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Everything you need to know about registering for S3

 

  • The SDSU Student Symposium will be held on March 1 and 2, 2024.
  • Registration will be open from September 19th, 2023 to January 24th, 2024!
  • A registration guide is available.
  • All current SDSU students engaged in research, scholarship, and creative activities with SDSU mentors are eligible to present. If you are in a joint doctoral program with an SDSU mentor, you are also eligible.
  • Students may elect to make an oral presentation, a poster presentation, performance/film, or exhibit (art projects; paintings; sculptures; three dimensional display).
  • Students must work with an SDSU faculty mentor before submitting an abstract. You will be required to submit information about your mentor when you register:
    • Name
    • Department
    • Mentor Email Address
  • All entries must have an abstract written by the student and reviewed/edited by their faculty mentor. Mentors should not write the abstract, but guide the student in developing the abstract.
  • Abstracts should be 350 words or fewer.
  • Duplicate abstracts submitted by different authors will be automatically rejected.
  • Typically research abstracts contain the following elements, you should consult with your advisor(s)/mentor(s) prior to submission:
    • Hypothesis or statement about the problem or project
    • Statement of the methods (research that utilizes existing/secondary data sets is acceptable)
    • Essential results or outcomes
    • Conclusion or summary (initial or preliminary results/data are acceptable)
  • Abstracts describing creative arts and performances are encouraged to provide a short description of the piece with a summary of the process by which you created your work. Process is how you put what you have learned and researched into your performance or artwork. For example, a sculptor could talk about media, a composer could talk about musical influences, an actor could talk about rehearsal techniques like Meisner or Viewpoints..
  • Only one student can be listed as the first author; 3 additional students can be listed as co-authors. A student can be first author on only one abstract. However, there is no limit to the number of abstracts on which a student is a co-author.
  • Group presentations can have as many as 4 presenters. If a group's presentation scores are high enough to receive an award, award funds will be divided equally based upon the number of participants in that group.
  • Presentations, whether oral, poster, exhibit or performance/film, are organized by academic disciplines for undergraduate and graduate students.

  • S3 will be held in person at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union.