Abstracts

 Download the 2009 Abstract Book

2010 Abstracts will not be accepted until after Christmas

Your abstract is a concise summary of your project (200-300 words) including: the major hypothesis or problem studied, a summary of procedures used, your principle findings, and major conclusions.

1. Please use the webform at http://www.evergreenscience.com/scifair/abstract.php to submit your abstract.
2. Your final abstract must be submitted before March 6, 2009.  Abstracts submitted late will not appear in the hard copy of the abstract book, and will lose points for being late.
3. Points will be deducted for abstracts over 300 words.
4. Spelling and grammer mistakes will lower your score.  The webform does not spell check.  It is best to type your abstract in a wordprocessor, spell-check it, and copy and paste it into the web form. 
5. DO NOT USE ANY SYMBOLS (including quotation marks, degree or fraction symbols) in the text.  Do not put a heading at the top.
6. Your abstract will be scored by the judge for readability and content.  It should include the major hypothesis or problem studied, a summary of procedures used, your principle findings, and major conclusions, among other things identifed .
7. You should always bring a few extra hard copies of your abstract to give to sponsored award judges and others.

Q:  Thank you for the Science and Math Fair URL.  I printed out the requirements for the Final Abstract and showed them to my student.  He does not see how he can produce a 200-300 word abstract without using any mathematical symbols.  He says he would need at least parentheses and addition signs.  I suspect he would find a need for other symbols as well since his research and findings are in theoretical math.  Ideally, he would want to write his abstract in LaTeX.  He would really appreciate any advice.

A:  Here's the skinny, our web form mangles even basic symbols.

We can copy and paste your abstract into the document, post process.  Please fill out the final abstract web form when it becomes available. In the field for the abstract text type a reminder to us that your abstract will be inserted later. email us a copy of your abstract in a format we  can copy and paste into a Word document.

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