LACSEF news

NEW this year! Six Interactive Webinars by topic for download. These take the place of our Virtual Workshops. You can watch them any time! Click to view, read, print!

#1 – Choos­ing a Topic

#2 – Design­ing Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing Research Projects

#3 – Project Approval Overview

#4 – In-Per­son & Vir­tu­al Displays

#5 – Final Project Reg­is­tra­tion & the Judg­ing Process

#6 – Attend­ing the Fair, Awards Ceremony

You asked for it–we’ve made it happen!


We have been honored with one of the first Top-Rated Awards of 2024 from GreatNonprofits! We appreciate all of your contributions! 

https://shorturl.at/8sHPV

 

We are pleased to announce that the 75th Annual Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair will be held at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall, March 9 — 10, 2025!

NEW THIS YEAR!!

Please be aware that there are changes to the stu­dent and project reg­is­tra­tion pro­ce­dures and the SRC sub­mis­sion and pre-approval process:

  • All projects need to have an Intent to Par­tic­i­pate Google Form sub­mit­ted. This form will help stu­dents deter­mine if a project requires Pre-Approval.
  • Pre-Approval cat­e­gories have changed — now aligned with ISEF.
    • Microbes and Tis­sue-Cell Lines have been com­bined as Poten­tial­ly Haz­ardous Bio­log­i­cal Agents — PHBA
    • Ver­te­brate form will now include high­er func­tion­ing invertebrates
  • The 4 cat­e­gories that will need pre-approval are as follows:
    • Human Par­tic­i­pants
    • Ver­te­brate and High­er Func­tion­ing Inver­te­brate Animals
    • Poten­tial­ly Haz­ardous Bio­log­i­cal Agents — PHBA
    • Haz­ardous Chem­i­cals, Activ­i­ties, and Devices — HCAD
  • The updat­ed LACSEF Rules and Reg­u­la­tions can be found here

Please be aware that there are changes to the stu­dent and project reg­is­tra­tion pro­ce­dures and the SRC sub­mis­sion and pre-approval process.

Please refer to the Impor­tant Dates and Dead­lines doc­u­ment for a list­ing of impor­tant dates.

Google Form Intent to Participate:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrkrgSMXNyu5NA5RKgYI5_E0jAvxijNITs19tyXG2kvCKeKg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Rules and Regulations: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sozEwa7zBoOvGxMZnW74qKfJIgV1dq2ZcheuEIDnCtA/edit?usp=sharing

Con­grat­u­la­tions to every­one who helped make the 2024 Sci­ence Fair one of the most suc­cess­ful in many years! A com­plete list of all of our Cat­e­go­ry Award recip­i­ents is avail­able here; the list of our Spe­cial Award recip­i­ents here or from the 2024 Results menu at the top of the page!

Calling all Science Fair volunteers!

It is the pol­i­cy of the Los Ange­les Coun­ty Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Fair that each par­tic­i­pat­ing school must pro­vide adult vol­un­teers (18 years or old­er) to work for a min­i­mum of two & a half hours (prefer­ably more) dur­ing the course of the Sci­ence Fair. Vol­un­teers are not restrict­ed to only teach­ers or par­ents. Vol­un­teers can also be fam­i­ly mem­bers, busi­ness asso­ciates, neigh­bors or friends.

The required num­ber of adult vol­un­teers is deter­mined by the num­ber of stu­dent entries from your par­tic­u­lar school. The break­down is as follows:

1 to 6 Projects = 1 Vol­un­teers 7 to 13 Projects = 2 Volunteers

Please vis­it our Vol­un­teer page here and fol­low the direc­tions that pro­vide step-by-step instruc­tions for the online vol­un­teer reg­is­tra­tion process. After you reg­is­ter, you will receive your pass­word in email. When you go online to vol­un­teer, you can select the date, time block, and par­tic­u­lar task you are com­fort­able vol­un­teer­ing for. Vol­un­teer Online Reg­is­tra­tion can be accessed at:

http://app.lascifair.org/

Please make sure to select a date, time and task oth­er­wise your school will not get cred­it for your vol­un­teer­ing as your reg­is­tra­tion will be incom­plete. You will receive an email con­fir­ma­tion of your selection(s), as well as a pass­word that can be used along with your email to log back into the online reg­is­tra­tion sys­tem to make any revi­sions. Please be aware that should the num­ber of vol­un­teers exceed a par­tic­u­lar task require­ment, it may be nec­es­sary for the Vol­un­teer Coor­di­na­tor to adjust assign­ments. If you vol­un­teer to help at the Awards Pro­gram, 2 seats will be saved for you and you may return to your seat while your stu­dent is on stage.

Vol­un­teers will receive final con­fir­ma­tion and any addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion via email the week pri­or to the Sci­ence Fair, sched­uled for March 9–10, 2025, at the Shrine Audi­to­ri­um and Expo Cen­ter. Please note that at this time the Sci­ence Fair will not val­i­date park­ing for vol­un­teers. Park­ing infor­ma­tion will be sent out with the final email con­fir­ma­tion pri­or to the Fair.

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We are a 501(c)(3) all-vol­un­teer orga­ni­za­tion and must rely on dona­tions to be able to hold our annu­al event. Please con­sid­er donat­ing to ensure that our Fair continues.