This form serves as indication of your school’s intent to participate in the MSEF Region VII
regional fairs. Please submit ONLY one form packet per school. If you, the Key Teacher,
represent multiple schools in your district, please submit this form for each school.
If another teacher in your school should receive email notifications from our office,
please include the other teacher's name and email address in the 'Additional Contact' fields
provided on the 'About' tab. Please designate ONE teacher per school as the Key Teacher.
(Only include if this person should receive system notifications.)
Our students will be conducting experiments involving humans and/or animals (Required):
A Scientific Review Committee (SRC) is a group of adults knowledgeable about regulations
concerning experimentation especially with vertebrate animals and potentially hazardous
biological agents. The SRC must review and approve all projects in these areas before
experimentation may begin. Shortly before competition, the Fair SRC will also review the
documentation for ALL projects to ensure that students have followed all applicable rules
and that the project is eligible to compete.
The SRC must include at least the 3 following members:
a. Biomedical scientist (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., D.O.) |
b. Science educator |
c. At least one other member |
Members of the SRC may also serve on the IRB for a school. The SRC Chairperson must be a biomedical scientist
who is not a classroom teacher. Refer to operations guidelines at
http://www.societyforscience.org/Document.Doc?id=38
for further information.
SRC Chairperson
SRC Committee Member 1
SRC Committee Member 2
SRC Committee Member 3
An Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a committee that, according to federal regulations (45-CFR-46),
must evaluate the potential physical and/or psychological risk of research involving human subjects.
All proposed human research must be reviewed and approved by an IRB before experimentation begins.
This includes review of any surveys or questionnaires.
Federal regulations require local community
involvement; therefore an IRB should
be established at the school level to evaluate human research projects. An IRB at the school or
ISEF Affiliated Fair level must consist of a minimum of three members. In order to eliminate
conflict of interest, the Adult Sponsor, parents, the Qualified Scientist, and the Designated
Supervisor who oversee a specific project must not serve on the IRB reviewing that project.
Additional members are recommended to help avoid this conflict of interest and to
increase the expertise of the committee.
This IRB must include the following members:
a. Science teacher |
b. School administrator (preferably, a principal or vice principal) |
c. One of the following who is knowledgeable and capable of evaluating the physical
and/or psychological risk involved in a given study: a medical doctor, physician’s assistant,
registered nurse, a psychiatrist, psychologist, licensed clinical counselor (professional, mental health)
or licensed social worker
|
Refer to operations guidelines at
https://student.societyforscience.org/roles-and-responsibilities-students-and-adults#IRB for further information.
IRB Chairperson
IRB Committee Member 1
IRB Committee Member 2
IRB Committee Member 3