SciPath

From idea through publication

Plan the project. Meet the requirements. Keep the record.

SciPath is forThree ways to read this
What this doesThe problem, and the answer to it

A good project is lost to a form signed a week late, an approval nobody mentioned, a deadline that moved, or work scattered across a folder, an inbox and somebody else's memory. Those failures are procedural rather than intellectual, they fall hardest on the students whose schools have the least to spare, and software can catch every one of them.

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.

How research goes

Registration through publication, on one page that fills up as the year goes.

  1. Register

    The project exists, with authors.

  2. Work

    Notes, files, shared writing.

  3. Package

    Deliverables and whatever the program requires.

  4. Participate

    A class milestone, a fair, or simply the work itself.

  5. Share

    A permanent record with its own address.