard by answering a few questions about your project. At the end of the questionnaire you will be presented with required ISEF forms, which you will need to fill out appropriately.

If ISEF Rules Wizard determined you need IRC and/or IRB approval (form 1C, 2, 3, 4, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B and/or 7) your completed ISEF forms must be submitted for pre-approval, before any experimentation can begin; as construction, research, or testing is NOT permitted until your paperwork is approved. Doing otherwise or failing to submit pre-approval paperwork when required, will prevent your participation at our fair or limit the number of awards your project can receive.

Once your paperwork is sumitted for pre-approval, our staff will review your project and inform you and your teacher of the outcome along with any additional steps that may be needed for pre-approval completion. Please note that you will need to upload all the required paperwork for your project at once, as determined by the ISEF Rules Wizard. You can only upload PDF, JPEG, DOC and DOCX file formats where total upload size does not exceed 8MB. If you don't have a scanner, you can use your cell phone to take a picture of filled out pre-approval paperwork and upload the picture instead.

Incomplete forms will be rejected, thus delaying your project. Projects that fail to submit their paperwork on time will not be eligible for special awards and 1st place in their category.

Only projects/students that will be participating at our fair should complete this registration step. If you are not sure of your participation, do not complete this part of the registration. There is maximum limit of (3) students per project account and project ID; and only one project per project ID. All project team members must be registered on same project account. Do not create independent project accounts for each team member.

If after you register you decide not to participate at our fair, please contact us and let us know as soon as possible so that we may remove your registration and assign your judges to another participating project.

All participating students/projects are required to review all our participation, safety and display rules before attending our event.

After you registered your project, you can upload a complete set of ISEF forms as determined by completing the ISEF Rules Wizard. All projects and students need to submit ISEF forms online regardless of the fact if they needed SRC or IRB approval. Please note that you will need to upload all the required ISEF forms for your project at once. You can only upload PDF, JPEG, DOC and DOCX file formats where total upload size does not exceed 8MB. If you don't have a scanner, you can use your cell phone to take a picture of filled out pre-approval paperwork and upload the picture instead.

Abstract is required for all projects regardless if they need pre-approval. Abstract, with 250 word limit, should list the purpose of the research hypothesis, the procedures used, the data, and the conclusions. In the case of engineering projects the abstract need only convey what the student is attempting to build, no hypothesis is needed. The only requirement for entry is that the engineering project work after its completion. The projects should be described in a lucidly written paragraph. It is recommended that students keep several copies of their abstract by the project for public/judge review.

Media release is required for all participating students, or parent of a student if student is under 18 years of age. Students without a valid media release form (pdf) will not be allowed to participate at the event.

Incomplete forms will be rejected, thus delaying your project. Projects that fail to submit their paperwork on time will not be eligible for special awards and 1st place in their category.

Video Submission - All participating projects regardless if they are attending in person or virtually are required to submit a presentation video no longer than 3-minutes. Videos will need to be uploaded to YouTube as unlisted video and link submitted with your virtual entry. See this guide on uploading a YouTube video.

Digital Poster Board - All participating projects regardless if they are attending in person or virtually are required to submit a digital poster board file. This needs to be a PDF document that contains all the elements of your poster board including but not limited to title, question, hypothesis, data/graphs, results, images, conclusion,...

Quad Chart - All participating projects regardless if they are attending in person or virtually are required to submit a Quad Chart. Refer to quad chart instructions when creating your file.

If your program does not natively support saving in PDF, you can use a free online service like Smallpdf to convert a variety of files to PDF.