Science fair project materials for teachers

Sign up at https://outreach-foundation.org/teachers/ to receive notices about applying to receive a Science Project Package of STEM items. All items are free of cost and available to teachers at nonprofit organizations, K-12 public schools, school districts, dependent charter schools, independent charter schools with 501(c)(3) public charity status and private non-profit schools with 501(c)(3) public charity status.

The Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023 application is open now until November 8th. In addition to the Intel ISEF and the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge programs, the Society for Science & the Public also owns and produces the Regeneron STS, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious competition for high school seniors.

ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, returned this year with 1600 finalists participating in-person with the sponsorship of Regeneron. Finalists represented 49 states and 63 countries.  Congratulations to all the participants from the Synopsys Championship and to the award winners announced on May 18 (special awards) and May 19 (scientific category awards). ISEF winners from the Championship are listed here.

Special congratulations to Kaitlyn Wang for her ISEF top award, the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, as the finalist who was selected on the basis of outstanding and innovative research, as well as on the potential impact of the work — in the field and on the world at large. Her project in Physics and Astronomy/Astronomy and Cosmology is Discovery of the Smallest Ever Ultra-Short-Period Planet Using Novel Phase Folding Detection System Parallelized on a Cheap GPU.

Open enrollment has begun for the Society’s Science News in High Schools program for the 2023-2024 school year! A free resource for any public school. Enroll your school in Science News

Regeneron and other sponsors are generously funding the participation of nearly 6,000 public high and middle schools in The Society’s Science News Learning program during the 2023 – 2024 school year. Fill out and submit this form to express interest in signing up your school.

Congratulations to our outstanding Santa Clara County students! 130 Synopsys Championship participants qualified to compete virtually at the California State Science & Engineering Fair on April 11th.  Winners were announced online and are posted on the CSEF web site.  SCVSEFA has a summary page of all 71 winning participants from the Synopsys Championship.

Special congratulations to Sharanya Chudgar who was awarded Project of the Year in the Junior Division!

The awards that were not collected at the March 26th Awards Ceremony will be delivered to your school over the next 2 weeks. We are aware that many schools will be on Spring Break so we will be sure to deliver before or after your break.

A few judges had substantive comments that they wished to share with students after the fair, and these comments have been emailed to the students. Don’t be surprised if you did not receive comments, as most students will not receive comments.

Unfortunately, we cannot answer questions about the judge’s comments if you did receive them.

Congratulations to Sally Zhu, who participated in the 2022 & 2023 Synopsys Championship and Ryan Lee and Vivian Wu, who participated in the 2022 Synopsys Championship. Forty finalists, including nine students from California, participated in the finals week competition of Regeneron STS March 8 – 15, 2023. Regeneron STS is the nation’s oldest science and mathematics competition for high school seniors. The competition was in-person this year, culminating in a public Exhibition of projects on March 12th and a formal awards ceremony on March 14th.

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the 2023 Synopsys Championship. A special Thank you to our sponsors, teachers and our great volunteers for making the event successful. Stay tuned for the winners listing.

UPDATE –  Printed copies of Forms 1, 1A, 2, 3, 5A, 5B and Research Plan are no longer required at Check-In on March 8th. If you have already printed your application, bring everything and SRC will sign the forms where required.

Forms that are required:

• Project Abstract (1 copy)
• Compliance-Checklist
• Project Notebook (optional for Middle School); hard copy, printed, or digital.
• Form 1C Regulated Research Institutional / Industrial Setting Form (if your project requires it)
• Form 7 Continuation Projects Form (if your project requires it)
• Form 4 Human Participants Form from your application (if your project requires it)
• Signed Human Informed Consent Forms (if your project requires them) (Fair Check-In Day ONLY)
• Signed Ethics Statement
• Form 1B from your application
• Forms 6A and 6B from your application if your project requires it