Abstract form

Paste your abstract and check off a few boxes about what your research entailed. It is mostly for ISEF, but it is important to fill it out for WESEF as well to give the judges a quick snapshot of your project.


Informed consent

This is a crucial form if you are conducting the research yourself on human participants

Gives the participants a background of your project, the risks, and asks for their signatures and consent of you conducting research on them. You need this or else you will be disqualified if you did research yourself on humans.


Human participants form

Sample IRB, which is like an informed consent form, but if we did research on humans at a regulated research institution or used data that came from a regulated research institution

This form is a sample, so often the research institution will provide you with their own IRB.


Qualified scientist

Quick form your mentor will fill out to explain their background in science and give information directly from them on what was involved in your study


Regulated research institution

Completed by the supervising adult at your research facility if you did research at one. It details what the conditions were like in the lab, what equipment was used and how it was used by the student, and how independent the student waas in their work.


Approval form 1b

About risks and academic honesty through science research and competitions

To be signed by you, your parents, and other people working at the future science fairs you present at


1a Student Checklist and Research Plan

To be completed before you begin your project and it discusses the details of your project, your school, your location of research, general contact information, and includes a section where you go into detail about your future project. You discuss rationale, hypothesis, procedures, risks, questions, and many other aspects. This is so important because you always need plan before you begin a project


Adult sponsor checklist

Filled out by your teacher nd you must provide them with the information to correctly fill it out