Workshop 3

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Workshop 3

• Science Fair Backboards

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Overview

• All projects must have a notebook and a backboard
• The notebook must contain reports on literature,
  statement of the problem, materials used,
  variables and controls, hypothesis, procedure,
  data, results, conclusions, and recommendations
• The backboard must be a summary of the stuff in
  the notebook

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Backboard Summary

• Describe the major elements of the project
• Must be easily read from 3 feet away
• Someone reading your board should get a good idea
  of your project within 2 minutes (without looking
  at anything else)
• Graphs, photographs, illustrations, and equipment
  displays are good
• Flashing lights, glitter, excessive color, etc.
  are not

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The Board

• Regular tri-fold board is optimal
• Maximum of two such boards stacked on each other
• Information should be computerized, free of
  spelling and grammar errors

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What to Include

• A title something professional yet catchy
• Summaries of the following (varies depending on
  project)
• Statement of the problem
• Hypothesis
• Procedures
• Results (photos, graphs, data tables, discussion)
• Conclusions
• Applicability to the outside world

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Tips and Tricks Writing the Information on the
Board

• Your backboard is only a summary your notebook
  is where most of the info should be
• Make sure everything is readable and clear to a
  person who has no idea about your project
• Try to limit your colors to a maximum of two,
  besides white and black

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Tips and Tricks Creating the Board

• Test out a few different layouts
• In general, dont use a glue stick or white glue
  to attach paper, especially thick paper (they
  comes off easily)
• Use permanent double-sided tape or some other
  more-permanent adhesive instead
• But dont glue the paper down until you are sure
  of the layout
• Printing the whole board on one large page has
  also been done

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Sample Display Board