Selecting the Subject
The student should select a subject, submit appropriate consent forms (see below) and begin working on the project as early as possible in the school year.

Categorizing the Project
Each project is reviewed by several qualified judges. So that the judging may be done fairly and accurately, it is important that a student properly categorize his or her project.

Astronomy:

The science regarding the celestial bodies and the observation and interpretation of the radiation received in the vicinity of the earth from the component parts of the universe. Optical astronomy, radio astronomy, astrophysics, astrometry, astrophotography.

Behavioral Science:

Concerned with the observable, tangible, and measurable data regarding behavior activities. Psychology, educational testing, animal behavior, learning, anthropology, archaeology.

Biochemistry:

Study of chemical substances occurring in living organisms and the reactions and the method for identifying these substances. Molecular biology, molecular genetics, enzymes, photosynthesis, blood chemistry, protein chemistry, food chemistry, hormones.

Biology:

The science of life, including the study of the development, structure, and behavior of living organisms. Botany, zoology, plant science, hydroponics, medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, nutrition, dermatology, veterinary medicine, microbiology, genetics, physiology, anatomy, invertebrate biology.

Chemistry:

A science that treats the composition of substances, their structure, behavior, their reactions, analyses and syntheses. Physical, organic (other than biochemistry), inorganic, materials, plastics, fuels, pesticides, metallurgy, soil chemistry.

Computers:

A study of computer construction, programming, languages, techniques and general operations.

Earth Science:

The study of weather, climate, local rock formations, mineral resources, soils, natural vegetation and animal life and the presence and absence of water bodies. Geology, geophysics, physical oceanography, meteorology, seismology, mineralogy, topography.

Electronics:

The study, control and application of the conduction of electricity through gases or a vacuum or through conducting or semi-conducting materials. Electronic phenomena, devices and systems.

Engineering:

Applied science concerned with utilizing products of earth, properties of matter, sources of power in nature, and physical forces for supplying human needs in the form of structures, machines, manufactured products, precision instruments, the means of lighting, heating, refrigeration, communication, transportation, sanitation, public safety, and other productive work. Civil, mechanical, aeronautical, chemical, electrical, photographic, sound, automotive, marine, materials, ocean, biomedical, geothermal and solar.

Mathematics:

That science which treats the exact relationships existing between quantities or magnitudes and operations, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from others known or supposed. Calculus, geometry, abstract algebra, number theory, statistics, complex analysis, probability, and other topics in pure and applied mathematics.

Physics:

A natural science covering matter, energy, and their mutual relations that do not involve change in composition. Solid state, optics, acoustics, particle, nuclear, atomic, plasma, thermodynamics, semi-conductors, magnetism, quantum mechanics, biophysics, mechanics.

This category includes the study of pollution sources (air, water and land); the effect of pollution on the environment and it's control; ecology.