Junior Fair (Grades 6 – 8)
Schedule and Deadlines
Separate fair events for Junior / Senior and Elementary *New for 2024
- Junior / Senior Fair will be at UM-Flint – March 15 – 17
- Elementary Fair will be at the Sloan Museum of Discovery – April 11
Judging Format
- Preliminary Round: Projects will be scored by judges based on students’ online submitted materials.
- Final Round: Judging interviews
- All students (finalist and non-finalist) will have interviews at their project display board.
- Non-Finalists: 1-2 interviews at your display board
- Finalists: Interviews with judges (3-4) at your display boards.
- Be prepared to be at your display for multiple hours.
- Students can bring hands-on models or prototypes.
- All students (finalist and non-finalist) will have interviews at their project display board.
Materials for Judging
Templates for all can be found on the Templates webpage and the registration site
- With Registration / Before Start of Experimentation (submitted via the online registration portal)
- Research Plan
- Information on this is available when you register and add a project.
- SRC Forms
- FRSEF E-Z Forms
- Special Awards Nomination (part of registration portal)
- Research Plan
- By March 1 at 11:59 PM EST (submitted via the online registration portal)
- Display Slides
- Template does not have to be followed, provided as a starting point.
- Only pdf files are accepted.
- Maximum of 12 slides
- Display Slides
- Bring to Fair
- Display Board
- Can be display slides printed and placed on a tri-fold
- Display Board Guidelines
- Logbook / Research Notebook (optional)
- Research Report (optional)
- All SRC forms
- Display Board
Resources
- FRSEF Student’s Page – many resources, guides and tips on doing a project
- FRSEF Rules
- ISEF Science at Home Resource Page