2025 Northeast Regional Science Fair

Date and time

Friday, March 28, 2025, starting at 7:45 a.m.
 

Location

The competition takes place in Rice Auditorium on the northwest corner of the Wayne State College campus. You may unload/load on the south side of the auditorium, but general parking will be in Lots 1, 1.1, or 1.2.

• Some student activities will also take place in the Carhart Science Building
• The auditorium itself should not be considered secure. Valuables should either be left home or kept on one’s person

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General forms and rules

New forms and links can be found on the Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences website
 

Registration on arrival

Registration is from 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. at the Rice Auditorium on campus. The following is needed:

• Forms: There are multiple forms that need to be filled out and turned in at registration. See NJAS site for these documents.
• Research papers: Students should bring two copies of their research paper to the competition: one for themselves and one for the judges and to be kept on file at WSC.
• Fees: Fees are due. See below.
• Setup: Each junior entry will have half of a table available (a skinny half). The senior entries will likely have a full table. Setup should be completed before 8:45 a.m.
   

Fees

The fees are due at registration.

• Entry fee: The entry fee is $6.50 per student (not per project). If paid for by check, the check should be made out to WSC – NJAS.
• Lunch fee: Important change! If desired students may eat lunch at the student cafeteria. Lunch is $9.60 per person. If paid for by check, please make it out to the same account WSC – NJAS. If desired, it can be the same check and we will appropriately separate things later.

In addition to your science project, please bring the following items:

1. Registration forms: there are multiple forms that need to be completed and turned in at registration. These can be completed in advance and are available on the NJAS website.
2. Research papers: Students should bring two copies of their research paper to the competition - one for themselves, and one for the judges to be kept on file.
3. Lunch (or lunch money): Students may bring their own lunch, or they may eat in the WSC cafeteria for $9.60.

Note: Valuables should either be left home or kept on one’s person.

• 7:45-8:45 a.m. - Check-in and display setup (Rice Auditorium)
• 8:45-9 a.m. - Welcome
• 9-9:50 a.m. - Judging (Red team); Quiz Bowl (Green team); Planetarium (Blue team)
• 10-10:50 a.m. - Planetarium (Red team); Judging (Green team); Quiz Bowl (Blue team)
• 11-11:50 a.m. - Quiz Bowl (Red team), Planetarium (Green team); Judging (Blue team)
• 12-1:15 p.m. - Teardown / Lunch. Students need to tear down their project before they go to lunch.
• 1:15-2 p.m. - Science demonstration (Gardner Hall)
• 2:15-3 p.m. - Award Ceremony (Gardner Hall)

Note: Quiz Bowl is in Carhart Science, Room G04.

The Northeast Region has consistently produced a high number of quality science fair projects that have enriched the academic life of the students doing them. Your contribution as a judge will further that academic enrichment and as such your role is very important. Please consider the following guidelines to help this year's participating students have a great experience at the regional!

Roles of the Judge

• Evaluator - The main role of the judge is to evaluate projects and assign them a score. It is important that the evaluation provide constructive feedback. It is not useful to assign perfect scores to everything. One of the roles of the judge is to help determine which projects should go on to the state competition.
   
• Motivator - The students should come away from the science fair encouraged by their participation with the science fair. The should feel that their project was assessed fairly and that they got valuable feedback on what they did well and on how to improve. The judge isn’t there to criticize but to encourage.

If you have any questions, Dr. Stromer will be available via text or email.

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