diff --git a/admin/reports_students.inc.php b/admin/reports_students.inc.php
index 812c2060..6c65c957 100644
--- a/admin/reports_students.inc.php
+++ b/admin/reports_students.inc.php
@@ -157,6 +157,12 @@ $report_students_fields = array(
 		'width' => 2.75,
 		'table' => 'projects.title' ),
 
+	'shorttitle' => array(
+		'name' => 'Project -- Short Title',
+		'header' => 'Short Title',
+		'width' => 2,
+		'table' => 'projects.shorttitle' ),
+
 	'division' =>  array(
 		'name' => 'Project -- Division',
 		'header' => 'Division',
diff --git a/db/db.code.version.txt b/db/db.code.version.txt
index f906e184..c17e934b 100644
--- a/db/db.code.version.txt
+++ b/db/db.code.version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-96
+97
diff --git a/db/db.update.97.sql b/db/db.update.97.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c102ad21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/db.update.97.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+ALTER TABLE `projects` ADD `shorttitle` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL AFTER `title` ;
+
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='500' WHERE `var`='regfee_show_info';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='600',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='minage';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='700',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='maxage';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='800',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='mingrade';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='900',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='maxgrade';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1000',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='minmentorsperproject';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1100',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='maxmentorsperproject';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1200',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='minstudentsperproject';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1300',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='maxstudentsperproject';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1400',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='maxspecialawardsperproject';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1500' WHERE `var`='participant_student_personal';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2600' WHERE `var`='participant_student_pronunciation';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1700' WHERE `var`='participant_mentor';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1800',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='participant_project_summary_wordmax';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='1900',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='participant_project_summary_wordmin';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2000',`type`='number' WHERE `var`='participant_project_title_charmax';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2300' WHERE `var`='participant_project_table';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2400' WHERE `var`='participant_project_electricity';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2500' WHERE `var`='participant_student_foodreq';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2600' WHERE `var`='participant_student_tshirt';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2700' WHERE `var`='participant_student_tshirt_cost';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2800' WHERE `var`='specialawardnomination_aftersignatures';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='2900' WHERE `var`='specialawardnomination';
+UPDATE `config` SET `ord`='3000' WHERE `var`='usedivisionselector';
+
+INSERT INTO `config` ( `var` , `val` , `category` , `type` , `type_values` , `ord` , `description` , `year`) VALUES (
+'participant_short_title_charmax', '50', 'Participant Registration', 'number', '', '2200', 'The maximum number of characters acceptable in the short project title (Max 255)', '-1');
+INSERT INTO `config` ( `var` , `val` , `category` , `type` , `type_values` , `ord` , `description` , `year`) VALUES (
+'participant_short_title_enable', 'no', 'Participant Registration', 'yesno', '', '2100', 'Ask the participants for a short project title as well as their full title.', '-1');
diff --git a/register_participants.inc.php b/register_participants.inc.php
index e6fae17f..14b65267 100644
--- a/register_participants.inc.php
+++ b/register_participants.inc.php
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ function projectStatus($reg_id="")
 	global $config;
 	$required_fields=array("title","projectcategories_id","projectdivisions_id","summary","language","req_table","req_electricity","summarycountok");
 
+	if($config['participant_short_title_enable'] == 'yes') 
+		$required_fields[] = 'shorttitle';
+
 	if($reg_id) $rid=$reg_id;
 	else $rid=$_SESSION['registration_id'];
 
diff --git a/register_participants_project.php b/register_participants_project.php
index 5601356d..3e6f73f7 100644
--- a/register_participants_project.php
+++ b/register_participants_project.php
@@ -100,8 +100,19 @@ echo mysql_error();
 			else
 				$title=stripslashes($_POST['title']);
 
+			if($config['participant_short_title_enable'] == 'yes'
+			   && $config['participant_short_title_charmax'] 
+			   && strlen(stripslashes($_POST['shorttitle']))>$config['participant_short_title_charmax'])  //0 for no limit, eg 255 database field limit
+			{
+				$shorttitle=substr(stripslashes($_POST['shorttitle']),0,$config['participant_short_title_charmax']);
+				echo error(i18n("Short project title truncated to %1 characters",array($config['participant_short_title_charmax'])));
+			}
+			else
+				$shorttitle=stripslashes($_POST['shorttitle']);
+
 			mysql_query("UPDATE projects SET ".
 					"title='".mysql_escape_string($title)."', ".
+					"shorttitle='".mysql_escape_string($shorttitle)."', ".
 					"projectdivisions_id='".$_POST['projectdivisions_id']."', ".
 					"language='".mysql_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['language']))."', ".
 					"req_table='".mysql_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['req_table']))."', ".
@@ -194,6 +205,7 @@ function countwords()
 </script>
 <?
 
+
  echo "<form name=\"projectform\" method=\"post\" action=\"register_participants_project.php\">\n";
  echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"save\">\n";
  echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"id\" value=\"$projectinfo->id\">\n";
@@ -202,6 +214,12 @@ function countwords()
  if($config['participant_project_title_charmax'])
  	echo i18n("(Max %1 characters)",array($config['participant_project_title_charmax']));
  echo "</td></tr>\n";
+ if($config['participant_short_title_enable'] == 'yes') {
+ 	 echo "<tr><td>".i18n("Short Project Title").": </td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"shorttitle\" size=\"50\" value=\"".htmlspecialchars($projectinfo->shorttitle)."\" />".REQUIREDFIELD;
+	 if($config['participant_short_title_charmax'])
+ 		echo i18n("(Max %1 characters)",array($config['participant_short_title_charmax']));
+	 echo "</td></tr>\n";
+ }
  echo "<tr><td>".i18n("Age Category").": </td><td>";
 	echo i18n($agecategories[$projectcategories_id]['category']);
 	echo " (".i18n("Grades %1-%2",array($agecategories[$projectcategories_id]['mingrade'],$agecategories[$projectcategories_id]['maxgrade'])).")";