Distribution of awards

Checks and award items will be mailed to home addresses for seniors and 8th graders. They’ll be delivered to schools for all others when shelter-in-place has ended. To help us be ready for any contingency, please notify FairManager@science-fair.org if your home address has changed since you filled out your science fair application.

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SCVSEFA will announce all 2020 Synopsys Championship winners on the web site on April 5th, including the students who qualified for CSEF, alternates for CSEF, and Broadcom MASTERS nominees.

ISEF commended the efforts of regional fairs that went online and explained their decision not to pursue a virtual fair on the ISEF FAQ page:

• “A significant percentage of our affiliate fairs were not able to hold a fair and name finalists. As an event that saw 80 countries, regions and territories represented at last year’s events, the logistical challenges of language, time zone and equity of technology suggests that any process that we could implement would not be experienced equally or justly across the audience to be judged.
• Regeneron ISEF is an experience that goes beyond the boundaries of the judging interview process. It is a cultural and scientific exchange of people and ideas and experiences across 6 days.  A virtual judging appointment is not a substitute for this experience and we feel that it would be unfair to characterize it as such.”

Even though the 2020 California Science & Engineering Fair has been cancelled, we will generate a list of qualified students because of student interest.  It will be published on our website and forwarded to CSEF to publish on theirs.  Because of the virtual fair, it is taking longer than usual for the grand prize and other special judging results to be finalized.  The algorithm used to determine the CSEF qualification list needs these results, among others. Once they are ready, we will be able to generate and publish the list.  Thank you for your patience!

Winners will be posted here when the results have been finalized. Meanwhile, congratulations to the participants and many thanks to the volunteers and sponsors who made the Virtual 2020 Synopsys Championship possible.

When you’re in your Special Awards judging session, Chime may close if it sees no activity. If you see the feedback screen, please reload the page and join your meeting again. Perhaps set a reminder to move around and make some noise. The interval is 30 minutes.

On Thursday, 3/12, from 10 to noon, you have one more chance to log in for a practice video conference session. The Chime Made Easy quick guide has Test IDs for Students and Judges. The Help Desk will open at 9: 669-212-7244.

As of 10:44 PM the emails with student links for the video conferences have all been sent out. There have already been some bouncebacks. We will give priority to any request for a re-send that arrives after 11 PM. Please check your spam folder first and then email or call with your project number and a reliable email address. The Help Desk will open at 9 AM tomorrow.

Get started with the NEW *Chime Made Easy* quick guide or get the details in Using Chime for Students and Using Chime for Judges. These are short guides to the secure collaboration service that you’ll use to practice on Wednesday, 3/11, and for judging interviews on Thursday, 3/12.

Thank you for uploading to the project folders. This morning the scheduling team could start the complicated task of assigning 15-minute interview time slots between 12:30 and 5:30 on Thursday. An example of a Project Judging schedule is available here.  Students – watch for email Wednesday afternoon!