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Learn How to Spread the Word!  High School Alumni, come to a workshop on doing presentations at your local elementary schools. We need to start the youngsters off right, and you can help to make that happen. Santa Clara County Office of Education, Oct 15, 7-8 PM. At the training you will do an experiment you can do as a demonstration, get an experiment kit, take home activities for families, and posters for the teachers. RSVP with Heidi Black blackh@esuhsd.org

Congratulations to our outstanding Santa Clara County students! More than 100 Synopsys Championship participants made the trip to Los Angeles to compete at the California State Science & Engineering Fair on April 29-30.  Winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 30th and are posted on the CSEF web site.  SCVSEFA has a summary page of all the winning participants from the Synopsys Championship. Thank you to all who participated and to the volunteers, parents and teachers who helped our students present their fine work.

If you are a high school student representing the Synopsys Championship at the California Science and Engineering Fair this year, you have the opportunity to win a trip to Intel ISEF.  In order to be eligible you will need to submit the Intel ISEF forms you filled out for the Synopsys Championship – but you need to submit the forms that have been signed by SCVSEFA’s SRC personnel.

Dr. Burrell will have your signed forms at the Awards Ceremony and she will be available after 2:45 to distribute this paperwork. The forms will be filed by project number, so please make sure you bring your project number with you.

The 2019 Synopsys Championship Awards Ceremony is set for the afternoon of April 7th at the Heritage Theater in Campbell.  See the Winner Summary page for a list of students who will be invited to the ceremony. 

The Awards Ceremony is an ‘Invitation Only’ event for each student plus 2 guests. Middle school students should arrive at 12:40 PM. High school students should arrive at 3:10 PM.

If any students have changed their email addresses since applying to the 2019 fair, they should notify fairmanager@science-fair.org at once.

Judge Feedback Forms for students are already in the mail to their teachers. Thanks to our volunteers for quickly sorting through all those forms.

Congratulations to all the students (more than 1100!) who participated in the 2019 Synopsys Championship. A special Thank you to our sponsors and great volunteers for making the event successful. Stay tuned for the winners listing.

Volunteers are especially needed on Day One to help students get their projects checked in and ready for judging. Parents of students who are competing are very welcome to volunteer for any time slot on Day One. Please sign up on the Volunteers web page!

We’ll close the database at midnight on Thursday, Feb. 28. All the information about your project will be locked and no further changes can be made. So please run through a final check as soon as possible:

• Before Feb. 28, send any missing paperwork and procedure(s) to the person who requested it. Include your project number in the subject line of any message.
• Check the status of your project (Project Status button on the home page). After Feb. 28 any Incomplete project will move to FTQ (Fail to Qualify).
• Check that the title and student names are spelled correctly.
• Is the grade correct (first 2 digits of your project number)?
• Is the Field of Study accurate? This is your last chance to request a change.

On Feb 29 we’ll start printing documents, badges etc. for about 850 projects and 1100 students, which is why there can be no more changes to the database information.

Take action if your Project Status is still Incomplete. You can’t participate if your project isn’t officially accepted, and we are waiting to wrap up about 40 projects now!

You should have received an email listing items that are missing 
or need more work. Address those items and answer any questions as soon possible: 

• Reply to whoever sent the message; that person has your paperwork.
• Include your project number in the subject line (so we don’t have 
  to look it up).
• Address all the details in the email you received.
• Include ALL the missing items.

Wait 2 days and see if your Project Status changes to Accepted. If it doesn’t change, please re-send your message. (We’d rather get two messages than miss one!)

Thank you – SRC

Synopsys Championship volunteers will take a holiday break until January 2. The SRC reviewers are nearly finished with the backlog and soon we’ll start checking in the applications received after Dec. 1. (Thank you for your patience!)

• New projects will appear as “received” at Check Project Status  until reviews start again on January 9.
• If your project status is “received” or “pending” and the application was received by Nov. 28, it is waiting to be reviewed. A project that requires SRC pre-approval may not start until it is approved.
• If your project status is “received” and the application was received after Nov. 28, it will be handled as time permits. 
• If your project status is “incomplete,” you and your teacher/sponsor have probably received email outlining what is missing or incorrect. Please respond to the message, and we will handle your response as time permits between now and January 2.

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your patience as the Scientific Review Committee makes its way through more than 300 applications for review at the last deadline. It will take the SRC a while to review this number of projects, enter results into the database and then send messages if incomplete. Please be patient. Also watch your email for questions from the SRC reviewer about any Incomplete applications.

As of today (12/2), if your application is not listed as Received on the project status page, and you are sure that we would have had the project in hand by 11/28 for data entry and review, please send a message to fairmanager@science-fair.org.  Postmarked by 11/28 would not have reached us in time.

Projects received after the deadline will be handled in the order they are received.