8. APPENDIX. Give more detailed and supplementary information, often
including graphs, tables, photographs, and drawings.
9. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Keep it brief, listing only those books and
periodicals which you actually used to provide background information.
10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Both prudence and the best traditions of science
require that you acknowledge all help which you receive. Usually
student scientists do not produce laboratory work of professional
quality, nor do student exhibitors match the skill of commercial
designers and fabricators. Consequently, when judges encounter very
exceptional unacknowledged work, they may reasonably wonder if the
exhibitor received some professional help. And if on part, they
speculate, on how much more? Result: they might be tempted to
disqualify the exhibit entirely, whereas if you had acknowledged
frankly—“Professor James Smith, Alpha University, for loan of four
color transparencies”, or “My father, who devised the lighting
system”—you might lose a point or two on their scorecards, but remain
in competition.
Your project notebook and your formal project report are important
components of your exhibit to follow. If both are completed first, you
will find planning the rest of your exhibit a much simpler task.