• Clear your topic with your supervising athletic trainer.
• The topic must be presented on a standard 22″ x 28″ poster board.

• NO irregular shaped posters will qualify for any judging or student choice award

• The body of the poster text must be TYPED with no less than 250 words and no more than 500 words.  Please, do not write this as a paper; it must be in poster lay-out.
• There must be at least two (2) professional publications with a bibliography (MLA format) displayed on the front of the poster to support the information researched for the topic.
• The poster must contain at least three graphics (photos, graphs, or charts).
• The text and graphics (drawings are acceptable) must be glued or taped to the poster (no staples).
• Place authors name, school, category and word count on the BACK of the poster.
• Posters who do not meet the minimum requirements will not be judged; but will be displayed.
• Professional athletic trainers will check in posters at registration.Example of Traditional poster

JUDGING OF THE TRADITIONAL POSTERS

• The posters will be divided into the 4 following categories
  1. Upper Extremity Injuries
  2. Lower Extremity Injuries
  3. Medical Conditions
  • Like Diabetes, Sickle Cell

  4. Miscellaneous

  • Anything that doesn’t fit into the above categories: Head, Thorax, concussion etc..

Awards presented to the top 3 in each category

COMPUTER GENERATED POSTERS

• Clear your topic with your supervising athletic trainer.
• The poster must be no larger than 4′ x 6′.
• The text must be typed with no less than 250 and no more than 700 words.
• There must be at least four (4) professional publications with a bibliography (MLA format) displayed on the front of the poster to support the information researched for the topic.
• The poster will consist of one computer printed sheet (no cut & paste, no background or matting)
• Place authors name, school, category (Computer Generated) and word count on the BACK of the poster.

• Posters who do not meet the minimum requirements will not be judged; but will be displayed.

• Professional athletic trainers will check in posters at registration.

Example of Computer Generated Poster

JUDGING OF THE COMPUTER GENERATED POSTERS

• All the posters will be judged together and the top 3 posters in will receive prizes.