Preferred School Sign-In – November 1, 2012 but no later than December 15, 2012. (An early sign-in will facilitate better communication and enhance the overall quality of the fair.)
Deadline for Project/Paper Registration – Monday, January 7, 2013.
Physical copies of the Research Paper (three sets) will need to be mailed to our office and postmarked no later than January 7, 2013 OR sent electronically, to elizabeth.rorvig@mnsu.edu by 9:00a.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Format for electronically sent files, should be a PDF file. Research Paper registrations are still due on January 7, 2013 even if file is sent on Tuesday. (Copies of SRC/IRB Certification Forms need to be sent to our office by January 15, 2013. Students should keep originals to be brought on fair day to be signed.)
Deadline for Registration Payment – Tuesday, January 15, 2013.
Deadline for T-Shirt Orders and Payments –Tuesday, January 15, 2013.
There is $20 registration fee per person/per project or research paper.
An additional $5 will be added to each participant's fee when project registration is submitted after January 7, 2013. Any late registration will need to obtain approval from our Science Fair Office. ALL approved late registrations must be accompanied with payment. Late registrations may or may not be listed in fair booklet. No late registrations will be accepted for the research paper competition.
**ABSOLUTELY NO PROJECT REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER JANUARY 15, 2013! NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN AFTER JANUARY 15, 2013.
Preferred School Sign-In – January 1, 2013 but no later than March 1, 2013. (An early sign-in will facilitate better communication and enhance the overall quality of the fair.)
Deadline for Project Registration – Monday, March 11, 2013.
Deadline for Registration Payment – Friday, March 29, 2013. (There will be no refunds after March 29, 2013.)
Deadline for T–Shirt Orders and Payments – Friday, March 29, 2013.
There is $20 registration fee per person/per project.
Late registrations are discouraged; late registrations may or may not be listed in the fair booklet. Acceptance of late registrations, need to be approved via the Regional Science Fair Office PRIOR to the deadline of March 1, 2013 if possible. ALL approved late registration(s) must be accompanied with payment plus the late fee (total of $25 per person). If your school has conflicts with our deadlines, please call us today at 507-389-2849.
An additional $5 will be added to each participant's fee (totaling $25 per person) submitted after March 11, 2013. **NO PROJECT REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER March 29, 2013! There will be no refunds after March 29, 2013.
See www.isweeep.org and look for the 3E Sustainable Future Challenge. Deadline to register and submit slide show to them by deadline. (Feb. 24, 2012 was the date for this past year; deadline for 2013 is yet to be determined.) The top 40 middle school student projects will be chosen as Semi-finalists; the top ten will become Finalists and win the full expense paid trip to Houston to compete for Grand Prize during I-SWEEEP International Fair in May. Individual projects only.
Middle school students will be nominated from the regional level to compete in the Broadcom MASTERS at SSP-affiliated science fairs held in the 2013 school year. Nominees will enter the competition by completing an online application where they will be asked to explain their science project and to evaluate their use of STEM principles - science, technology, engineering and math - in the development and presentation of their project. Open to 6th through 8th graders. Deadline is near June 1, 2013.
From the national entrants, 300 Semifinalists will be selected along with 30 Finalists who win an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., where they will compete for awards and prizes, including the top education award of $25,000 presented by the Samueli Foundation, a gift of Susan and Henry Samueli, a founder of Broadcom Corporation.
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