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Here’s what you need to do:
- Read the For Students And Teachers page and follow its directions.
- Check the Forms Guide to find out what forms and certificates you need to fill out and when.
- Finish your experiment and complete your paperwork.
- Fill out the Student Entry Form? and submit it.
- Send us copies (by U.S. mail or email) of your Student Entry Signature Page and all your other paperwork. The deadline is February 26, 2018.
- Check the status of your entry on the Status of Student Entries page.
- Bring the originals of all paperwork with you to the Fair on March 16, 2019.
What about the statewide registration system?
You may have heard that a statewide science-fair registration system is in the works. It’s on the state fair (SSTFI) website; it expands the SSTFI registration system to add regional fairs like EISEF and WISEF (western Iowa). When finished, it should make life easier for you and your adult sponsor: you can attend both state and your regional fair, but you’ll register and upload paperwork only once, with both fairs getting the information. We’re looking forward to it.
The common state-wide registration system has made significant progress this year. Unfortunately, we’re not not ready to use the data it provides us, and we can’t become ready in time for this year’s Fair. So for EISEF, you’ll enter your project on our website and upload your paperwork to us — just like in years past. For the state fair, you’ll register on their website — just like in years past.
Help EISEF get ready for 2020
Click on the “Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair” box when you register for the state fair. This goes for you students and your adult sponsors, too.
You’ll still need to enter on EISEF’s website — we’ll ignore your state fair registration. But starting in April, after the state fair, we’ll look at your state registration data and the paperwork you submitted — and we’ll learn how to use it all, so we’ll be ready to the statewide common system next year.
- “What if I haven’t registered with the state fair yet?”
- When you do register with state, click on the EISEF box so we can learn from your data and paperwork. Then fill out the EISEF entry form and send us your paperwork.
- “What if I already entered with EISEF?”
- You’re all set with us; just send us your paperwork, like in years past. If you like, your adult sponsor and you can edit your state fair registrations to click the EISEF box.
- “What if I already registered with state but not EISEF?”
- Fill out the EISEF entry form and send us your paperwork. If you like, your adult sponsor and you can edit your state fair registrations to click the EISEF box.
- “What if I’m planning to attend EISEF but not the state fair?”
- Fill out the EISEF entry form and send us your paperwork. Don’t bother registering with state: it’s a lot of unnecessary work for you.