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<li><p>Yes, you can, and the Siemens semifinalists announcements come out before the Intel deadline, so you can gauge how well you’ll do. Actually, that’s not true. Siemens and Intel are looking for different things. I submitted my research to both. You can even submit the same project in different years if you’ve made SIGNIFICANT changes. I would advise against this though, unless you’ve radically changed it because if you didn’t go on one year, it’s unlikely that you’ll go on in another year, and it’s not worth the hours of paperwork. But if you’ve changed it, then go ahead.</p></li>
<li><p>No, you don’t need to, but that’s normally how people win.</p></li>
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