One-year research mentorship · ISEF pathway
A whole-year mentorship for students who want to develop an original science or engineering idea, connect with an ISEF-affiliated fair, and prepare to explain and present their work.
What Is ISEF?
ISEF stands for the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. We connect students with an ISEF-affiliated fair that serves their area and help them understand how to enter and prepare their project.
Students in grades 9–12 or equivalent can advance to Regeneron ISEF when an affiliated fair selects their project and they meet the competition rules.
Kidvelopment provides year-long mentorship, project development, research skills, presentation practice, and preparation. Eligibility, approvals, affiliated-fair selection, and finalist status are determined by the applicable fair and Society for Science rules.
How Kidvelopment Helps
Tell us your grade, where you live, and what you want to investigate. We’ll help you identify the ISEF-affiliated fair that serves your area and understand your next step.
Our role is to guide the student through the year-long mentorship process, from the first question to project planning, evidence, revision, and presentation preparation.
Start a research conversationWhy Research Matters
Research gives students experience asking an original question, gathering evidence, explaining what their findings mean, and presenting their work clearly to an audience. Those habits build confidence, communication, and a stronger foundation for future study.
Research fields
Students can explore medicine, engineering, computing, physical sciences, environmental sciences, and social sciences. The official fair may use its own category list.
Biomedical and health sciences, translational medicine, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, microbiology, animal science, and plant science.
Biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, engineering design and mechanics, embedded systems, materials science, energy and sustainable design, and robotics.
Software design, computational biology and bioinformatics, mathematics, and technology in the arts.
Chemistry, physics and astronomy, earth and environmental sciences, and behavioral and social sciences.
Year-long mentorship
Kidvelopment’s mentorship follows the student through a full year of question development, investigation, revision, and presentation preparation.
Shape an interest into a focused, answerable question and identify the affiliated fair that serves the student’s area.
Build a project plan, collect observations or data, receive mentor feedback, and revise the work as the evidence develops.
Prepare the abstract, poster, presentation, and fair materials needed to communicate the project clearly.