Fair personnel will inspect all exhibits for compliance with these rules and any non-conforming items will be removed from the display. If a project uses prohibited display materials in its execution, the student should consider photographs, drawings, or other methods for describing the project in the display.
Any project display that does not meet these guidelines will be disqualified from competition or display.
UNACCEPTABLE FOR DISPLAY
- Living creatures, including plants, microbes, etc.
- Dried plant material
- Taxidermy specimens or parts
- Preserved vertebrate or invertebrate animals (including embryos)
- Human or animal food
- Human or animal parts (except that teeth, hair, nails, bones, histological sections, and wet-mount tissue slides are allowed)
- Soil or waste samples
- Laboratory chemicals including Water
- poisons, drugs, controlled substances, hazardous substances or devices
- Dry ice or other sublimating solids
- Sharp items
- Organisms, fungi, cultured growths, spoiled food, or mold
- Flames or highly flammable materials
- empty tanks that previously contained combustible liquids or gases
- Batteries with open top cells
- awards, medals, business cards, flags, etc.
- personal photographs, accomplishments, acknowledgements, addresses, phone, fax, or email addresses are NOT PERMITTED
- photographs or other visual presentations depicting vertebrate animals in other-than-normal conditions are NOT PERMITTED
ACCEPTABLE FOR DISPLAY ONLY
- Projects with moving parts that have unprotected belts and pulleys
- Class III and IV lasers
- Any device requiring voltage over 125 volts
ACCEPTABLE FOR DISPLAY AND OPERATION (with restrictions)
- Class II lasers
- Large vacuum tubes must be properly shielded
- pressurized tanks containing non-combustible gases if properly secured
- any apparatus producing temperatures that will cause physical burns must be adequately insulated
- high-voltabe equipment must be shielded with a grounded metal box or cage
- high voltage wiring, switches and metal parts must have adequate insulation and overload safety factors
- electrical extension cords must have sufficient load carrying capacity and must be UL approved
- electrical connections in 125 volt circuits must be soldered or made with approved electical connectors
- bare wire and exposed knife switches may be used only with circuits of 12 volts or less
- handouts to judges will be limited to one copy of the official abstract.
All exhibits should be sturdily constructed and self-supporting. A place at a table is provided for all entrants unless floor space has been requested on the registration form. Electric cords are the responsibility of the exhibitor.
Size limits all project displays must fit within a rectangluar guide that is...
122 cm wide, 76 cm deep, and 274 cm high including any table.