<p>I think it’s some participation award. Idk why they matter.</p>
<p>does anyone know where the intel isef thread is?</p>
<p>@pieguy321 don’t think the 2014 edition exists yet but I could be wrong</p>
<p>has anyone received any updates from intel? I checked the website but I think the application portal disappeared… can’t wait for news :)</p>
<p>So this thread has so completely disappeared from recent postings on CC that I felt the need to resurrect it so we can find it in the future without having to search for it :)</p>
<p>On another note, 20 days!!</p>
<p>Intel STS 2014 Entrant Badges are now available…</p>
<p>Yes they are!! So exciting!</p>
<p>How can you tell? Did you get an email?</p>
<p>just check the website</p>
<p>God it’s so confusing… I had to create a new account because for whatever reason I had no Society for Science & the Public account… I submitted the application but for whatever reason I can’t even find myself on the list. I was the person having problems earlier, too. Did you all have to do some sort of sync in between your STS application and your society for science & the public account? I just want to see my name to make sure they have everything…</p>
<p>I promise I’m not always this difficult with technology. My brain just simply does not seem to agree with the society for science</p>
<p>wait… my name isn’t on the badges site… WHAT IS THIS AHHHHH</p>
<p>Does anybody have any advice about the application itself? Not the project part.</p>
<p>I was just looking at the sample application posted: <a href=“http://member.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=399[/url]”>http://member.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=399</a></p>
<p>How much of the judging process is based on the application versus the project? The amount of space allocated for research background sounds quite intimidating. It just does not sound like a competition suited for someone who is just completed a research project just for intel but rather someone who has devoted their life to research for several years already, probably since they just came out of the womb. I would be leaving lots of the lines blank, and I feel like that cannot be good.</p>
<p>I left lots of lines blank because the project I submitted to Intel was my first ever research experience. We’ll see on jan 8th if all those empty lines harmed me!</p>
<p>Keep in mind, though, that in most cases the people who have been in the lab since middle school have parents who were researchers that opened lots of doors for them. Intel also has a space where you have to acknowledge all the help that any family members gave you in your project. I don’t honestly think they are going to be super impressed by how early you got started researching if it looks like something that mommy and daddy really pushed. </p>
<p>Yeah I still have no idea how to get my name to show up on the entrant badge list. Do you have to have a subscription or something? They still haven’t answered my email…</p>
<p>Yeah, even though I’ve done science fairs since 6th grade, I’ve only submitted real papers last year and this year. It’s a fair amount of work. I haven’t had lab experience though, because my interests lie in the computational fields, so I’ve mostly relied on email (no need to use lab equipment). So as a result, many of my fields were also left blank. </p>
<p>I didn’t hear anything about the entrant badge. </p>
<p>I feel that for the preliminary judging they would do stuff to save them time, rather than go through every single project and read the project in the whole. I’m not sure, they had close to 2 months, so it could be possible if they had many, many volunteers… I mean Siemens does it in less than a month. Well, actually the application for that opens in like March or something, whereas Intel opens in August… So I really don’t know.</p>
<p>@ quidditchcat and anyone else who is having issues with the badging…
you need to go to this website: [SSP</a> & Intel Digital Badging Program | Society For Science Badging System](<a href=“http://badging.societyforscience.org%5DSSP”>http://badging.societyforscience.org) and log in to your ssp account (remember, you had to create one when you submitted your intel app?). just follow the directions and you will automatically receive an entrants badge :D</p>
<p>@rowerruns honestly I don’t think anyone competing this year can really answer that until the semis are released on 1/08… check back then?</p>
<p>The ssp system didn’t recognize any account that I made with my original email (or the email that I used to submit my application, at least). So I made an ssp account with my main email and tried to see if it would somehow connect with my application, to no avail. I don’t care too much about the badge but I’m just worried that my application was somehow lost. I do have a submission email, though.</p>
<p>Dear NAME,</p>
<p>Submission Complete!</p>
<p>If you have submitted your application by Friday morning, November 15 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time, your application is eligible for Intel STS 2014. Submissions after this date and time are not eligible. </p>
<p>Take a moment to complete our post-submission survey.</p>
<p>Semifinalists will be announced on January 8, 2014 and Finalists will be announced January 22, 2014. Please visit the Society for Science & the Public webpage for these announcements.</p>
<p>Thank you. </p>
<p>Society for Science & the Public
1719 N St. NW
Washington, DC 20036</p>
<p>Hopefully as long as you have that email you are peechy keen.</p>
<p>they did say it could take up to 2 days to receive your badge… maybe email them if you don’t receive it by 1/01 or something?</p>
<p>Also… does anyone know if the other badges are released when the semis are released on 1/08 or if they come out before?</p>
<p>hope they come out before!! i can’t wait!</p>