Project Display and Safety Regulations

NOT ALLOWED at Project or in Booth:

• Living organisms (i.e., plants, animals, microbes)
• Taxidermy specimens or parts
• Preserved vertebrate or invertebrate animals
• Human or animal food
• Human/animal parts or body fluids (for example, blood, urine) – Exceptions: teeth, hair, nails, dried animal bones, histological dry mount sections, and completely sealed wet mount tissue slides.

• Plant materials (living, dead or preserved) which are in their raw, unprocessed or non-manufactured state – Exception: manufactured construction materials used in building the project or display.
• All chemicals including water – Exceptions: water integral to an enclosed apparatus or water supplied by the Display and Safety Committee.

• All hazardous substances or devices [for example, poisons, drugs, firearms, weapons, ammunition, reloading devices, and lasers (as indicated in item 5 in the section of these rules entitled "Allowed at Project or Booth BUT with the Restrictions Indicated:)]
• Dry ice or other sublimating solids
• Sharp items (for example, syringes, needles, pipettes, knives)
• Flames or highly flammable materials
• Batteries with open-top cells
• Awards, medals, business cards, flags, endorsements and/or acknowledgements (graphic or written) unless the item(s) are an integral part of the project
• Photographs or other visual presentations depicting vertebrate animals in surgical techniques, dissections, necropsies, or other lab procedures
• Active Internet or e-mail connections as part of displaying or operating the project at the Intel ISEF
• Prior years' written material or visual depictions on the vertical display board. [Exception: th project title displayed in the Finalist's booth may mention years or which year the project is (for example, "Year Two of an Ongoing Study")]. Continuation project must have the Coninuation Project Form (7) vertically displayed.
• Glass or glass objects unless deemed by the Display and Safety Committee to be an integral and necessary part of the project – (Exception: glass that is an integral part of a commercial product such as a computer screen)
• Any apparatus deemed unsafe by the Scientific Review Committee, the Display and Safety Committee, or Science Service (for example, large vacuum tubes or dangerous ray-generating devices, empty tanks that previously contained combustible liquids or gases, pressurized tanks, etc.)