Official 2008 INTEL STS Thread

<p>How many of you have submitted or are planning to submit. Fewer than 2 weeks left!!!</p>

<p>I am. Planning to, that is.</p>

<p>1 quick ?
It says u can send up to 3 letters of recommendation.
Will sending only 2 hurt you? I will have 2 very strong ones and 1 ok one, and would rather just send the very strong ones.</p>

<p>2 is fine. I mean, if they repeat the same stuff about you (one of the 2 and the third rec) then there's no point in sending that third one out. Hence, I got a school teacher and my SRTP advisor for my recs to get two different aspects of my scientific mind.</p>

<p>yeah im doing the same (school teacher and research adviser).
Another question: by the 100 word summary, what do they mena by "in lay men's terms." How much do you have to dumb it down? F/e, could I talk about x-ray noise, or do I have to talk in general terms about image degradation in x-ray devices.</p>

<p>hmm is one rec enough?</p>

<p>I'm only sending one rec. My teachers don't know jack about my research, anyway. ^_^</p>

<p>How does one enter Intel?</p>

<p>u submit the form + paper etc.
Materials are on Sciserv.org
if you didnt start yet, itll be difficult to make the November 14th deadline (8PM!).
Anyone know about the 100 word summary?</p>

<p>What about the summary? It's self-explainable--you basically "dumb down" your project for the media. If you don't know how far down you have to go, ask yourself this: if you gave the summary to your parents or someone at the mall, would they be able to understand it? I understand that some projects are extremely complex, but if you're working on a project that's at such a high level, you're probably smart enough to dumb it down to a great extent. </p>

<p>Anyway, from how they put it, I doubt that the summary will be an integral part of their choosing of the semifinalists.</p>

<p>Mathwiz90, do you think we can ask Dr. R for a teacher/advisor rec? Or is that purely for school teachers...?</p>

<p>NVM I'm getting recs from my bio and chem teachers. GL to all.</p>

<p>Dam - Dr R counts as 1 recommendation (you can ask up to 2 other teachers).
Im only getting from my calc/physics teacher (he worked in a similar field so he knows my research).
Am I allowed to use any scientific nomenclature for the summary? How dumbed down does it have to be?</p>

<p>can a 2nd grader understand your research? If you know your research well enough it should not be difficult to "dumb it down"</p>

<p>yeah I did dumb it down in 100 words, but it leaves out explanation that I feel is necessary. I guess Ill send that in, but it is cheating the reader, IMO</p>

<p>any1 done wit the paper yet?
6 days</p>

<p>finally!
so i guess there's nothing to do, just have to wait until jan (15?)</p>

<p>care to tell us what your project was on?</p>

<p>how long are all your papers?</p>

<p>my siemens paper was 20, and my intel is 20 now (and will almost definately be 20)</p>