<p>Hi, I'm a high school junior interested in entering a science competition (Intel, Siemens, Young Epidemiology Scholars) next year as a senior. I have a couple questions:</p>
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<li><p>Can you enter ONE research project into MULTIPLE competitions?
Of course you would have to make sure it fit the requirements and tweak it, but would it be okay if the bulk of the research is the same topic? Or would that be against the rules?</p></li>
<li><p>For Siemens and Intel, does the research HAVE to be done in a lab?
That's what it seems like to me right now, since all of the abstracts I've read are very technical, etc. But I was wondering if I could use my more low-key, primary/secondary source, more sociology-based research from my YES project for Siemens and Intel.</p></li>
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<p>Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, I'm relatively new to this stuff. Thank you!</p>
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<p>Idk about the specific rules for those competitions, but as I understand it this type of thing is typically frowned upon in academic circles.</p>
<p>I don’t know about science fairs, but I don’t think you’re allowed to send a paper to more than one journal, unless it’s rejected from a journal, and then you can try another. But I’m not sure.</p>
<p>(1) Yes you can, I don’t see why not.</p>
<p>(2) I remember a couple of years ago a girl won at ISEF for making a spectrographer in her basement: [Women</a> in Science: Mary Masterman: Intel Science Talent Search Winner](<a href=“http://sciencewomen.blogspot.com/2007/03/mary-masterman-intel-science-talent.html]Women”>Women in Science: Mary Masterman: Intel Science Talent Search Winner)</p>
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<li>Yes it is done all the time.</li>
<li>Not necessarily, but they tend to do better. Try if you so desire though.</li>
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<p>I sent my paper to multiple competitions, as did tons of people I know. It’s fine. In fact, the Intel STS app specifically asks you what other competitions you submitted your research to.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for all the answers! Very informative.</p>
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<li><p>Yes, you can, and the Siemens semifinalists announcements come out before the Intel deadline, so you can gauge how well you’ll do. Actually, that’s not true. Siemens and Intel are looking for different things. I submitted my research to both. You can even submit the same project in different years if you’ve made SIGNIFICANT changes. I would advise against this though, unless you’ve radically changed it because if you didn’t go on one year, it’s unlikely that you’ll go on in another year, and it’s not worth the hours of paperwork. But if you’ve changed it, then go ahead.</p></li>
<li><p>No, you don’t need to, but that’s normally how people win.</p></li>
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<p>1) I believe you can
2) Definitely. A few years ago one of the top 10 from Intel did an economics project that was just analysis of donations that were recorded in existing tables.</p>
<p>1) Yes, my S entered his project into Siemens and Intel STS. Siemens doesn’t allow social science projects, whereas Intel allows them in certain fields. Check each website for specifics.
2) He did not do his work in a lab. Because it was a theoretical-type project, he spent most of the summer under a tree with the dog and his laptop. He met with his mentor once a week to discuss his progress. For some kinds of math and computer science projects, a lab is not appropriate. He did alright. :)</p>
<p>Well that’s definitely good to know (that you can submit to more than one). I do not have a lab problem anymore because I am applying to several summer research internships. So that’s good. (CountingDown and others, I couldn’t do a more theoretical one because I’m not really into math/economics/computers/etc.).</p>