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New Hampshire Science and Engineering Exposition (NHSEE)

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Eligibility

Who can participate in NHSEE: To participate in NHSEE, students need to meet either of two conditions.

  1. Be a resident of NH, even if they are going to a school that is not in NH.
  2. Be attending a public or private school in NH, even if they live outside of NH.

Registering for the expo

Register your project at https://nhsee.stemwizard.com/

REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY OPEN !

DEADLINES

Deadlines for the high school fair are as follows:

Note: If your project involves vertebrate animals and/or potentially hazardous biological agents, it MUST be reviewed and pre-approved by the NHSEE SRC BEFORE experimentation. If your project requires this pre-approval, you may submit your forms at any time, up until the due date below and as posted in the milestones in STEM Wizard.

If your project involves human participants, you must have an Institutional Review Board (IRB) at your school or research institute approve your project and sign off on Form 4 BEFORE experimentation starts.

Please click this link to view ISEF's Rules: https://ruleswizard.societyforscience.org/

Pre-Approval: Friday December 5, 2025

ISEF Forms and Research Plan Final Submittal: Sunday February 8, 2026

Please visit the tab for High School for more information!

Deadlines for the middle school fair are as follows:

Registration: Friday April 17, 2026

Final Forms and Payment: Friday May 8, 2026

Please visit the tab for Middle School for more information!

Advancing to ISEF

To advance to the ISEF competition: In order to earn a spot as a finalist at ISEF, high school student projects need to have scores that place them in the top three highest scoring projects in the fair.  Attendance and participation at the ISEF is subject to available funding by NHSEE. We have sent one, two and three projects in the past, so it may be only the first place project that is able to attend.

ADVANCING TO JIC

To advance to the Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge: The top 10% high scoring middle school projects (grades 6-8) will be eligible for JIC competition. 2026 will be the first time NHSEE will be able to nominate students to JIC competition!

SPECIAL AWARDS

Special Awards are anticipated to be awarded during the 2026 NHSEE fairs.  High school student projects will be able to  self-nominate for these awards using the self-nomination milestone in their STEM Wizard account.

DISPLAY RULES AND REGULATIONS

Maximum size of Project: Depth (Front to back): 30 inches or 76 centimeters; Width (side to side): 48 inches or 122 centimeters; Height (from top of table to top of display): 72 inches or 173 centimeters (tables are 30 inches or 76 centimeters high)

The upper portion of the display should include the title of the project. The display should NOT include the name of the school.

The background and sides of the project display can be put on a poster board (bi-fold; tri-fold; etc). Items on the display board could include graphs, charts, photographs, etc that provide info and help explain the project.  All photographs, diagrams, graphs and charts need to be captioned with the source of the material (i.e., "created by student using Canva", or URL or reference of where the item came from).

The following should also be at the project site so they can be checked by judges: Research Plan, Notebook, Abstract, Statement of Conclusion.


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