Rules & Project Guidelines

Biotechnology can be defined as the use of the knowledge of biological systems to solve problems and to produce goods and services.

1. A project is deemed relevant if its content relates to the various applications of biotechnology such as health care, agriculture and forestry, food processing, mining and the environment; and it applies the knowledge and techniques of the current courses at school and/or other scientific studies such as biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology and biotechnology.

2. An exhibitor may not display an identical project at any subsequent SABC Competition and must declare in his/her application how an improved proposal differs from one that was approved in a previous year. Any continuing research must document substantial expansion of investigation and students will be judged on the current year’s work only.

3. The project should conform to the sections of student activities, applications and possible extensions described in the Pan-Canadian Common Framework for Science Learning Outcomes.

4. The project must include scientific experiments that recognize and control all significant variables and demonstrate excellent collection, analysis and presentation of data.