: Public Registration: Teachers

Unless you have participated in a previous contest and registered on a similar system prior to this event, you, as the teacher, will be required to enter some basic information about each of your students and their entries – student school, student name, student school state, the last four digits of the student's social security number, and the entry division, category, and a basic title - before your students can begin registration. Please be sure to alert your students once you have completed these steps so that they can begin their registration. Please note that students will have the opportunity to edit any of their personal and/or entry information once they log into their personal record.

1. From the public registration welcome page, select the appropriate contest from the list of all available contests.
• If you don't see your contest listed, registration is currently closed for that particular event. Check with your contest coordinator if you feel this is an error.
2. Choose Educator with competing students from the Registrant Type drop-down list, and click the Submit button.

Helpful Tip

If you do not remember your login information, click the link Forgot your login information under the login area and follow the instructions provided to obtain this information. Do not create a new record for yourself if you do not remember your original login! Contact your contest coordinator if you are not able to retrieve your login information on your own.

3. Log into the system.
1. If you are registering for a contest for the first time IN THE CURRENT CONTEST SEASON , select the link Don't have a username and password? Click here to begin.
2. If you have registered IN THE CURRENT CONTEST SEASON through this system for a previous contest , you will have created a username and password for yourself. Enter the same username and password on the login page to access this new contest. You can now move on to step 11.
4. You will be transferred to your Personal Information form, which requires you to provide the following information about yourself, as indicated by a red asterisk. Once you have completed the required fields, click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.
• First Name
• Last Name
• Street
• City
• State
• Zip
• Preferred Phone
• Work Phone
• Preferred Email
• How many students on your campus completed an NHD project or entry?
• Years of experience with NHD
• Are you attending the contest?
• Last Four Digits of Your Social Security Number
• Username
• Password

Helpful Tip

If you do not remember your username or your password, try checking your email, as the system will send a registration confirmation to your PREFERRED EMAIL ADDRESS with your username and password.

5. Congratulations! You have completed the first part of the registration. Now you will be redirected to a login page where you will be asked to provide your username and password to continue the registration process. Click Submit to proceed.
6. You will now be taken to your Teacher Registration Status Page. Please, take time to study the page and read the instructions. Note that each field required to complete registration has a red asterisk (*) next to it. As you proceed through each step of registration, a green checkmark will appear to the left of each of the required items, signifying completion of that particular step. Right now, Who Are You: NAME is probably the only link with this symbol.
7. If you would like to make changes to any of your personal information, such as your preferred email address or your username and password, click on the Who Are You: NAME link.



8. If another teacher is working with you, you will need to provide some information about this person by clicking on the Add A Teacher link.
9. Next, select your school by clicking on the Add a School link. You will be redirected to another form, which will allow you to select your school from a dropdown menu. Once you select the school name, you will be automatically redirected to your status page. The name of your school should now appear below the Add a School link. You can assign yourself to as many schools as needed.

Helpful Tip

You will not get a green checkmark next to a student's name until he/she has logged into their Student Registration Status Page and completes all of the student registration requirements.

10. Once you have chosen your school, you can add your students by clicking the Add a Student link. You will be asked to select the name of the school, enter your student's first and last name, and type the last four digits of the student's social security number. Click Save to return to your status page or Save and Add Another if you have more students to add.
11. Once your students are added, you may now select the Add a New Entry link to set up your entry information. You will be taken to the entry form, which will ask you to provide the following information. Once you have completed the form, you can either click Save to return to your status page or Save and Add Another if you have more entries to add.
• Name of School
• Division
• Category (paper, individual exhibit, group exhibit, etc)
• Project Title
• Student Participant(s) (You have up to five different options to select names of students since this is the maximum number of students that is allowed to participate in a group entry at the contest.)

Anytime you add a new co-teacher, school, student, and/or entry to your record, the name or title will appear as a link on your Teacher Registration Status Page. You can click on the link anytime during registration to edit the information, if needed.




12. Depending on your contest, you may be required to complete additional information as part of the registration process, such as Permission to Participate. If this is the case, then simply click on any additional links to be redirected to the corresponding forms in order to complete these additional steps.
13. Once you have completed all of the registration items, please click the Email me a confirmation of my registration button at the bottom of the status page. By doing so, a summary of your current registration, as well as the information you entered for each student account, will be sent to your PREFERRED EMAIL ADDRESS.
14. Please let your students know they can now access the registration system and complete the registration process by logging into the system as a Competing Student. It is a good idea from time to time to log into your page and see whether or not your students have actually completed the registration process. Once a student has completed all of the registration requirements via the Student Registration Status Page, a green checkmark should appear by his/her name on your Teacher Registration Status Page.
15. If your school is going to send a check or purchase order on behalf of any participating students, once your students have completed their registrations, you will need to log into your teacher account and click the green Confirm Registration and Review Fee Summary button at the bottom of your Teacher Registration Status Page.



1. Check the boxes to the left of each registration item you'll be paying for in Step 1 of the checkout process.



2. In Step 2, review the fee summary, and enter your payment information.
3. In Step 3, print out a copy of the confirmation screen (or the payment confirmation that is emailed to your PREFERRED EMAIL ADDRESS) with a summary of your fees and mail it in with your check or purchase order.
16. If your students will be covering any fees themselves, then they will also have the Confirm Registration and Review Fee Summary at the bottom of their registration status pages, enabling them to proceed through the checkout process themselves.
17. Once payment has been submitted, your registration is complete!

You can log back into your Teacher Registration Status Page at anytime to check on the progress of payments submitted or to retrieve a copy of your receipt.

1. To do so, simply click on the View your payment history link found in the red box at the top of your Teacher Registration Status Page.
2. A new window will pop open with a list of payments submitted during the registration process. The far right column indicates whether or not the contest administrator has received payment.



3. To access a receipt for a particular payment, click on the Details link in the left column, and you will see an itemized list of the fees covered by that payment.