2015 FlYER - Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair

4th Annual Alameda County Science & Engineering Fair 2015
Location: The Alameda County Fairgrounds, Pleasanton
Fair Dates: March 20-22, 2015
Sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other major corporations ** The Alameda
County Science and Engineering Fair provides opportunity for students to start as early as 6th grade to
boost their college and scholarship acceptance by 98% and to gain skills in leadership, problem solving,
earn scholarships, pre-college recognition, awards & to move on to state, national and international
science fairs – We will help you! We can come to your school and hold a teacher, student and parent training
session to get you started!
SAVE THE DATES!
Register Online: Open Sept 2, 2014 – February 10, 2015 www.acsef.org
Mail in Application Packet post mark due dates:
-Projects using humans or human tissues, rDNA, vertebrate animals/animal tissues or Microbiology
– Dec. 2, 2014 *See website for details
-Projects that do not involve any of those listed above - February 10th, 2015
*See website for details
Who can participate?
YOU!! 6th-12th grade students attending schools in Alameda
County * including home schooled students. Two competition divisions: Middle School and High School.
What do I need to do?
Questions?
Visit the county-wide science fair website at www.acsef.org for all of the details!
Contact the ACSEF Science Fair director Patti Carothers via email at
alamedacountysef@gmail.com or phone 925-426-7879.
Fair Details:
Project set up - Friday March 20, 2015 between 2 pm - 7 pm (closing time is 7 pm)
Judging - Saturday March 21, 2015 9:30 am – 12:15 pm (Round 1) *Decides 1st-4th & Special Awards
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm (Round 2) *Decides Grand Awards
Public viewing of projects – Saturday March 21, 2015 4:00 pm - 7 pm
– Sunday March 22, 2015 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Awards Ceremony – SUNDAY March 22, 2015 1:00 pm -4:00 pm- Participants at displays 11:00 – 12:45
(*VIP reception and Project Viewing by invitation only 11:30-12:30)
Project Take Down – Sunday March 22, 2015 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
** Sponsored by: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Intel, Chevron, Workday, Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering
Fair Association, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Oracle, Lawrence Livermore National Securities, Galaxy Press, Cisco, Alameda County
Water and Wastewater Agencies, East Bay Community Foundation, PECG - Professional Engineers in California Government, Intermedia The Business Cloud, Sandia National Laboratories- Lockheed Martin, American Institute of Mathematics, Peter and Patricia Castro