Welcome to the RSF Demo Site
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The NJRSF is a high school student science competition in which students, individually or in groups, present a wide variety of projects. Most of the projects are investigative in nature, posing and attempting to answer some question or problem, either through experimentation and design or in a theoretical sense. All areas of science, math, and engineering are included. The fair accepts entries from ten counties of northern New Jersey: Bergen, Essex, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren. The navbar (above) gives useful navigation links for this website.
Our Mission
The mission of the NJRSF is to support, encourage, and recognize student involvement in scientific research.
It is our belief that students can only truly appreciate the creative nature of the scientific process if they
have actually experienced it themselves. In addition, we endeavor to provide resources which further this overarching
goal, including giving students various opportunities to interact with professional scientists
and engineers.
The opportunity to partake of the NJRSF itself as well as the other resources we offer is intended to be
open to all high school students in the northern NJ region.
For the last few years, major funding for the ISEF Trip Awards has been provided by Dun & Bradstreet. With their support, and additional funds from other sponsors, we have been able to send 4 individual projects to
ISEF.
Since 2010, thanks to a grant from AT&T, stemming from the
Netflix Prize,
we have been able to send a team project to ISEF.
Since 2014, this has been supported by general funds of the fair.
In order to continue this policy,
we will be seeking substantial funding from the members of the public who have
been involved with the NJRSF in the past.
For now, we simply point out that
we have a mechanism on the website for our supporters to
make an online contribution.
If you wish to contribute, you can designate your contribution to "NJRSF-2016."
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Some students have had difficulty with the process of signing and submitting the forms. In this context please note that we will not accept forms that have been printed and scanned after signature. The PDF forms provided on the website must be submitted as digitally signed PDF forms, or they must be signed on our website. To help you out with this process, we've provided these new links here on the top page:
Note: Students in other NJ counties not covered by another ISEF affiliated fair, may enter the NJRSF. At this time, all counties south of Mercer are covered by the Delaware Valley Regional Science Fair, run by Henry Disston, disstonh@drexel.edu. Students in Mercer County can usually access ISEF via the Mercer County Science Fair, run by the Trenton Times, and students in Hudson County can enter via the Hudson County Science Fair. If either of those fairs does not run in a given year, students may enter the NJRSF by default.
The fair provides the only route for students from the ten counties named above to gain entry to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), administered by the Society for Science and the Public in Washington, DC. A list of helpful links are given at the left, for information on these associated entities.
Students may want to get started on projects over the summer. Refer to the student information page for more information. In a nutshell, though, you should register your entry for the science fair before you initiate your project over the summer, and you should submit your research plan when it is available, so that it can be approved by our SRC.