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Once you have selected a topic in an area of science in which you have some particular interest, experience or resources available to you, you may begin registration for ScienceMONTGOMERY. The following is a guide. You can also email SciMONT@aol.com to ask questions and sign up for one or both of the Fall workshops about rules and help with other Fair requirements.
1. Read the ScienceMONTGOMERY Guidelines and then the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) rules which apply to your project area. You will find these under Students—Rules. ScienceMONTGOMERY Guidelines for projects generally follow those of Intel ISEF. There are some rules specific to ScienceMONTGOMERY, however, which you should read first. Print any forms you will need from these sites. Some project areas need more forms than others.
2. If you know that your project involves human subjects, vertebrates or potentially hazardous biological agents (cultured microorganisms, R-DNA, fresh tissue, blood or body fluids, parasites) you will have sections of the rules that apply exclusively to your project. Your research design must be approved by a Review Committee before you begin your work. This committee may be formed at your school, your laboratory, or you may submit your plan to ScienceMONTGOMERY for review. All plans to be reviewed by ScienceMONTGOMERY must be received by December 1. While we will do this review as quickly as possible, it may be as much as a month before you get the results of our review.
3. Log on to www.ScienceMONTGOMERY.org--Students—Registration to complete your online registration. Your email address must be used anytime you re-access this registration page, along with a password which will be emailed to you once you have registered. Once you have filled in all required information (marked by * ), click on [Register]. A screen with all your information, and spaces for you and your parent or guardian to sign, will appear. Print this page, sign it and have your parent sign it. You must turn in this page with the other forms on or before the registration deadline in February.
Every person participating in ScienceMONTGOMERY must register online, including each member of any team project.
Online registration must be completed before 9 PM on the February registration deadline. Use your password and email address to log on to your online registration if you need to make changes, and to read the SRC Decision box in February.
4. When you have completed your research plan and all forms which are required for your project, send the paperwork along with a $10/student, non-refundable registration fee to ScienceMONTGOMERY, 4117 Barnsley Lane, Olney MD 20832. The paper can also be emailed, in PDF format, to SciMONT@aol.com. For MPCS students, this registration packet can be sent via PONY to ScienceMONTGOMERY c/o New Hampshire Estates Elementary School. All registration packets must have arrived at these addresses on or before the registration deadline in February.
5. The ScienceMONTGOMERY Scientific Review Committee will meet the day after the registration deadline, in February. The results of that review will appear in the SRC Decision Box on your registration page, and be emailed to you. If you are approved, skip to #6. If there are missing items, they will be listed here. You will have 3 weeks to provide any missing requirements (mail, email, Pony) and still participate in the Fair. Regretfully, those projects which have not met requirements and followed all safety rules, cannot participate in ScienceMONTGOMERY. This decision, too, will appear in the SRC Decision Box.
6. Arrive and set up your project on Friday, at the College Park University of Maryland, Armory Building from 4 to 9 PM. While you are there, a member of the safety committee will inspect your display to see that it meets all requirements (found in the Intel ISEF rules, pages 6-8). Correct any problems they find and get approved for safety.
You’re ready for a good time. Have fun asking questions of the judges, and talking to your peers about their projects.
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