Recruitment period

Wed. November 1st, 2023 to Thu. January 11th, 2024 at 23:59 in Japan Standard Time.

* Please note that new applications cannot be accepted after the deadline.

Points to note regarding presentation

1. Include ideas independently thought by junior and senior high school students (so that it can be conveyed that it is an idea with a dream)
2. When giving a shape to a research/technical idea, indicate the issues that need to be addressed before it can be realized.
3. Related findings and ideas of others must be cited as prior research in references (papers, etc.), in the　description of the background. In that case, please include the experimental method and its discussion as references.
4. Depending on the progress stage of the research, select and apply for either "initial planning stage," "preliminary results," or "research results." If it is exploratory research, reviewers must confirm the validity of the proposed research plan by conducting some kind of thought experiment even at the initial planning stage.
5. Concretely show some kind of result of the applicant's thoughts, experiments, etc., including brain storming and intermediate real results. As this is the most important point in the review of "preliminary results/research results", quantitative data and their interpretation should be attached as much as possible.
6. For experiments using humans, be sure to state that the experiment has been reviewed by an ethics committee, etc., or that there is no need for review, in accordance with your country’s law. For the Japanese delegates: animal experiments other than humans, instructors and affiliations are required to review “Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Notification No. 71”. We understood that instruction is being conducted at your schools, etc., based on the purpose of this MEXT notification, and no description is required.
7. In principle, the main part of the content of the application must be the original content of "Tsukuba Science Edge 2024". If there is a connection between your previously announced and scheduled publications, please indicate them before submitting this application. Please clearly demonstrate that the main content is unique to your study in that case.
8. If the whole or the main part of the content of the application has been published or submitted to elsewhere by the time of the announcement, it will not be accepted even if the title or authors are different. Therefore, please be careful not to make duplicate presentations with the same content and be sure to cite related results of the group to which the applicant belongs. In addition, please fully explain the autonomy and relevance of the application for the work that is scheduled to have been published elsewhere at the time of this application.

Guideline for Abstract

[ Abstract Form ]

• Please use the official name of the school as the same notation for both the registration and abstract forms.
• Please be sure to specify whether your application is in the initial planning stage, preliminary results, or research results.
• You can select the field that applies to you from the names of high school subjects, but depending on your assignment and purpose, it may be a interdisciplinary field or an integrated field. In that case, please refer to the following and always choose the best one. Please note that this is a mandatory item for registration, so applications without a field selected will not be accepted.
• Please note that if the field reflecting the content is not appropriate, the secretariat will change it to the most suitable field.
• Please refer to Startup checklist to fill in the abstract forms.
• You may fill this form up to two sheets of A4 size papers.
• When presenting "preliminary results" or "research results", it is necessary to submit the data of your own scientific speculation and experimental output.
• For judgement, please explain your methods and results by explanatory materials such as tables, charts, photos, etc. Please put respective number, title, and caption. Also in the References list, all necessary references are numbered and referred in the text.
• We recommend the explanatory materials such as tables, charts, photos, etc. in color.
• There is no limit to the number of pages of explanatory materials.
• To prepare the abstract (up to 2 papers of abstract form + explanatory materials) in Word format
• Only the Abstract Form will be printed in Abstract book.

[ Explanation of field-based subjects selection ]

Physics	engineering technology, manufacturing, materials, construction, robot production, etc.
Chemistry	food chemistry, pollution cleaning (chemical reactions), etc.
Biology	medicine, life sciences, agriculture, sports science, etc.
Geology (Environment) / Disaster Prevention	global environment, astronomy, fossils, etc.
Mathematics/information	information processing, program/application development, robot control, etc.
Others	(Social sciences, humanities, etc., which do not include scientific fields, are not included in the field of application, so they will not be screened.)

Submission for Abstract

•  * Please be sure to register for participation before submitting your abstract

• ① Click button below [Registration・Abstract Submission]
• ② Login to "My Page“ with the ID and Password you set in registration
• ③ Click the “Abstract: Submission/Confirm(Edit or Cancel)”button in “My page”
• ④ Submit the abstract (up to 2 papers of abstract form + explanatory materials) both in Word format and PDF format.
  * No files larger than 10.0 MB can be uploaded.

Registration·Abstract Submission

Confirm, Revise and Cancel submission for Abstract

• You can confirm, revise or cancel your abstract submission as many times as you wish up in “My page” until the deadline.
• When you revise your abstract submission, please re-upload both Word format and PDF format.
• We can not accept to make corrections even after deadline