Scientists Needed as Judges at Regional Science Fair

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The Austin Energy Regional Science Fest is a competition for students from 23 school districts and 12 counties who are advancing from their local schools.

Junior (middle school) Division and Senior (high school) Division students submit their projects in a scientific category. Judging is competitive and the top three winners in each category from both divisions advance to the state fair in San Antonio. The overall top six projects in the Senior Division, called "Best of Fair", advance directly to the international competition.
We need subject matter experts to evaluate the projects. About 7-8 projects are assigned to each group of judges (typically consisting of 3 people). After a group has interviewed their assigned students, group members discuss the merit of each project and jointly determine the ranking. Seniors are judged in the morning, Juniors in the afternoon. It is a 2-4 hour commitment, depending on the amount of students in each category. We offer orientation sessions in the weeks leading up to the fair.

Judging for next year's Junior/Senior fair will take place on Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 at the Palmer Event Center. Links to the abstracts will be made available the week-end prior to the fair.

Please register at http://www.sciencefest.org/volunteers