NON-HUMAN VERTEBRATE ENDORSEMENT
ILLINOIS JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
THESE RULES WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED FOR THE LOCAL SCIENCE EXPOSITION.
NO PROJECT THAT DOES NOT MEET THESE REGULATIONS MAY BE EXHIBITED:
This form must be completed by students and sponsors doing a non-human vertebrate project. The
signature of the student or students and the sponsor indicates that the project was done within these rules
and regulations. Failure to comply with these rules will mean disqualification of the project at the local
level. This form must follow the safety sheet.
(1) No intrusive techniques may be used. Included in intrusive techniques would be things such as surgery,
injections, taking of blood, or giving of drugs and other chemical agents to measure their effect.
(2) No changes may be made in the organism's normal environment with the exception of maze running as
given in number 3. (This rule now clearly states that you cannot do ANYTHING to the organism and
measure its effect.)
(3) For maze running and other learning or conditioning activities food or water cannot be used or withheld
for more than 24 hours.
(4) The student and the sponsor have the responsibility to see that the animals are properly cared for in
well-ventilated, lighted, and warm locations with adequate food, water, and sanitary conditions. Care must
be taken to see that the organisms are properly cared for during weekends and vacation periods.
(5) Chicken or other bird embryo projects must be terminated at or before ninety-six hours.
(6) Projects that involve behavioral studies of newly-hatched chickens or other birds will be allowed if no
change has been made in the normal incubation and hatching of the organism and all vertebrate rules are
followed.
(7) No non-human vertebrate project will be allowed that is in violation of any of these rules. No person
may perform any experiment for the student that violates any of these rules.
(8) No person may give permission for a project that is in violation of these rules except in special cases as
described in the guidebook under the section entitled "EXCEPTIONS TO NON-HUMAN VERTEBRATE
AND HUMAN VERTEBRATE RULES."
The signature of the student or students and sponsor below indicates that the project conforms to the rules
of the Illinois Junior Academy of Science.
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(Sponsor)
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(Student)
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(Date)
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(Student)