Help
What each part of this is for, and the questions people ask first.
Projects
A private workspace per project: notebook, documents with version history, literature, data, tasks, files, and paperwork. New projects are private, and nothing widens without you doing it.
Community
Twenty topic rooms for the awkward questions. Public — so keep unpublished results and anything identifying out of your posts.
Peer review
Ask for structured feedback on one specific thing. Reviewers see only the items you grant them, for only as long as you choose.
Paperwork guide
Answer a questionnaire, get a checklist of the forms your project likely needs and what has to be approved before you start. Informational only.
Resources
Guides on design, statistics, writing, safety, and rules. The things worth knowing before you need them.
AI reviewer
A short read on content you explicitly select. It names a few issues and points at reading. It is not a co-author and it can be wrong.
Common questions
- Who can see my project?
- Only you, until you say otherwise. Projects are private by default, and every widening is an explicit action on the project's Sharing tab. There is no administrator who can read your work — that is enforced by database policies, not by hiding buttons.
- What happens when I give someone review access?
- You pick which documents and sections they can read, and an end date. When that date passes the database stops serving those rows. After expiry the reviewer keeps access to the review they wrote and nothing else.
- Can a reviewer see my personal notes?
- No. Notebook entries marked personal are owner-only, and the peer-review permission that would allow them is constrained to false in the schema. There is no setting because there is no code path.
- Can moderators read my project?
- No. Moderators act on public content only — posts, comments, reports, resources, and archive entries. The moderation target type is an enum that cannot name a project, document, notebook entry, file, dataset, or peer review.
- Is the paperwork guide official?
- No. Form numbering follows the widely used ISEF convention, but rules differ by fair, region, and year. Nothing here is a determination — confirm every requirement with your fair's published rules, your adult sponsor, and your Scientific Review Committee.
- What does the AI reviewer send?
- Only the pieces you tick. A record of exactly what was sent is stored with the result. Responses live in their own table and are never merged into your writing.
- Something looks wrong, or someone is behaving badly.
- Report the post or comment with the report action on it. Reports go to moderators with the reason and your note. Anything involving safety or a real-world risk should also go to an adult you trust, not only to a forum.
- Your work is yours. Nobody reads it unless you share it.
- Advice here — including from the AI — is never approval. Your adult sponsor and your review committee are the authority on safety and paperwork.
- Never post participant data, precise locations of sensitive sites, or anyone's contact details.
- Credit anyone who helped, and be able to say exactly what they did.