<p>Siemens Westinghouse 2005 semifinalist
Siemens Westinghouse 2004 regional finalist
and I did a project at RSI.</p>
<p>Now, these are all three different projects. The fields are Comp. Sci., Biology, and Bioinformatics, respectively.</p>
<p>What I'm afraid of is that they'll think I did the same project for both SWC competitions, or that I submitted the RSI project for SWC 2005, which I did not. I submitted abstracts of all three separately, and on the cover letter, it says which project went to which competition, but could this be a problem?</p>
<p>One thing I really like about my application is that I have a lot of diversity in research, so this is important.</p>
<p>And a little unrelated, should I also send a research paper, or are the abstracts enough?</p>
<p>You can always mention the specifics in the final optional essay. As for attaching a research paper, I would have to say don't. An abstract may even not help too much. As a prefrosh, chances are you're research is not world-breaking (then agian, you never know...). I think it would be far more beneficial for you to talk about what you learned about the nature of research and what enlightenment you've gained from it. Focus on the experience, not the experiments, that is.</p>
<p>I talked about one of the projects in the optional essay (the one that would be most exciting to nonscientists). My additional information essay is the one that focuses on the experience though, and talks about what it FEELS like to research.</p>
<p>Will they know that I did three projects though? Dangit I should have specified on the extended awards list...</p>
<p>For your last question, I think it would be sufficient to send just the abstracts -- I know when I'm reading papers in journals that aren't in my specialty, I just read the abstracts.</p>