As per past experience it has been found that projects which were rated very good had the following elements while implementing and documenting the project:

• Proper understanding and definition of the problem undertaken.
• Quality and quantity of work, including team work, learning process, subject understanding and efforts to validate the data collected.
• Relevance of the proposal to the community/school problem and impact of project on schoolmates, neighbourhood community.
• Originality, innovation and creativity shown to understand the problem and find solution i.e. in methodology and experiment design.

The Project may follow the steps of SMART approach

S –  Specific –  The subject/issues of study must be specific M –  Measurable –  The issues of study must be measurable in quantitative/qualitative forms so that component of comparability is maintained A –  Appropriate  –   The topic must be appropriate to focal theme and subthemes, along with field study area, methodology must be appropriate to nature of the issues considered for the study, R –  Realistic –  The issues of the study must be realistic along with the methodology adopted for the purpose T –  Time bound –  study must be carried out in limited time frame. The project activities may not destabilized normal activity schedule of the Child.