school level fair PARTICIPATION POLICY

DETERMINING WHERE STUDENTS SHOULD EXHIBIT

Students who attend schools that offer a science fair must exhibit at that school fair. Individual students who attend schools that do not offer a science fair should follow the instructions below for independent home school students.

• Independent home or cyber school

  • • • Independent home/cyber school students must request to participate in the School Fair of the public school to which they would have been assigned according to their legal place of residence. The request should be made before October 1st. If that school does not offer a science fair, the student must contact the next closest school within the Region of the student’s legal place of residence, as measured by Google Maps shortest distance. If this second school also does not offer a science fair, contact the appropriate Regional Fair Director (see map) for further instructions. The decision of the Regional Fair Director is final. Attempts at “fair shopping” may result in disqualification.

• Recognized home or cyber school group

  • • • A recognized home/cyber group of sufficient size* may elect to request that its own school-level fair (including a properly constituted SRC/IRB), be considered for affiliation with the Regional Fair of the Region in which it exists. The request should be made before October 1st. Affiliation decisions are at the discretion of the Regional Fair Director. If the Regional Fair agrees to affiliate the new fair, students of that home/ cyber school group may advance to Regional only through that fair; no individual student from that group may try to advance to any Regional Fair by any other path -- attempts to bypass this rule may result in disqualification of the individual and revocation of the group’s affiliation.

* Contact Regional Fair Director for definition.