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hey there my name's rishab I did science
fair for over 8 years winning some of
the top awards at regeneron ISF broadcom
Masters in National JS today I'm an
undergrad at Harvard and I still make
science posters for research symposiums
and conferences in this video I'm going
to be walking you through from start to
finish on how you can design a winning
masterful science fair board I work with
multiple students every week to coach
them to win ISF jshs and other science
fairs and one thing that I always tell
my students is that you guys have to
make sure the primary subject of the
science fair is you you are the
scientist you are the individual that's
presenting your work just remember treat
your poster board as an aid it's there
to help you this video was sponsored by
poster Smith and I've actually partnered
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this here is my winning ISF science fair
trifold board and a ton of students
email me or they write down in the
comment section of the video that hey
rishab I'm you know a seventh grader in
middle school it's my first year
competing in science fair I have no idea
how to you know Design This sort of
board well don't worry guys I'll show
you how you can design this board but
just something to consider here is that
this you know is a winning ISF board
it's two years worth of work condensed
as you guys can see there's a ton of
small images a ton of small text so if
it's your first year competing in
science fair or to be Frank if you just
don't have a crazy amount of material
that you think you could even fit on a
board then you may want to go with this
sort of style this is actually not a
full poster print but rather using 8.5
by 11 sheets of paper just printed in a
standard you know laser color printer
sort of thing you cut those out and glue
them onto your board or use double-sided
tape and I'll give you guys the exact
sort of methods that I use to assemble
this board as well but it's just
something to consider at the very
beginning all right so you want to make
your science for poster board in
PowerPoint and print it out well let me
show you how to do that this here is my
ISF template right and I created this
this one in my junior year of high
school ended up winning ISF and I
decided to use it for my senior year
research project as well as you can see
over here now that being said I just
highlighted this there's literally
thousands of elements being highlighted
on this on the single pptx took me a ton
of time to make that being said how can
you kind of get this template well
unfortunately I don't really want this
just floating around on the internet and
every kid kind of using this poster so
what I've decided to do is actually
include it in my a toz course where I
teach students how to make a WI science
fair presentation enjoy their research
and also you know answer hard judging
questions and really appeal with their
posters and whatnot so if you want to
see my kind of Master Class where I
teach you how to win ISF win national
science fairs and also have this sort of
a template included along with my ISF
quad chart and some other useful stuff
go check out my course it'll be linked
in the description below you want to
just create this by hand how do you do
that well let me let me actually show
you exactly how I did that right I'm not
going to gatekeep that if you create a
new Pres presentation and PowerPoint you
can go to page setup over here you can
type in you know your width your height
let's say you want um 48x 36 this is
pretty standard for you know your
Elmer's trifold you'll find in Walmart
right um You scale that voila now you
have your your poster now the next step
is of course making all those different
boundaries and tons and tons of lines on
here um again tons of time that that
goes into creating a template like that
but that being said what kind of things
do you need on the actual poster here on
PowerPoint like how do you create those
well what you can do is you can go to
insert and you can actually create these
sorts of shapes you can create you know
squares for these different boxes and
whatever you need but what what should
you title those what should those
actually be called some people will have
abstracts other people won't some people
will have hypotheses other people will
have engineering objectives instead
other people won't have either of those
because there's a they're a math project
and they want to talk about their Lemma
or their theorem or whatever so that
being said there are tons of different
types of projects that will need to use
different templates typically they're
going to have two broad categories one
is science inquiry and the other is
engineering now you you may be thinking
no Risha mine has a biology or mine has
a computer science right but at its core
there are two main buckets science
inquiry and Engineering those can fit in
any of those categories right you can
have an engineering project in the
biology category but those are the two
main types of projects one is where you
come up with a hypothesis that in this
experiment I think that the eoli colony
is going to die or you know in this
experiment I think that you know this
specific Gene will be highly expressed
that is more of a science inquiry sort
of project you're doing an experiment to
answer a question you have some sort of
guess or a hypothesis about where that's
going to go on the other hand you have
your engineering types of projects
engineering projects are primarily what
I did those ones you instead come up
with an engineering claim so as you guys
can actually see over here I will show
parts of this to you robustness
functionality specifications um and
that's actually specified how you're
going to build your solution what it
should have right the primary secondary
end points that you want your solution
to have and that's what you would
include on your board but roughly there
will be these sorts of sections right
some sort of abstract and introduction
near the top I was actually super unique
in my visual abstract when of the judges
uh display and safety head actually came
up to me at at at my project and was
like we had a super lengthy conversation
about your project you're the first
project that we've ever seen that's used
this visual abstract thing and we had to
discuss whether or not should disqualify
you know you for having that visual
abstract but he said the the conclusion
the committee made was that because it's
a visual abstract not an abstract you're
allowed to have it on the board and so I
guess that rule is now clarified for
everyone you can have a visual abstract
anyway you have an introduction some
sort of background information I like to
include figures you know you do want to
show not necessarily just constantly
bombard people with paragraphs a text so
some bullet points couple images here
and there definitely looks nice and you
know gets your point across then some
form of research objectives again this
could look like a hypothesis or an
engineering claim or some variation of
that then in the main middle section
here what people typically do is have
their methods or procedures so here you
can create a ton of different figures
again show not tell is a great idea here
because as an ISF competitor science
fair competitor you're going to have
your board hanging and then you're
really just going to be pointing to the
board or pointing to specific things
you're not going to be reading off your
board right that's you know a negative
so you want to mainly have figures and
images on your board and you're really
just pointing to those and saying oh as
you guys can see here this is a
71.9% Improvement or as you can see over
here there's a dip in the graph whatever
right you want to point to things and
that's why I like to have a lot of
images in the method section finally
here there's a a results in the main
middle part here again this is like a
very you know consistent format that
I've seen across posters and I think
this kind of works best um then on the
right side there's a again a ton of
variability in what people do so some
people will have data analysis other
people just go straight into conclusions
what I'd recommend is if your project
involves a lot of data let's say you're
doing some wet lab experiments or you're
developing a computational algorithm you
want to have some form of data analysis
or statistical analysis thrown in there
on the right side there then below that
you can have your conclusions and
discussions because that's where you're
really getting your point across that
what do these results mean and
contextualizing those sometimes in the
discussions people like to toss in
future work there but I thought it just
looked a little a little bit nicer to
separate those out so that's what I
ended up going with and then at the
bottom here this is a question that I
actually get a lot which is about key
references because a ton of people are
like I can't fit 30 references onto my
poster well what you can do is use key
references and I honestly don't see a
lot of people doing this but I I hope
people start doing it now because this
is a great way to do it you know print
out your full bibliography your full
references in your paper and instead
only include the most important ones on
your poster I think that's a very solid
way to approach it so that's how you can
kind of design this again a ton of time
went into putting the exact colors and I
literally made Vector Sprites for all of
these and added shading onto them and
and really spent like hundreds of hours
into fine-tuning this board so as I was
actually going to look for my uh Middle
School level science faer poster where I
printed out 8.5x 11 sheets I just found
this poster way back from 2018 from my
like seventh grade science fair project
so as you guys can see I came a long way
I think I was using some form of a
template in this one and then modified
it a decent bit to come to this one uh
but yeah I mean it overall I guess the
same sort of sections apply right you're
some form of B uh background and
Abstract some research objectives
hypotheses that sort of thing methods
then results data analyses conclusions
and and future work that's sort of the
rough sort of layout you should go for
on a poster that being said how can you
go about the other type of science fair
poster so this is kind of one way to do
it right you just open up a Google doc
and you guys can actually just type in
this sort of text like this and print
them out straight out on an 8.5x 11 then
you can cut those up or glue them onto
your poster accordingly I think this is
a really simple way to do it that
definitely works for a lot of people but
something that's just a little bit more
advanced but I think looks a whole lot
better is instead using Google slides
and here you can create you know again
page setup set up uh an 8.5 by 11 sort
of sheets so that actually you can end
up printing those out and um once you
set that up you can you can actually add
in these sorts of headers so just add in
like a rectangle at the top then type in
some sort of text and then you guys can
print those out and that's exactly how
you can make a title as well as you can
see here like if you just print out this
part and and end up cutting this part
out and glue those together uh side by
side you can even create a create a
title in that way so I'd highly
recommend you explore one of those two
different ways again the same sort of
thing applies in terms of sectioning and
what material to include on your poster
but I would recommend you know uh laying
those out cutting them up on your board
and then putting them on now how do you
actually construct a poster board right
you'll see some of my videos or you'll
see some of these things online like how
do you actually get these physically
onto a board I feel like that's kind of
something that's never discussed and
it's kind of hard the first time you're
doing it uh to even create these sorts
of things so if you're just glue let's
say you get your yourself a 36x 48
trifold and you have your posted printer
what you can do is use double-sided tape
to actually just Roll Along the
double-sided tape along all the edges of
the poster as you can see here and then
paste that on top now another method you
can do if you print out the paper
version is you can put glue on the edges
or again double-sided tape and put those
again laid out onto your trifold poster
and it'll end up looking something like
this where you actually have those
slides cut out like this okay so let me
put you all on a little hack and this is
something something that comes with
years of science fair experience and
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printing your posters now that being
said how do we actually spice up your
presentation add in some extras to
really make you stand out so now that
you've got your beautiful poster set up
there's two more things you can do
number one is add in extras to your
science fair Booth right you can have in
additional materials such as a binder or
a computer or a lab notebook which
really just add a little bit of a touch
to spice up your overall presentation
you know you can point to specific
things from your lab notebook or let's
say you're not at your booth and a judge
just comes by they can look through that
extra material and this is something
that is not necessary but I've noticed
that a lot of top winners have this this
is typically because they perform some
form of literature review or they write
a research paper which they can add into
their binder you know annotate out
research papers highlight things it
really looks good to show that you've
put in the work for This research
project now these extras are a great way
to enhance I guess the visuals of your
presentation but as I alluded to at the
beginning of this video I think it's
super important that students really
focus on themselves right you're the one
speaking you're the one conveying your
science and so at the end of the day it
really comes down to what you're saying
as a part of your presentation and as I
mentioned I coach a ton of students on
almost a daily basis through Rish
Academy which I'll have linked down in
the description below but one thing that
I really like to tell students to focus
on is highlighting three main points
whether it's in their background their
methods or at the very end of their
presentation always highlight several
key things that you really want judges
to take away from your project this is
something that other ISF winners have
also told me another big suggestion that
I have for students is to really work on
making their tone a little bit more
conversational kind of how I'm speaking
to you guys right now rather than
seeming really rehearsed and scripted
really focus on building a natural tone
this can be developed by speaking in
front of a mirror or talking to parents
or friends while presenting a research
project and the final piece of advice I
have for you in your presentation is to
remember that the audience never knows
what you left out I actually gave a
tedex talk several years ago and one of
the best pieces of advice that I
received was that you know you can cut
anything from your presentation the
audience never knows what you left out
they only know what you put in and so
for students who are struggling to get
their presentation within a time limit
or something like that remember you can
always make Cuts if you enjoy this video
and you want more tips to win science
fair click the link in the description
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