<p>how do you find out you’re disqualified? do they notify you at all?</p>
<p>ahhh last day for submissions!! my project will arrive today 
I’m so excited to hear back on Oct 18th!!</p>
<p>Anyone on here do a team project, or are all you guys just individuals? Do you know what the breakup for the 1500 entries are, like how many are individuals and how many are teams?</p>
<p>Team project, not sure what the entries look like.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about the team breakdown but I’m assuming it’s ~60% individual and 40% team? They need to be similar percentages because I’m pretty sure they try to keep the number of semifinalists/regional finalists equal in both categories (or around 50/50 anyway)</p>
<p>There are ~300 semifinalists (~100 individual, ~100 team) and 60 finalists (5 individual and 5 team per region), so it has to be close to equal :)</p>
<p>Well while the wait is on, I wish all of us here on CC the best of luck! I’m an individual going with cancer in nj! How cliche :)</p>
<p>Guys it’s 300 total projects for semifinalists, not 300 total people. I copied and pasted the semifinalist list from the 2012 competition into a separate word document, and then removed the state names. I numbered the list, and there were well over 300 people (excluding the regional finalists, they are on a separate list), which clearly means it’s 300 projects for semis. Also, I believe they don’t pick 360 total projects. The semifinalist list is actually around 240 projects, with the remaining 60 out of the 300 projects being on the regional finalist list.</p>
<p>So if you’re an RF you should be on both lists?</p>
<p>Hey, has anyone called up Siemens to check if their project has arrived?</p>
<p>I just did^
Yay! It arrived :)</p>
<p>@FirstUsajmo I’ve tried but keep getting a voicemail. Do you have the number to call?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it’s (609) 771-7878 (from memory, so I may be wrong). I think it was posted somewhere earlier on this thread, also.</p>
<p>Edit: Yep, that’s the right number</p>
<p>^that was the number I saw on the screen, but it was a different # in my phone, since I had to use an extension (3 I think it was, but the automated thing will tell you)</p>
<p>in the interest of keeping this thread alive until the results come back (only 13 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes and 0 seconds away!!! ahhhh), what other stem-related fairs/contests/competitions are you guys doing? :)</p>
<p>@fieldsofpoppy</p>
<p>Siemens doesn’t explain it well I guess. The way it works is 300 semifinalists are first picked (150 individual and 150 team), and then of those 300 a total of 60 regional finalists are picked (30 individual and 30 team). The thing is, unlike Intel STS, Siemens releases the regional finalists and semifinalists at the same time. The semifinalist list really only contains 240 projects, while the regional finalist list contains 60 projects. To answer your question, the regional finalists aren’t on the semifinalist list; they are only on the regional finalist list.</p>
<p>cricketfan2014, thanks for the clarification. Approximately, how many projects Siemens receive last year?</p>
<p>They should name it something else cause it sounds weird.</p>
<p>Just a random thought. How would international applicants work into the regional system?</p>
<p>Like would Siemens put you into the region you are closest to? Like it wouldn’t be so great to put all submissions from Asia into the west coast region (There’s already heck loads of competition in CA alone)?</p>
<p>I’m sure there are expats out there doing some great research.</p>
<p>What you all think?</p>
<p>If Siemens did open the competition up to international applicants, 1) they would need WAY more time than ~2 weeks to figure out the finalists/regional finalists because they would receive many more than ~1500 projects and 2) they would need to completely alter the regional system, especially since it currently is involved with their partner universities. Would they partner with international universities? Would int’l students come to the US to compete? What about foreign languages? It wouldn’t be fair to put all of the int’l students in the regions near the east/west coasts and leave the more central regions untouched. They would have to create new regions and it would get crazy and confusing.</p>