All about CBSE Science Exhibition

So your teacher has listed your name in some science exhibition conducted by CBSE don’t worry this guide will guide you about everything to win this competition

About

This competition is mostly famous across CBSE schools. In larger set it is being most famous and common among in schools in regions like — Delhi, Delhi-NCR, Uttarakhand, UP(But not many schools participate) , Gurugram , Bangalore, some parts of MP like Indore. This competition is for the classes from 6–11. So you will find variety of students out there. This competition have 4 level CBSE-Regional, National and after that opportunity to represent in IRIS. After you win IRIS you can represent in India in ISEF. You can find students from nearly every CBSE school out there. This competition have a main theme and a 8 sub theme which covers all expects of science exhibition from ecology to bioscience to evil creations etc. So you can show your every evil science there.

Some general information before getting into this mess-:

1. Team size — it can vary from 2–4 students
2. You will only get certificate(only certificate no trophy till 2018 ) if you win nationals no certificate for participation in any competition.
3. Perks -: You will get exposure to interact with many students and get featured in some local newspaper that no one gives a shit about. You can travel to various states and it will be reimbursed by the CBSE or your school for student and their teachers.
4. You can register for this competition online if your teacher doesn't know a shit how to do on this website http://www.cbse.nic.in/newsite/index.html generally the notification in the month of October. you have to submit a nominal fee for that which gets change every year
5. A school can register a maximum of 2 exhibits/ projects/ models/ team.
6. A school team for an exhibit will be represented by either an individual student or two students and one mentor Science teacher.
7. The school team participating at the regional and national level will remain the same.
8. All the expenses related to the event would be borne by the school/team itself.(my school didn't follow this part lol and it was a DPS)

Now coming back to to win this competition

You will have to have really unique idea which somewhat is falling under main theme. Each regional, national and other competition have 4 rounds of judgement on the basis which is mentioned below —

Fig 1.1

Wining regional exhibition is easy they have to select 24 teams out of 50 which goes in nationals and in national 4 teams are to be selected from each topic for example — if there are 8 themes then 8x4 = 32 teams or projects have to selected. On the other hand in IRIS — top 100 teams are selected out of 250 teams.

My personal Experience -: when I started out in these competitions I was in 9th standard when I reach iris I was in 11th standard. To reach CBSE regional I have to go through various competitions like JRSSME,Kendra vidhyala science exhibition ,FIDC Lucknow…. in approx. 20 competitions. I have travelled a lot of states to showcase my project and won many cash prizes but at last nothing mattered no one cared what I did . Only I left was a lot of backlogs with medals and trophies. Wining was mostly easy for me because in these competition judges come from village schools or colleges and they dont care whether you discover a new algae or power source to light the world . they are only here for media presence. They select models on the basis of how well you explain how much LEDs you have on your project and good looking your model is or sometimes on the basis of school whether you belong to DPS or convent school. But if you wanted to go other school competition and you are not good at sports you can enroll yourself in these competitions it will give very good exposure.