• Middle School Competition Division Project Registration

    Only students in grades 6-8 who would like to compete are eligible to complete this form.

  • IMPORTANT! BEFORE YOU START:

    1. Please review the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair Rules & Guidelines here.*

    2. This registration needs to be completed PRIOR to experimentation.

    3. Please read through the Student Checklist and complete the Registration Roadmap here BEFORE you begin.

    4. All additional forms need to be downloaded and uploaded - the links to the forms are included in the Student Checklist or Registration Roadmap. The final signature form is actually embedded within the application itself. If you are having trouble with either downloading or uploading, please contact us at sacstemfair@sacstemfair.org

    5. When your Regional STEM Fair ID number is identified through this registration, please be sure to SAVE IT and write it down somewhere on your project (i.e. on any visual you may present)!

    6. Please be sure that you are spelling your name and information CORRECTLY! We use this information to produce any certificates or awards you might win! We are not liable for your misspellings.

    7. If you are part of a TEAM PROJECT - only ONE team member may fill out this form! Remember, teams may be made up of a maximum of three students. Duplicate registrations could lead to your disqualification from competition. There are questions within this form that will allow you to put your team member's information in. YOU WILL NEED: your team members' name(s), their email address(es), their school(s) and grade(s), their parent's name(s) and email address(es), and their home address(es).

    8. You may NOT participate in a project with teammates who belong in a different division - i.e. middle school projects must only include students in grade(s) 6, 7, and/ or 8.

    9. If you are planning to enter into the Showcase Division, this is the WRONG form. Please exit this form and use the "Showcase Division" registration!

    10. If you are planning to enter the competition division, but you are NOT in grades 6-8, this is the WRONG form. Please exit this form and use "High School Competition Division Project Registration."

    11. If you are NOT in the following counties: Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba, you are NOT eligible to continue on to the California State Science Fair from the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair. Projects from outside counties are accepted only IF an Intel ISEF-affiliated fair is not available for them to participate in their area. View the county list here: https://sacstemfair.org/stem-fair/*

    * The NorCal STEM Education Foundation has not yet affiliated with ISEF or with the ThermoFisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) for the 2025 Fair, and may or not be able to for this year. Information about affiliation with ISEF/JIC will be released as soon as possible.   

  • Student Information


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  • Project Information

  • You've Selected TEAM PROJECT. Please provide the following information:

    List your Team Member's Information below. Do not fill out your information over again. The maximum team size allowed is two (2) members additional members.


  • Research Outline

    (This counts as your "research paper")
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  • You've selected "Yes" for Continuation Project. Please provide the following:

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  • You've selected "Research Institution". Please complete the following:

    This form must be completed AFTER experimentation by the adult supervising the student research conducted in a regulated research institution, industrial setting or any work site other than home, school or field. This form MUST be displayed with your project; responses must be on the form.

  • Please print out the form by clicking the link below. Once complete, please return to sacstemfair@sacstemfair.org.

    Regulated Research Form 1C

  • You've selected "Other". Please complete the following:

  • The project involves: (Check all that apply)

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    You've selected FALSE. Please fill out the appropriate forms or upload them to complete your registration.

    If you do not fill out the appropriate forms, your registration will be considered incomplete!

  • Form 4: Humans

    Required for all research involving human participants not at a Regulated Research Institution. If at a Regulated Research Institution, use institutional approval forms for documentation of prior review and approval (IRB Approval Required before experimentation).
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  • Sample of your Human Informed Consent Form

  • Instructions to the Student Researcher(s): An informed consent/assent/permission form should be developed in  consultation with the Adult Sponsor, Designated Supervisor or Qualified Scientist.

    This form is used to provide information to the research participant (or parent/guardian) and to document written  informed consent, minor assent, and/or parental permission.

    When written documentation is required, the researcher keeps the original, signed form.

    If the form is serving to document parental permission, a copy of any survey or questionnaire must be attached

    Please fill out the questions below as if it was your Human Informed Consent form.

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  • Form 5A: Vertebrate Animals

    Required for all research involving vertebrate animals that is conducted in a school/home/field research site.(SRC approval required before experimentation.)
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  • Vertebrate Animals Form 5B

    Required for all research involving vertebrate animals that is conducted in at a Regulated Research Institution. (IACUC approval required before experimentation.)
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  • Form 6A: Potentially Hazardous Biological Agents

    Required for research involving microorganisms, rDNA, fresh/frozen tissue (including primary cell lines, human and other primate established cell lines and tissue cultures), blood, blood products and body fluids. SRC/IACUC/IBC approval required before experimentation.
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  • To be completed by the Qualified Scientist or Designated Supervisor:

     

  • Form 6B: Human and Vertebrate Animal Tissue

    Required for research involving fresh/frozen tissue (including primary cell lines, human and other primate established cell lines and tissue cultures), blood, blood products and body fluids. If the research involves living organisms please ensure that the proper human or animal forms are completed. All projects using any tissue listed above must also complete Form 6A.
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  • To be completed by the Qualified Scientist or Designated Supervisor:

    I verify that the student will work solely with organs, tissues, cultures or cells that will be supplied to him/her by myself or qualified personnel from the laboratory; and that if vertebrate animals were euthanized they were euthanized for a purpose other than the student’s research.  AND/ORI certify that the blood, blood products, tissues or body fluids in this project will be handled in accordance with the standards and guidance set forth in Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29CFR, Subpart Z, 1910.1030 - Blood Borne Pathogens.

  • Form 3: Risk Assessment

    Recommended for all projects. Must be completed before experimentation. May be required for projects involving Human Participants, Hazardous Chemicals, Materials or Devices or Potentially Hazardous Biological Agents.
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  • Form 2: Qualified Scientist

    Must be completed and signed before the start of student experimentation. A Qualified Scientist is Qualified by either: having earned a doctoral/professional degree in a scientific discipline related to the student’s area of research AND/OR being an individual with extensive experience and expertise in the student’s area of research. They must be thoroughly familiar with the following regulations that govern the student’s area of research including all local, state, Federal and if applicable, non-U.S. national regulations and laws. They can also serve as the Adult Sponsor, if that person meets both sets of qualifications They may live elsewhere and not be local to the student, in which case, a Direct Supervisor must be appointed and trained to serve as the onsite supervision as necessary for the specific student project.
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  • IMPORTANT: YOU ONLY NEED TO FILL OUT THIS FORM IF YOU USE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR EXPERIMENTATION:

    Human Participants, Vertebrate Animals, Tissues, Potentially Hazardous Biological Agents, Potentially Hazardous Devices, Activities, etc. 

    IF YOU DO NOT USE THE ABOVE, PLEASE CONTINUE TO THE NEXT PAGE THE "SIGNATURE PAGE".

    *NOTE: Science teachers qualify as a Qualified Scientist for MOST Middle School projects. 

    THANK YOU!

     

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  • You have answered that you have NOT read the rules relevant to this project. Please do so to ensure that the student researcher will not be disqualified.

    Read the rules here: LINK


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  • Required Signatures

    Please download and upload the required signatures page, or complete the form below by electronically signing.
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  • Rules of Conduct and Release

    Please read carefully, obtain proper signatures and return. ALL participating students are required to return this form to participate in the 2025 Sacramento Regional STEM Fair.

    Rules of Conduct

    1. Scientific fraud and misconduct are not condoned at any level of research or competition. Such practices include plagiarism, forgery, use or presentation of other researcher’s work as one’s own, the use of AI Software presented as one's own, and fabrication of data. Fraudulent projects will fail to qualify for the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair.
    2. The use of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages and/or drugs is prohibited.
    3. Respect and maintenance of event property is required at all times.
    4. Appropriate attire is expected.  
    5. Attendance is mandatory during student interviews and at any public exhibition of projects.*

    I have read and understand the above rules and agree to adhere to them to the best of my ability.  I understand that a consequence of failure to meet these standards may be that I will be sent home immediately at my parents’ expense.  

    *Contact the Foundation should you have any questions.

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  • *Liability for Exhibits

    Every effort will be made to protect exhibits from loss or damage. However, since the exhibition of projects at the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair (Event) is open to the public, the Sacramento Regional Science & Engineering Fair Foundation (dba NorCal STEM Education Foundation) cannot and will not accept any liability or responsibility of any nature for any theft, loss or damage to any exhibit or any other property of any Exhibitor. "Exhibitor" is defined as student participant, "exhibit" is defined as student project display. Accordingly, it is recommended that each Exhibitor take all prudent precautions to prevent any theft, loss or damage to his/her exhibit and/or other property. Each Exhibitor should secure and guard his/her exhibit and/or other property at all times during the Event, and remove all valuable components, especially those that are easily portable, when the exhibit and/or other property is left unguarded by the Exhibitor.

    I have read the above paragraph, and understand and accept the Sacramento Regional Science & Engineering Fair Foundation cannot and will not accept any liability or responsibility for theft or damage to my exhibit.

    *This section is only valid should there be in-person presentations. 

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  • Publicity

    Organizations and businesses sponsoring awards at the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair ("Event") may wish to publicize their involvement in the Event, which may include reports of achievements at the competition by using photographs or information about you.  We request your availability and cooperation when contacted, interviewed, photographed and videotaped by the media before, during and after the Event.  In addition, limited travel to local media outlets within the Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering Fair Foundation (dba NorCal STEM Education Foundation) region may be necessary to accommodate interview requests.  Advance notice will be given.  Your cooperation is requested for the full duration of the fair cycle beginning with your local school or district fair through the Event and after the Regeneron ISEF/Thermo Fischer Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) (approximately 10 months)*.

     

    I also acknowledge that by participating in the Event, I consent to my name and image being used in promotional materials for future Events. 

    Appropriate information about me may be used for publicity purposes.  This includes photographs submitted by me as well as any photographs, videos or likenesses that may be used by the Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering Fair Foundation or the sponsors of awards for the purposes of illustration, advertising or publication in any manner.  I also consent to the use of my name in connection therewith and agree that I will cooperate with regard to all publicity in connection therewith for the duration of the Fair cycle.

    * The NorCal STEM Education Foundation has not yet affiliated with ISEF or with the ThermoFisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) for the 2025 Fair, and may or not be able to for this year. Information about affiliation with ISEF/JIC will be released as soon as possible.

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  • Participating Counties

    Only students competing from the following counties as designated by CSEF (https://csef.usc.edu/Fairs/350.html) are  eligible to continue on to the California State Science Fair from the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair. Projects from outside counties are accepted only IF a Regeneron ISEF-affiliated fair is not available for them to participate in their area*. View the county list here: http://sacstemfair.org/stem-fair.html

    By registering to compete in the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair while residing in an outside county, you acknowledge that you will not be able to move on to the California State Science Fair. You also agree not to compete in any other ISEF-affiliated fairs; competing in another ISEF-affiliated Fair during the same Fair year will immediately disqualify you from any awards at the Sacramento Regional STEM Fair.*

    * The NorCal STEM Education Foundation has not yet affiliated with ISEF or with the ThermoFisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) for the 2025 Fair, and may or not be able to for this year. Information about affiliation with ISEF/JIC will be released as soon as possible. The portion of this clause regarding disqualification for competing in another ISEF-affiliated Fair will only be effective if the 2025 Sacramento Regional STEM Fair is affiliated with ISEF for 2025.

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