YRI Fellowship | How to Make an ISEF-Winning Poster (What the Judges Actually Look For)

A 14-minute webinar from the YRI Fellowship founder on building a science fair poster that gets noticed, understood and remembered at Regeneron ISEF, JSHS and regional fairs. What the poster has to do in the first three seconds, the biggest mistake students make (a paper glued to a board), how to build the story before the design, the golden rule of making your headline result impossible to miss, typography sizes that read from ten feet away, the layout that gives a judge a path, why figures are the poster, how to make scientific data look scientific, and a full walkthrough of an example poster. Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:26 What the poster has to do 2:39 The biggest mistake: paper on a board 3:22 Build the story before the design 6:39 The golden rule: make the result impossible to miss 7:23 Design the poster for distance 8:20 Layout: give the judge a path 9:30 Figures are the poster 10:04 Make scientific data look scientific 11:53 Photos, prototypes and the rulebook 12:11 Example poster walkthrough 13:04 Wrap-up The YRI Fellowship pairs high school students 1:1 with a PhD mentor to take an original research question to a finished paper in 10 weeks, with coaching for ISEF, JSHS and regional fairs. 87% of Fellows publish. Apply: https://yriscience.com #ISEF #ScienceFair #ResearchPoster #HighSchoolResearch #Regeneron #YRIFellowship