Northeast Indiana Regional
Science and Engineering Fair

Official Abstract for POST-review

All grade 9-12 projects submitted for Post-Review require the Official Abstract for the Northeast Indiana Regional Science & Engineering Fair along with their ISEF paperwork. Click here for a copy of an ISEF Official Abstract and Instructions

TIP: (Keep an electronic copy of your text in a WORD document so if you advance to the State Fair, it is available to cut and paste into the State Fair online registration form)

All grades 6-8 projects submitted for Post-Review require an abstract done in a WORD (or similar) document. Students that advance to the State Fair will need to be able to copy and paste their abstract from the WORD document to the State online registration form.

General instructions for the Abstract

After finishing research and experimentation, you are required to write a (maximum) 250 word, one-page abstract and should include the following:

a) purpose of the experiment
b) procedure
c) data
d) conclusions
It may also include any possible research applications. Only minimal reference to previous work may be included.

An abstract must NOT include the following:

a) acknowledgments (including naming the research institution and/
or mentor with which you were working), or self-promotions and external endorsements
b) work or procedures done by someone other than the student