SEFMD Resources

Resources  - as of 11/20/24

Registration - School and/or Teacher
    How to affiliate a school and/or teacher with the Science Fair with zFairs (revised 11/20/24)

 

Registration - Student
       Video Training:  Student Registration  (RT: 19:52)      https://youtu.be/fIzriOyo5wk
        Printed instructions

Registraton - Judges
       How to register as a Judge (category and/or Professional Society)

 


Program changes/bug fixes

Judge Categories    (pdf)

 

Promotional Video:  (What's it all about)
       
SEFMD video (by 9th grade University Liggett Student)

 

Getting Started:  (to help plan your time wisely)
         What is due when for 2023-2024
         Prior SRC Approval - powerpoint for 2023   pdf    powerpoint
        
Prior SRC Approval Needed flowchart (Senior Division Students only)
         How to do Science Research from
Home (by SSP)
         For the novice scientist, search 'Science Fair Booklet'
         Jet Propulsion Labs

         

Training Videos: (if hyperlinks do not work, use copy and paste direct links to YouTube)
      

           Risk Assessment Guide


Weekly Seminar Series for 2021-2022-2023 (Zoom Recordings - live)
      
10-27-22  Project Ideas     chat log

 

         10-14-21 Project Ideas
          10-20-21  SRC                    11-09-23 SRC
          10-28-21  Mentors
          11-04-21  No session
         11-11-21  Statistics

 

Project Ideas:
         
Testable Science Ideas
         
200 Project Ideas
         How to do Science Research from
Home (by SSP)
         Science Fair Projects by Grade Level from ThoughtCo
         Projects range from easy to challenging from
iit.edu
         EPA Helpful Hints   
         Projects by Grade Level, Well organized from education.com
         Projects for Pre-school to Grade 4 by TinkerLabs
         Science Fair Central - Well Organized, Good Information
         Energy and Environmental, search Student Resources - need.org
         For the novice scientist, search 'Science Fair Booklet'
         Science Fair-Projects.org - Variety
         Super-Science-Fair-Projects.com   Variety, reference materials
         Science Buddies.org - Great resources
         
www.all-science-fair-projects.com G. 6-12, IDEAS, VARIABLES EXPLAINED WELL
         
www.1000sciencefairprojects.com HS, WELL ORGANIZED
         
www.sciencea-z.com/main/resourcetype/type/science-fair-resources
         
www.sciencenotes.org/shopping-science-fair-project-ideas
         www.science.lovetoknow.com/science-fair-projects
         www.dummies.com/education/science-fair-projects-for-dummies-cheat-sheet
         
www.steampoweredfamily.com/education/how-to-prepare-for-the-science-fair-over-40-project-ideas-by-grade

           

Presentation:
         How to write an
abstract (adopted from OSEF)
         More Sample
Abstracts (from previous SEFMD participants)
         Display
Guidelines and Sample Display Board
         How to do a Science Fair Project (Presentation at Detroit Public LIbrary)  flyer/signup
         Video Upload Guidelines
(updated 2/16/22)
           Project Materials Guidelines (as an alternative to a display/poster board)  rev 2/14/22
              
Sample Project Presentation Templates*: Science Project            Engineering Project                  Math/Computer Science Project
                   
(Templates are Power Point files.  Download and update as necessary.   Save resulting file, 1 page/slide to PDF file and upload.
               
Quad Chart Example 1        Quad Chart Example 2
                  Quad Chart Examples from SEFMD  ISEF Finalists last year:  3   4   5   6   7
                    Sample Quad Chart Templates*: Science Project               Engineering Project                    Math/Computer Science Project
                         (Templates are Power Point files.  Download and update as necessary.   Save resulting file (1 page) to PDF file and upload.
                   
* Templates provided by Flint Science Fair and provided here with permission

            SEFMD Release Form (required for all projects)          Word Doc.     PDF

            

 Schools:
 

 Display and Safety Inspectors:
            Summary of Information-Signup Guidelines           .pdf
            Checklist of items      .pdf
 

 EMails to all affiliated Schools/Hints/Etc
          



EMails to Students: