NWSE-HS Competition Status

This Sheet should be marked for a recheck when corrections are made. Make corrections ASAP, or judges will not score your project. Judges start April 1st.

Your video and slide deck are due March 30, make sure they follow the requirements. Also pasted below

Create a slide deck or PowerPoint to share with judges instead of a poster. Add this file to your Google Folder as “view only” by the March 30 deadline.

  1. Format as either Google Slide or PDF.
  2. Do not add notes to a slide.
  3. No school, mentor or teacher names. This includes acknowledgements.
  4. No active links or video clips. 
  5. Minimum font size of 10pt for labels, 12 pt or larger for main information.
  6. Maximum of 15 slides. Only 6 are defined as required, the additional 9 are for you to use as needed. Expand or highlight the best parts of your project.

Science Inquiry Projects should include:

  • Title page with student name, project question and hypothesis.
    1. Project title and your name
    2. What question were you trying to answer?
    3. What hypothesis did you propose as an answer to your question?
  • Procedures/Methods 
    1. Describe the design of the experiment(s) you used to test your hypothesis. Identify the variables in your experimental design, including how you controlled for any that could interfere with interpreting your results.
  • Results: data tables, graphs, etc
    1. What data did you collect?
    2. How did you collect it?
  • Analysis and Conclusions
    1. How did you analyze your data? 
      1. If you used Statistical analysis be specific for the Special Award judges.
    2. What conclusions did you reach and how do your data support them? 
    3. Describe any limitations to your work that might have affected your results? 
  • Bibliography page: list sources and how you came up with the idea for your project. This is the only page which allows website links to source materials.
  • “Takeaways” slide: answer these questions
    1. What surprised you about your results?
    2. What changes would you make to expand your project? Next steps?
    3. What is the best thing you learned from this? Favorite moment?

Engineering Design Projects should include:

  • Project Title page with student name, problem statement and criteria for solution.
    1. Project title and your name
    2. What problem were you trying to solve?
    3. What solution to the problem did you propose?
  • Design and methods
    1. Describe what you designed or built to solve the problem or improve on existing approaches. 
  • Construction and testing protocol
    1. What criteria did you use to determine whether your solution was effective? 
    2. How did you apply these criteria?
  • Results
    1. Did the solution you created work?
    2. Were the criteria you used able to give a clear-cut answer?
    3. Were there any criteria that you wanted to apply but were unable to?
    4. Describe if you applied statistical methods or used any special analysis?
  • Bibliography page: list sources and how you came up with the idea for your project. This is the only page which allows website links to source materials.
  • “Takeaways” slide: answer these questions
    1. What surprised you about your results?
    2. What changes would you make to expand your project? Next steps?
    3. What is the best thing you learned from this? Favorite moment?

Math and Computer Science projects should use the parts from either Science Inquiry or Engineering Design which best fits their project. 

3 minute video of your project Required for Virtual fairs

Your 3 minute video should offer judges a brief overview of your project. This is an “elevator pitch” for your project. Highlight the very best/exciting thing about your project. Sharing as a link is best, we do not want judges to have to download anything.

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