SciPath
A scaffold for student research
One project, from the day it is registered to the day it is published. The guides, the deadline calendars, and every published record are open to anyone, with no account and nothing stored about you.
The five stages
Publication is the last stage of a project's life, not a separate product.
- Registered 01
- In progress 02
- Fair ready 03
- Competed 04
- Published 05
Dates, checked
The forms that must be signed before experimentation begins are checked against the date the work actually started. Getting that order wrong disqualifies students every year, and it is the single failure that no reminder email reliably catches.
Work, recorded
Field notes are appended and timestamped, never edited. A wet lab student photographs a notebook page; a software student pastes a commit summary. Both satisfy the same requirement.
Work, published
A permanent, indexed, citable record with its own URL, so a student can link it from an application years later and it still resolves.
Everything a student needs in order to prepare well is on the public half of this site: the guides, the deadline calendars, the mistakes other students have already made, and every published record. That half requires no account, holds nothing about you, and stays that way. It is the part that reaches a student whose district will never sign a data agreement.
| Surface | Holds | Account |
|---|---|---|
| Public | Published records, guides, deadlines, common mistakes | Never |
| Working | Projects in progress, field notes, milestones, review | Required |
Nothing is published here yet
Published records appear as soon as the first project reaches the publication stage. The guides and the deadline calendars are already open.
Name, email, school, graduation year, a sponsor's email, a guardian's email, and the project work a student writes.
Nothing else. No date of birth, no address, no phone number, no grades, no demographics. We do not read documents a student links to, and we never train models on student work. The full page takes about two minutes to read.