ISEF Rules Directory

The ISEF web site is a sprawling place, where it can be tough to find the page or form you're looking for. To help you out, here are links to some important or key pages, with a brief explanation of why you might want to visit them.

• ISEF Rules and Guidelines. This page links to all of ISEF’s rules and guidance.

  • 2022 Rule Clarifications & Changes. This document describes the latest ISEF rules changes.

• Overview of Forms and Dates. This lists and describes all of the ISEF forms; it gives tips on how and when to fill them out. 

• Operational Guidelines for Scientific Review Committees (SRC) and Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Six pages of detailed instructions on how to set up and run an SRC and/or IRB at your school.

• Intel ISEF Rules Wizard guides you in choosing which forms you need to fill out and submit for your exhibit.

• Common Scientific Research Committee (SRC) Problems means just that: it outlines common pitfalls with projects and paperwork so you can avoid them. Here are its subsections:

  • Top Five Intel ISEF Paperwork Problems

  • Top Five Intel ISEF SRC Problems (Guaranteed to require an interview)

  • Top 10 SRC Problems from Regional SRC Reports

• Intel ISEF categories and subcategories. ISEF has 21 research categories; EISEF combines these into just two. The ISEF category descriptions contain extra detail that may help you decide what EISEF category your project belongs in.