1. Ottawa Regional Heritage Fair Project Guidelines and Assessment

2. Guidelines for Creating Projects All projects must have a Canadian theme An individual, a group may complete a project, however only one individual per project may be chosen to attend the Provincial or National fairs Projects may be done in either official languages of Canada Students must be able to provide written research undertaken to develop the project

3. Projects may take many forms: 3 Dimensional Projects and Displays Performances Creative Writing Multimedia Displays

4. 3 Dimensional Projects and Displays Models Posters Maps Collections Dimensions of projects may not exceed 80 cm in depth, 150 cm in width and 100 cm in height

5. Performances Music Drama Dance These should be presented live or on video.

6. Creative Writing Short stories Poetry Diaries Dialogues

7. Multimedia Displays Electronic projects –Powerpoint presentations –Web pages –Video performance Students must provide their own equipement.

8. Questions to ask when selecting a topic –What am I curious about? –What is everyone doing? –Current course topic, past topic, one yet to come –Well known, obscure or unique? –Broad breadth or focused? –What information is available? –What are my choices –How does the topic match the type? –Will this be a group or an individual project?

9. Topics that may be awarded special awards Please see our list of awards on our website at www.ottawaheritagefair.org!

10. To register or learn more To register: –directly online at our website: www.ottawaheritagefair.org To learn more please contact: Yolaine Munter Tel: (613) 741-4772 chair@ottawaheritagefair.org Margaret Stone Tel: (613)836-4152 registrar@ottawaheritagefair.org OR