<p>No. On the intel paper you must include your name on every page, actually. Acknowledgements are welcome as well.</p>
<p>I think it being a work in progress has no bearing, as long as you have some novel technical developments or results already. </p>
<p>Come on, any truly good project can span years and many papers (plus a diss or two)</p>
<p>Speaking of which, what are the novel bits of the projects of various folks?</p>
<p>Mine is that its the basis of making a whole class of compilation techniques applicable to programming languages whose type systems are capable of expressing total program correctness (No error may occur when running a program).</p>
<p>Will what your mentor wrote on your comments page play a big part in the evaluation? Our project (about basically water sanitation) was completely independent so we had to get a teacher who knew only vaguely of our project to do our comments, and he only gave brief answers about everything, maybe two or three sentences each.</p>
<p>Hmm i'm not sure. What's their policy on unmentored projects? Did you call them?</p>
<p>My novel thing is that I make a novel algorithm to solve an optimization problem.</p>
<p>My novel thing(so everybody's done novel work eh ;) ) was that I've designed techniques to study the inter-neuron connections in a simulated brain on a macro-scale.... not sure if that is very novel, but I put it on the title because it looks really nice?</p>
<p>I think it would be rather funny if everyone put the word "novel" in their titles. "A novel approach to..." "Designing an novel device for the..." "Novel Applications in the field of..." "A novel use of proteins in the..."</p>
<p>Hahaha...I laugh at silly things...</p>
<p>Do you guys think I should start doing new research for next year now? I don't know if I will make semi's... so when would you suggest I start?</p>
<p>what time will they be posted on the 21st? I don't want to stay up all night if they won't be posted till morning!</p>
<p>by 5:00 PM ET, according to their website.</p>
<p>I'm very nervous. I really really hope that my project makes it to semi-finalists. It isn't like college apps, where people can give you estimates of chances. If you think about it, who wants to read a 20 page paper, especially if it isn't in their field?</p>
<p>The scary thing is that last year I believe 2 teams got in from NC, and 11/14 semifinalists were from my school... 3 teams are applying this year. :0 !!!</p>
<p>I was thinking, if people don't mind, we could make a collection of papers being entered this year. Of course, a lot of you will publish, so you probably won't want to.</p>
<p>I look at it this way: The act of writing the paper is a big accomplishmnet in itself. Many high schoolers have neither the initiative nor the patience to carry out a project, write a long paper about it, and respectfully address weaknesses in their paper/project that their mentor, etc. may point out. Whether we make it to semifinalist standing (or higher) or not, we've accomplished a lot for or ages.</p>
<p>So just relax for the next two weeks. You (we!) rock. :)</p>
<p>one week left!</p>
<p>zogoto what's your connection with the director of Siemens?</p>
<p>uhhh what? lol...</p>
<p>you seemed to quote the VP of SIemens a bit</p>
<p>Ohh yeah I talked to him on the last day of regional finals last year (he sat at the same table as me for the formal dinnerish thing).</p>
<p>The head of the chem dept said that we will get a magical phone call from the collegeboard to the phone number specified if we get to semis... that's like finding out on tuesday or wednesday! :)</p>
<p>sagar: really or joke?</p>
<p>That's what she says! Well... come to think about it, she didn't say whether it was finalist or semifinalist status upon which you got it. Just that you get it 2-3 days before, and they ask for you. If you get one from CB, you are a WINNAR!!! If not, just hope I am wrong!!! My school's had tons of finalist and semifinalists, so I'm pretty sure she is right, but then again, you never know ;)</p>