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Check out: Tips and Advice from ISEF Alumni (link to ISEF website article)

Students: You can maximize the return on your effort by entering both the project fair and the research paper competition with the same work! Also, check our LINKS page for additional competitions that you might be able to enter all with the same project!

What Happens to Forms After the Fair?

If you are advancing to state or international competition you must collect your forms after the awards ceremony. Make sure you or your sponsor pick up your forms--the forms will not be saved for you. If you are an alternate for state competition, you must send your forms to the Minnesota Academy of Science (MAS) after you are notified of becoming an alternate. TCRSF is not responsible for forms left at the fair. Even if you do not advance to the next level, you should pick up your forms and file them if you are in grades 6-11.

Save and file your original forms after the fair because they may be required if you do a project in a similar field of science the following year (even if you do not intend the project to be a continuation, and even if it is not a continuation, but it is in a similar field of study/science or if you used information that you learned in doing a previous project)! For team members, each team member should keep their own copy of the paperwork. Some students who have done a team project have needed their team paperwork even when doing an individual project in a similar field of study in a subsequent year.

Notice About Shoes

You must wear rubber-soled, flat shoes at the University Field House. The building has an athletic floor surface that can be damaged by high heels or non-rubber soles. If your shoes don't comply with this requirement, you will be asked to remove your shoes.