The abstract is a 200 - 250 word summary of your entire project written in past tense. It must include your hypothesis, brief explanation of the procedures, and an overview of your observations. In addition, it must include your conclusion and must identify the manipulated, responding and controlled variables. The abstract should convince the reader that your experiment was of sufficient interest to have undertaken it.

The abstract is placed on the display board with the title, purpose, hypothesis, materials, procedures, pictures, results, and conclusion.