Not Allowed At Exhibit
with the following:

• Living organisms, including plants
• Taxidermy specimens or parts.
• Preserved vertebrate or invertebrate animals
• Human or animal food
• Human/animal parts or body fluids
• Plant materials (living, dead, or preserved) which are in their raw, unprocessed, or non-manufactured state (Exception: manufactured construction materials used in building the exhibit)
• Laboratory/household chemicals, inlcuding water
• Poisons, drugs, controlled substances, hazardous substances or devices (Examples: firearms, weapons, tobacco products, etc.)
• Dry ice or other sublimating solids
• Sharp items (Examples: knives, etc.)
• Flames or other highly flammable materials
• Batteries with open-top cells
• Awards, medals, business cards, flags, endorsements, and/or other acknowledgements (graphic or written) unless the item(s) is an intergral part of the exibit.
• Photographs or other visual presentations depicting
  vertebrate animals in surgical techniques, dissections,
  necropsies, or other lab procedures.
• Active Internet or e-mail connections as part of displaying or operating the exhibit.
• Glass or glass obkects unless seemed by the Science Director(s) to be an integral and necessary part of the exhibit. (Exception: glass that is an integral part of a commercial project such as a computer monitor).
• Any apparatus deemed unsafe by the Scientific Review Committee or the Science Director(s). (Example: lasers, large vaccuum tubes, or empty tanks that previously contained combustibles, etc.)
  

Allowed At Exhibit BUT
Restrictions Indicated.

• Soil or waste samples if permanently encased in slab of acrylic
• Photographs and/or other visual depictions if: a.) they are not deemed offensive or inappropriate by the Science Director(s); b.) Credit lines of the origins ("Photograph taken by..." or "Images taken from...") are attached. If all photos are taken by the student or from the same source, one credit is sufficient); c.) They are from the Internet, magazines, etc. with credit lines attached; d.) They are photographs of human subjects for which signed consent forms are at the exhibit.
• Any apparatus with unshielded belts, pulleys, chains or moving parts with tension points if INOPERABLE AND FOR DISPLAY ONLY.
• Electrical devices IF INOPERABLE AND FOR DISPLAY ONLY.
• Nature Collections must be sealed behind acrylic so that the materials are not accessible to the public. (Plastic wrap is NOT good enough.)