Completing the Forms

Junior/Senior High Division

Every Student Needs the Following

• Checklist for Adult Sponsor Form (1): This form is required by all projects and must be completed prior to experimenting.
• Student Checklist (1A) or Student Checklist (1A) Team: One of these forms is required for all projects and must be completed prior to experimenting. This year the research plan is part of the student checklist. Student will be typing their own research plan on a piece of paper. The following need to be included: A. Question being addressed. B. Hypothesis/Problem/Engineering Goals. C. Description in detail of method or procedures. All projects will include Procedures, Data Analysis, Bibliographymust be completed and dated before the start of the experiment. Note the starting date of the experiment must be after the date of the signatures on Form (1B). This form is to explain the plan for research and experimentation and must accompany Student Checklist Form (1A).
• Approval Form (1B): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment. If you have a student that has a project with experimentation involving humans, your school must have an IRB Committee. On Form 1B, #2 is for Prior Approval and #3 is for Approval the day of the fair.

Projects Involving Humans, Vertebrate Animals or Pathogenic Agents

(See the required certification forms for each area at http://www.societyforscience.org/isef)

• Regulated Research Institutional/Industrial Setting Form (1C). This form is to be completed after the experiment is finished.
• Abstract. This form is to be completed for each project exhibit and research paper after the experiment is finished.
• Qualified Scientist Form (2): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Risk Assessment Form (3): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Human Subjects Form (4): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment. Again, if you have a student that has a project with experimentation of humans, your school must have an IRB Committee. Science Service requires all affiliated fairs to appoint a Scientific Review Committee (SRC) of at least three people. The SRC must include one biomedical scientist (Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., or D.O.), one science educator, and one other member . One member must be familiar with proper animal care procedures when animal research is involved. The SRC must review and approve projects involving restricted areas of research before experimentation is started.
• Vertebrate Animal Form (5A or 5B): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Potentially Hazardous Biological Agents Form (6A): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Human and Vertebrate Animal Tissue Form (6B): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Continuation Projects Form (7): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.

General Information for the Junior/Senior High Division

• Dates must be in the same handwriting as the signature and must occur before the start of the research. That means all the signatures and dates on Form 1B must be correct along with all IRB and SRC signatures. No typed dates.
• This project year includes research conducted over a maximum 12 month period during 2008-2009.
• A continuing project must have all previous years forms.
• The student should submit a copy of his/her certification forms by Friday, January 16, 2009 for the Junior/Senior High Division and by Monday, March 30, 2009 for the Elementary Division to the South Central/Southwest Minnesota Regional Science & Engineering Fair Office. If the student advances to the Minnesota Academy of Science State Science Fair or Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, they must send a copy of the forms. Students should always keep the original to bring along to the fair.
• Handouts are limited to the abstract only. All students (Grades 7-12) must submit an abstract. The abstract must only reflect experiments performed in the last year. You must not list names of people, companies or universities in your abstract (or on your display board).

Elementary Division

Every Student Needs the Following

• Elementary Project Approval Form.
• Research Notebook or Log: On fair day, each project should have a research notebook or log that documents the procedures, the data collected and analysis, and bibliography.

Projects Involving Humans and Vertebrate Animals Need the Additional Forms

(See the Required Certification Forms for Each Area.)

• Qualified Scientist Form (2): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Human Subjects Form (4): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment. Again, if you have a student that has a project with experimentation of humans, your school must have an IRB Committee. Science Service requires all affiliated fairs to appoint a Scientific Review Committee (SRC) of at least three people. The SRC must include one biomedical scientist (Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., or D.O.), one science educator, and one other member . One member must be familiar with proper animal care procedures when animal research is involved. The SRC must review and approve projects involving restricted areas of research before experimentation is started.
• Vertebrate Animal Form (5A or 5B): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.
• Continuation Projects Form (7): This form must be completed and dated before the start of the experiment.

General Information for the Elementary Division

• This project year includes research conducted over a maximum 12 month period during 2007-2008.
• A continuing project must have all previous years forms.
• The student/team should submit a copy of their certification forms by Monday, March 30, 2009 for the Elementary Division to the South Central/Southwest Minnesota Regional Science & Engineering Fair Office. Students should always keep the original to bring along to the fair.