Rules of the Fair

🔥 Safety & Ethics

  • Mandatory committee approval for projects involving animals or humans.
  • Read through the Safety and Ethics resources to make sure your project follows Youth Science Canada’s safety and ethics guidelines.
  • If in doubt, reach out to Chris at [email protected].

🐾 Research involving animals or humans

  • Projects involving animals or humans require LRSF Safety and Ethics Committee pre-approval.
  • Human-participant projects must include signed Informed Consent Forms in the logbook.
  • Non-conforming projects will be disqualified.

🔍 Project Types

  • Your project must either be a Discovery Project or an Innovation Project.
    • Discovery: Answering scientific questions.
    • Innovation: Solving problems or improving existing solutions.
  • Project types are explained further here.

📒 Project Documentation

  • Maintain a detailed logbook (dates, observations, results).
  • Submission must include an abstract summarizing the project.

💡 Presentation

  • Projects require a visual display (board, models, demos).
  • Electronic displays (like slides) are optional.

📸 Media Consent

  • Participation implies consent to use select details (name, age, grade, school) and media (photos, recordings) for LRSF purposes.

🚫 Exhibit Restrictions

  • One exhibit per participant per year.
  • No repetition of past projects; only new or expanded research is evaluated.

✒ Project Originality

  • Projects must be original; plagiarism results in disqualification.
  • Previously winning projects are ineligible.