LOCAL FAIR COORDINATOR Guidelines

 

Local Fair Coordinators: please read through the following information about registering your school for the NIRSEF and getting student projects ready. If you have any questions, please contact the NIRSEF Executive Director, Karen Morris, at:
(574) 631-6945 or morris.3@nd.edu.

  1. To Register your School for the Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair All schools must register at the SEFI site. Please click on the link below to start. PLEASE NOTE: returning Local Fair Coordinator will be “re-activating” their accounts and new Local Fair Coordinators will be starting new accounts at the SEFI site. All coordinators will be confirmed by the NIRSEF Executive Director.

    http://www.sefi.org/TeacherRegistrationInstructions.pdf

  2. Number of Project spaces per each school at the NIRSEF (individual OR team)
      a. Schools with Grades K-4 or 7-8: 4 project spaces
      b. Schools with Grades 5-8 or 6-8: 6 project spaces
      c. Schools with Grades K-8: 8 project spaces
      d. All high schools: 10 project spaces

    YOU MAY REQUEST additional project spaces! Please connect the NIRSEF Executive Director for your request!

  3. You may set up your student accoutns and enter student project information NOW!. All project information must be submitted at the SEFI site NO LATER THAN 5:00 pm FRIDAY, Feb. 17th. NO projects will be allowed to enter the NIRSEF after this date!

  4. ALL projects dealing with the following materials MUST sumbit review paperword to the NIRSEF Safety Review Comittee (SRC) BEFORE EXPERIMENTATION begins.

    • Microorganisms (e.g.: bacteria)
    • rDNA
    • Tissues or bodily fluids
    		 MUST be done in a BSL-2 Lab under supervision

    Projects dealing with Human Participants MUST submit review paperwork to an Institutional Review Board (IRB) BEFORE EXPERIMENTATION begins. A school may set up an IRB according to the guidelines HERE and HERE.

  5. All projects must complete the SRC/IRB paperwork: Form 1, Form 1A and Form 1B. Projects requiring prior approval must complete additional forms and submit to the NIRSEF SRC or school IRB (as defined above). All forms can be competed at the SEFI site after student account information has been set up OR all forms can be downloaded from the Society for Science and the Public site
    http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/document