Eligibility Rules
- : Each EXPO applicant must be a student currently enrolled in grades 9-12 in any educational setting recognized by the State of New Hampshire at the time of qualifying for the NHSEE.
- : Each EXPO applicant may enter only one project in the Individual Competition. Each individual project may have up to two authors. Each EXPO entry for a Challenge project may have up to four authors. All work must be done by the students named as authors for either the individual or Challenge Competitions. Projects prepared by students other than those claiming authorship will be disqualified.
- : When registering as an entry for the Individual Competition, the applicant will declare the category for their project. The Directors of Judging will determine, upon review of submitted Project Summaries, the correctness of the category for each project.
- : The NHSEE reserves the right to disqualify any project due to poor quality, incompleteness, or inappropriateness of project content.
- : Any project re-entered from a past NHSEE must show substantial new research and development to be eligible for an award. Final determination shall be made by the category judges.
- : Students not accompanied by their own parent(s) must be under authorized supervision by an adult escort, teacher, or administrator. Each student must have appropriate signed permission form(s) as required by his/her own school district. The NHSEE is not responsible for the supervision of any participant.