Research Project

Student DOES NOT need to conduct their own experiment to enter. Personal experimentation is optional.

Video Guidelines

Introduction: Name, grade and title of your project

Arrange your video presentation in this order:

• Question: What question do you want to answer? What problem are you trying to solve?

• Purpose: Why is your question important? How can it help people?

• Research: What did you learn from your research? Highlight all of the interesting information you've learned.

• Hypothesis: Create an if... then statement. Can your hypothesis answer your question?

• Diagram: How does your diagram prove your hypothesis? Fully explain how your experiment would work.

• Summary: What did you learn? Recap all of the important parts of your project and answer your original question.

Video presentations cannot exceed 5 minutes.

Report Guidelines

• Synopsis of Project

• Title

  • Name of Project; consider something captivating for the title, followed by a more serious subtitle.

    • • • • Ex) Grow Up!; Do Plants Grow Faster Listening to Music?

• Question or Problem

  • What question do you want to answer? What problem are you trying to solve?

  • Your project should focus on answering your original question.

  • Suggested 1 - 2 sentences.

• Purpose

  • Why is your question important? Give some background on how your topic can help people.

  • Explain what interested you about your chosen topic.

  • End your discussion by completing this sentence: "The purpose of this project is... "

  • Suggested 1 paragraph.

• Research

  • Include relevant research for your question. Organize your research by asking questions you have about your topic.

Ex) Question: What is UV light?

Answer: It is a type of electromagnetic radiation.

• • Cite any resources you may include in your research.

    • • • No plagiarism is tolerated. Any plagiarism will, at minimum, result in a loss of all points in the corresponding category. Any student that submits plagiarized work will be reported and may be disqualified from the fair and their school administrators contacted.

  • Suggested 1 - 2 pages

• Hypothesis

  • Come up with an "if.. then..." statement to help frame your hypothesis.

    • Ex) If UV-C light has been effective for killing bacteria and other viruses, then it should kill the COVID-19 virus too.

  • Your hypothesis should answer your original question and state reasoning why you believe that answer.

• Experiment or Data

• How would you test your hypothesis? Write a short description of how your experiment would work.

• Draw a diagram of what your experiment would look like and how it be effective.

• You may either conduct your own experiment, or you may find a similar experiment through your research to show how it would be effective.

• No experimentation is required for this step. The data may be taken from your research.

• Suggested 2 - 5 sentences.

• Summary

  • Recap your research in a summary. Explain what you learned and answer your original question.

    • • • The answer you find and the answer you gave in your hypothesis do not need to match. If they don't match, explain why you think they so.

  • Include all of the important parts of your research, and how they proved or disproved your hypothesis.

  • Suggested 1 paragraph.

For more information, click here to see the rubric. We strongly encourage all participants to thoroughly read the rubric before making their final report.

Display Guidelines

You can choose either of the two to present.