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- Important Dates for SARSEF! Set-up, Judging, Awards and More!
- March 12 FREE from Cox Communications: SARSEF Future Innovators Night!
- Next Generation Science Standards NSTA Virtual Conference Saturday, March 8, 2014
- Gr 6-12 STEM Teacher Summer Opportunity
- MANY opportunities for Arizona Students and Teachers: ASTA News
Welcome to SARSEF
Welcome to the 2014 Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Fair!
Discover new renewable energy sources …lifesaving medical questions … advanced computer technology … or how to save an endangered species!
Calling all JUDGES! Please contact us at director@sarsef.org if you can help on March 11th!
This year’s fair will be held March 10-14, 2014, at the Tucson Convention Center. Visitors are welcome on Public Viewing Days March 12, 13, 14 from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Our event is FREE and no reservations are required.
BEST day to visit? March 12th, from 5:30PM to 8:00 PM! Cox Communication and SARSEF host Future Innovators Night. Come enjoy over 40 interactive science and engineering demonstrations provided by organizations from all around Southern Arizona’s science and engineering community. Meet the Mayor and march with Stormtroopers!
Have a project that was selected for SARSEF? Fast Check-in forms for Project Registration are available now. Please ask the person who registered your child’s project to log back in and go to their Project Registrations to access them and print one for you if you will be the one bringing the project for set-up Monday. If cannot reach that person, don’t worry, just come on down anyways! It will only take an extra minute or two. Projects should be taken to the Tucson Convention Center on March 10, from noon until 8:00 PM.
Please read the SARSEF sections under the Student icons above or the FAQ section to find out more and then if you still have questions, please contact us.
Students: You will find information about conducting innovative research, competition guidelines that will get your hard work recognized, and ideas to help you get started.
Teachers and Fair Directors: You are a crucial part of the process of research. You will find out how you can help students design effective protocols to test their scientific theories. You can help them create fun displays and presentations to share their findings with the world. And you can find out how to prepare for and enter the upcoming competition by requesting our free educational outreach!
Science supporters: You are the donors, volunteers and judges who are a critical part of creating our future by encouraging our students. Enter here to become one of the over 400 award-winning scientists and engineers that take time out of their busy lives to become judges and volunteer at SARSEF each year. You can be one of the ones who help thousands of budding SciEnce, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) students reach their dreams and improve all of our lives. Enter this site to continue your support, or to make a new contribution to our future!
About SARSEF
Created in 1955, SARSEF began as a modest event involving 100 science projects, and grew into a competition for the southern half of Arizona that attracts members of the public, talented engineers and scientists, and members of the news media. Each year, it brings together educators, academic researchers, technology companies, parents and student scientists for a five-day celebration of science and scientific discovery.
Last year, some 75,000 students in Southern Arizona — from kindergarten to high school – designed projects for their local science fairs. Only the best of those projects were selected to advance to regional competition at the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Fair.
SARSEF 2013 showcased 1,800 of those top-level research projects, and awarded more than 700 prizes to winners — including cash, science equipment, college scholarships or all-expense-paid trips to international student science fairs.
Over the years, science fair winners have gone on to compete at national and international science-and-engineering events, and have become expert critical thinkers, talented scholars and world-class scientists themselves.