Regeneron Science Talent Search

Public Exhibition of Projects! Meet inspiring teen scientists LIVE at the Virtual Public Exhibition of Projects on Sunday, March 13 from 2-4 p.m. Eastern.

The Help Desk is available on Practice Day, Wednesday, March 9, from 2 to 6 PM and on Synopsys Championship day, Thursday, March 10, from 12 to 6 PM.

Students and judges will receive email from RocketJudge with links to Judging interviews and their individualized web pages. (For students, it’s the Project Page.) Call the Help Desk March 9th between 2-6PM < 833-728-7332 > if you can’t find the email (check your spam folder) or your web page link. (Note to students – your teacher/sponsor should also have received the message.) Please note: We cannot accommodate special requests or reschedule your interviews.

Students should do a final check of their Judging Folders before the Category judges start to review them. (1) Don’t use subfolders.(2) Upload an optional YouTube video link; include the link in your presentation and/or as a separate PDF document with your project code, title and name(s). (3) Use PDF documents and eliminate duplicates in other formats. (4) The Project Abstract should include your project code, title, name(s) and the link (those don’t count against the 250-word limit). (5) File names should include the project code. (6) Form 1C for RRI projects and Form 7 for Continuation projects should be included, but no other forms should be copied over from your Application Folder.

Students should watch their Project Page for new instructions and links to Rocket Judge for Practice Day on March 9 and Judging Day on March 10. Use the same equipment that you will use during your judging interview and be sure you know how to share your screen. Your teacher will also have a copy of your schedule.

Starting 2/28, students will need to request Editor access to their Judging Folders in order to upload new or revised project materials. Contact the Fair Administrators to request access; please include your project code. Then you may use the links on your Project Page and follow the newly posted Step 7 through Step 10 for instructions.  Links were sent to the address you used when you registered.

The process to send out Judging Folder links is expected to be complete by late on Saturday, Feb 26. Students will follow the links and the new steps on their Project Pages. If you don’t receive a link, check your Spam folder and all your email addresses; then contact the Fair Administrators. Links will be sent to the address you used when you registered.

The Championship Judging Team welcomes volunteer helpers at the virtual Synopsys Championship.  

• Help Desk assistants will join the In-Person team in South San Jose and forward phone calls to the experts on March 9 from 1 to 6 pm and March 10 from 12 to 6 pm.
• Interview Room monitors may work from their home computers on March 10 from 12 to 6 pm.

To get more details, please send email to Volunteer Opportunities via the SCVSEFA contact page.

Please request changes to your project title, field of study, etc. – or to withdraw from science fair – by midnight on Wednesday, February 23. Then the database will close, meta-information will be locked, and judging assignments will begin. 

• Check Project Status with the button on the home page. After February 23 any Incomplete project will become Not Qualified.
• Is the Field of Study accurate? and the category (RRI or non-RRI)? 
• Is the title correct, are student names spelled correctly, and is it listed by the correct teacher/sponsor name?
• If the project is Incomplete, upload whatever information has been requested to your Forms Folder. Inform the reviewer (or whoever made the request) by email with your project code in the subject line.
• If you need to withdraw or make changes, send email to Fair Manager, using the Fair Administration link on the SCVSEFA contact page.

If your project is Accepted, on February 25 you may start to upload project materials to your Judging Folder, following new instructions on your Project Page.

With >200 “received, waiting for review,” projects the SRC is finding common errors that slow down the process.

What you can do to speed up your review:

1. Check dates on your forms. Form 1A should list when you actually started – or plan to start – your experiment or data collection. The signature dates on other forms (1, 1B, Hold Harmless, etc.) should be prior to this date. As needed, fix and replace with a new copy in your forms folder. Only exception – 1C is filled out after experimentation.
2. Check your Bibliography. High school projects need at least 5 and middle school a minimum of 3 references relevant to the project. For a web site, specify the access date.
3. Check for Measurements.  Reviewers want to see what you plan to measure. Engineering projects in particular need quantitative engineering design criteria like speed, accuracy, distance are.