Registration Fees

The summary of the bill may be available upon request, otherwise, a list of registered projects will be sent out via email as soon as possible following registration deadline. Exception is for the elementary division because of any hard copy project registrations which has taken up to a couple of weeks to enter. After each project registration, the SF coordinator should receive an email via the email address submitted on school signup. Review and if there is anything wrong, contact our office to make corrections or reenter the project information and let our office know to delete the one with "specific incorrect information". Contact the science.fair@mnsu.edu for any needed information. Payment not received by payment deadline may result in an additional $5 per person or $25. Fees not sent in by the assigned date (see important dates & deadlines) may result in a deletion of the student's registration. Schools are encouraged to either pay online or pay the registrations with one check and collect the fees from the students. Some schools or school organizations do choose to cover half or all of the fees for their students while some schools do not help with the fee. The registration fees have are $20 per person/per event which help cover some of the operating costs of the fair.

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Middle School/Senior High School Registration Fees

The registration fee for the research paper competition is $20. Registration for the project competition is also $20 per student. If a student chooses to register for both the research paper and project competition, there will be a $20 registration fee for each competition or $40 total. If there are additional team members, each member needs to pay the $20 fee for each competition. Online registrations will only be available up to 11:59 p.m. on the registration deadline date. Payments need to be received by Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (or postmarked with the same date). A late fee of $5 will be charged per person for each late project registration. No late research paper registrations will be accepted. Late (but approved by our office) project registrations turned in after the deadline date may or may not be listed in the program. No project registrations will be accepted after January 15, 2013. All fees will need to be paid prior to fair date. There will be no refund of fees after January 15, 2013. Call the SC/SW MN Regional Science & Engineering Office at 507-389-2849 with any conflicts.

Elementary School Division – Registrations Fees

Elementary School Division registrations are due on Monday, March 11, 2013.

Payments for registrations are due Friday, March 29, 2013. The registration fee for project competition is $20 per student. If there are additional team members, each member needs to pay the $20 fee. Late registrations are discouraged. Approval of any late project registrations is needed by the Science Fair Office PRIOR to registration deadline. Late registrations may or may not be listed in the fair booklet. No project registrations will be accepted after Friday, March 29, 2013. There will be no refunds after March 29, 2013. Call the SC/SW MN Regional Science & Engineering Office at 507-389-2849 with any conflicts.

Coordinator/Educator Notes:

1. If a school is participating, then all registrations need to go through the educator or the Science Fair Coordinator. GO GREEN AND SAVE! We recommend all registrations to be submitted online. All online registrations cannot be submitted with any missing information, other than email address. Any information not submitted on the hard copy of the registration form, may cause problems. Remind all students to print out registration form prior to submission. Once a project or research paper registration has been submitted, the SF Coordinator will receive an email with all the information he/she submitted. It is best to review the registration then than to wait to receive the total school participant list later. Once the school's science fair coordinator receives the registration lists from the regional office, all information needs to be checked and reviewed as promptly as possible. Adult educators need to refer back to their original files to ensure all exhibitors are included. In the past, incorrect categories or grade levels have been entered (by school, regional office or other individuals) which caused a lot of confusion and problems for the participant on fair day. In the past, we had a couple of schools who didn't notice the omission of registrations. At our office, we will be very careful in entering the information, but schools/educators also need to be very careful in reviewing the student registration and let our office know of any changes, deletions or additions. It may work great if once a registration is submitted, and the confirming email arrives, to either print out the confirmation or have the student look at the information online in order to check for accuracy. We do need the student's address, as they may be a recipient of an special award or certificate. If student addresses are not given, then it will be our understanding that schools will give or send out whatever certificates or awards that is due a student. Other than to the University's Admissions Department and the University's Business Office, we will not pass on any personal information.
2. If you have any trouble or questions, need verification of registrants, or changes on any registration, please email the science.fair@mnsu.edu and we will get back to as soon as we can. If ever in doubt, email us or call us early in the process rather than waiting until deadline!

Checks should be made out to:

SC/SW MN RSEF
Or
SC/SW MN Regional Science & Engineering Fair

Mailing Address:
SC/SW MN Regional Science & Engineering Fair
TS242
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001

Online Registration (Credit Card) Payments: Preferred method of of payment is the online process. Individuals or schools may pay (by credit card) online. See the instructions on the previous web page. Link is provided below the Online T-Shirt info.

 

Online T–Shirt Orders and Credit Card Payments: Preferred method of ordering and payment is the online process. Individuals or schools may order and pay (by credit card) online. Payment must accompany orders.

 

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School Checks: write in "memo" area school name and number of registrations. To avoid confusion, it is appreciated that a list of your school's regional fair participants (include grade, category, correct spelling of name(s) and title of project) sent to our office. Any discrepancies will be handled as soon as possible by the regional office.

T–Shirt Checks: write in "memo" area, student's name. Include downloadable T–Shirt order form (available in PDF format). Please be sure to fill out all the necessary information including number of desired t-shirt along with sizes and send to the regional office listed above. The fee for a T-Shirt is $13 up to the ordering deadline. Orders do not have to go through your school and may directly be sent to the regional office by individual families. Payment must be sent in with shirt pre-orders. No late orders will be accepted. A limited number of shirts will be available on fair day at the cost of $15.