Project Display and Safety Regulations
Page address: http://www.mnsu.edu/sciencefair/school/allowed.html
Allowed at Project or in Booth BUT with the Restrictions Indicated
- Soil or waste samples if permanently sealed in a slab of acrylic
- Postal addresses, World Wide Web and e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and fax numbers of Finalist only
- Photographs and/or visual depictions if:
- They are not deemed offensive or inappropriate by the Scientific Committee, the Display and Safety Committee, or Science Services. This includes, but is not limited to, visually offensive photographs or visual depictions of invertebrate or vertibrate animals, including humans. The decision by any of the groups mentioned above is final.
- Credit lines of their origins ("Photograph taken by" or "Image taken from") are attached. (If all photographs being displayed were taken by the Finalist or are from the same source, one credit line prominently displayed is sufficient.)
- They are from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, journals, etc., and credit lines are attached. (If all photographs/images are from the same source, one credit prominently displayed is sufficient.)
- They are photographs or visual depictions of the Finalist
- They are photographs of human subjects for which signed consent forms are at the project or in the booth. (Human Subjects Form 4 or equivalent photograph release signed by the human subject must be included on the Intel ISEF Official Abstract and Certification.)
- Any apparatus with unshielded belts, pulleys, chains, or moving parts with tension or pinch points if for display only and not operated
- Class II lasers if:
- The output energy is <1 mW and is operated only by the Finalist
- Operated only during Display and Safety inspection and during judging
- Labeled with a sign reading, "Laser Radiation: Do Not Look into Beam"
- Enclosed in protective housing that prevents physical and visual access to beam
- Disconnected when not operating
- Class II lasers are found in laser pointers and in aiming and rainge-finding devices. They pose a risk if the beam is directly viewed over a long period of time.
Class III and IV lasers if for display only and not operated
Any apparatus producing temperatures that will cause physical burns if adequately insulated
The only forms that may be displayed by attaching them to the front of the provided table are the forms listed in the section of the rules entitled "Required to be Visible and Vertically Displayed at the Intel ISEF."