Hello Steemians!

Here comes the official Submission/ Entry post for the first Steemit Science Fair, organized by @steemSTEM. I hope you guys had a great time preparing for your project in the past two weeks since the first announcement of the #sciencefair. Again the new tag #sciencefair will be dedicated for use of this project.

Everyone can participate in the first #sciencefair on Steemit by joining the #sciencefair contest, or voting the science projects that you like. (It is still open for new participants)

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All participants please read carefully regarding the submission for the @steemSTEM #sciencefair:

Submission of #sciencefair project post:

• All participants (each account) can now post their content on Steemit
• The title of your project post must contain "SteemSTEM Science fair Entry:"
• The tag for your post must contain #sciencefair to facilitate judges access
• All participants must leave comments of their post URL links in the designated comment area below (reply to my comment).
  (Any non-submission comments will be considered spam, and maybe flagged)
• All participants should consider upvoting and resteeming this 2nd post it helps us get more exposure and will better enable us to expand this and other contests in the future. Thank you for your help!
• Submissions period ends upon 14th days after this posting, when SBD payouts are finalized, (deadline 11-Sept-2017 UTC 12:00am).

==Remember the deadline for all submissions ends on 11-Sept-2017 UTC 12:00am!!==

AND

• Photo or video documentations of the projects are required as there are no physical locations where the science fair is happening. One photo or video must showing the finalized submission project along with a hand written/sign showing "1st steemSTEM Science Fair" and their corresponding entry account name, as a proof of authenticity. Failure of providing such proof will be disqualified.

Rewards

All SBD payout from this post and the 2nd post will goes to Rewards of the Science Fair winners
1st Place: 30% SBD Payout from the 1st (23.1 SBD) and 2nd post + 100 SP (from @steemstem)
2nd Place: 20% SBD Payout from the 1st (15.4 SBD) and 2nd post + 50 SP (from @steemstem)
3rd Place: 10% SBD Payout from the 1st (7.7 SBD) and 2nd post + 25 SP (from @steemstem)
People's favorite project: 10% SBD Payout from the 1st (7.7 SBD) and 2nd post
The remaining 30% SBD (23.1 SBD) goes to (Bilingual rewards)

Honorable thank you for @mcw for his generous SBD payout donation of the Chinese translated SteemSTEM Science Fair post to increase the reward payout.

To Steemians who missed the first science fair post, please read the following:

If this is your first encounter to our science fair post, you are still able to join (only with lesser time to work on your project), if you are still interested, you can follow the instructions below

Requirements of the Projects

All projects should be science related:

• If you are demonstrating an effect, you must state the principles behind, with explanations why and how this works in layman understandable terms. (As they will be our general audience).

• If you are experimenting with new ideas, you must state give a brief introduction about the idea and why you think it is interesting, provide a scientifically sounded hypothesis, briefly describe the procedures and conditions of your experiment, and finally, report your results. Explanations for each step would be helpful for the audience.

• All participants must be able to provide detailed procedures upon request, so others who are interested in performing the experiments by themselves could do just that! All experiments should be repeatable under similar conditions.

• All terms must be scientifically correct and flow of the presentation should be logical.

• The primary language for the Science fair will be in English, bilingual translation for other native speaking language may receive extra SBD rewards.

Restrictions

• All project participants should place safety as their first priority; any experiments that risk harming the participants and other personal or animals/ environment are strictly prohibited.

• No harm should be done to any animals for the experiments.

• Hazardous and other dangerous chemicals must be handled under proper safety conditions or under guidance of people with qualified training to handle such chemicals.

Disclaimer

SteemSTEM and any committee members of the steemSTEM Science fair will not be held responsible for any consequence which arise from participant projects, each participants will bare they own responsibility for their actions in taking part in their projects.

General guidance of the submitted post: (not mandatory style)

1. Summary of your post
   Brief overview of your hypothesis, problems, methods, results and conclusions.

2. Introduction
   Brief introduction of participants, background of the Science fair project, what concepts are you trying to bring forward.

3. Question and Proposal
   Asking the right question is the beginning of all science, how to plan for answering that question is the following steps towards science.

4. Research and testing
   Researching the background and setting up appropriate tests with different experimental techniques to answer your question is the way of scientific discovery. All methods done should be clearly described and upon request must be able to provide the materials and methods in detail.

5. Results and Conclusions
   Accurate and consistent recording of data, results, and observations are the key for good science, clear presentation of the results, will help make solid descriptive conclusions. Negative data doesn't mean they are bad, as long as having proper controls and methods; this could lead to rejections of hypothesis, which is still a major step in science!!

6. References and Acknowledgements
   Referencing others' knowledge source and thanking other people for any assistance is a proper etiquette in science.

Criteria and maximum score for each related area:

1. Introduction, Question and Proposal (Max: 20)
2. Research and Testing (Max 40)
3. Results (Max 20)
4. Conclusions (Max 20)
   Perfect score is 100.

People's favorite project awards will be given base on the **number of upvotes for that post in the comment area in below, upvote the ones you like in the submission area, do not use bots or trails to be fair, once discovered might be disqualified. (There are no limits to the number of project that you can upvote)

Judge panels

-Members of the SteemSTEM management team and other invited guests will be the judges for steemSTEM Science fair events.
-Our judge panels might ask questions in your post, so be sure to reply to the comments, follow up questions might also be asked.
-Our judge panels reserves the right of final decision on the interpretation of rules and award winners.

Extra rewards (if applicable)

-Bilingual post can share extra SBD rewards.

All content should be original and plagiarism of any kind will result in disqualification of the participant.

Please leave your comments in the designated area (reply to my comment below) to submit your project for the 1st Science Fair on Steemit, organised by SteemSTEM

If you need any suggestions or have any questions with your science project feel free to drop by at our channel on steemit.chat (https://steemit.chat/channel/steemSTEM), we would love to help you out!

We welcome anyone to help us translate this post into other language, they will be posted below:
Chinese translation translated by @mcw

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SteemSTEM
Secondly, please consider supporting the @steemstem project. SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks to promote well written/informative Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics postings on Steemit. The project not only curates STEM posts on the platform through both voting and resteeming, but also re-distributes curation rewards as STEEM Power, to members of Steemit's growing scientific/tech community.

To learn more about the project please join us on steemit.chat (https://steemit.chat/channel/steemSTEM), we are always looking for people who want to help in our quest to increase the quality of STEM (and health) posts on our growing platform, and would love to hear from you!

Finally, consider joining the @steemstem voting trail, the project account only votes on STEM related posts, so being a part of the trail will allow you to selectively benefit our growing science and tech community on the platform. We thank you for your generous support.