News & updates
ISEF news & updates
Season announcements, deadlines, results, and guidance for students preparing for the International Science and Engineering Fair.
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ISEF Team Projects (2027): How the Three-Person Limit and Division-of-Labor Rules Actually Work
Understand the strict three-person cap for ISEF team projects, how Hong Kong selection works, and practical strategies for dividing research labor effectively.
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ISEF Research Mentor: Choosing Support Before You Commit to a Project
How to evaluate an ISEF research mentor who teaches independent research rather than selling a finished project, with practical questions for Hong Kong families.
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Hong Kong ISEF 2027 Registration: Verified Dates and Source Guidance
Hong Kong government confirms 19 August–13 October 2026 registration for the International Science Competition Hong Kong Regional Final 2027, selecting projects for HKSAR delegations to ISEF and Geneva.
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ISEF Medical Research for Pre-Med Students (2027): What the Rules Allow, What They Ban, and Which Category Fits
Pre-med students can do real ISEF medical research inside firm limits: no diagnosing, no procedures on others, no purified amyloid or tau. Rules and categories.
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ISEF Mathematics Projects (2027): What Counts as Research When Your Result Is a Proof, Not a Measurement
ISEF Mathematics rewards proofs, bounds and honestly labelled conjectures, judged with science-worded criteria. What counts as new, and how to defend it.
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Not Selected for the ISEF Finals: What the Work Is Still Worth, and What to Do With It This Autumn
Most serious projects stop before the May finals. What the work is still worth, what you may honestly call it, and the four routes forward this autumn.
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Where Your ISEF Data Actually Comes From (2027): Four Routes, Four Rule Sets, and the Test Judges Apply
Four ways an ISEF data set can be produced, the rule attached to each, and the four rungs that separate numbers you happen to have from numbers you can defend.
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From ISEF to Rhodes Scholar: Five Society for Science Alumnae Head to Oxford, and What Their Long Arcs Actually Show
Five Society for Science alumnae – veterans of ISEF, Broadcom MASTERS and the Regeneron Science Talent Search – were named 2026 Rhodes Scholars and head to Oxford this autumn, per the Society’s own alumni feature. Their five trajectories, from middle-school science fairs through MIT, Yale, Stanford and UBC, are the clearest recent evidence of what…
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Generative AI and Your ISEF Project (2027): What the Rules Ban, What They Allow, and How the Interview Finds Out
The rules name four documents generative AI may not write. The exact wording, the three different ways students use AI in a season, and why the interview is the real check.