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Welcome to the
Sacramento Regional
Science & Engineering Fair Website
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WHAT'S
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ABOUT US
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Our mission is to
maintain a continuous process that encourages and rewards professional
excellence, promotes educational enrichment, and provides unique
opportunities for independent achievement in science and technology for
the thousands of sixth through twelfth grade students of all private,
parochial, and public schools of the Sacramento Valley wishing to
participate.
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Our organization is
staffed by a team of dedicated individuals who work to plan, organize,
and produce the Fair every spring.
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We are an independent
community service organization, without funding or direction by state or
local government, or by any of the school systems whose students we
serve. Thus, we do not spend tax dollars, nor is our work encumbered by
external administrative policy changes.
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Our budget this year
is $100,000. We are dependent on private and corporate year-to-year
donations of money, goods, and services. Although we have received major
corporate funding from several sources in the past, we have no assurance
of adequate future funding commitments.
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We are a registered
tax-exempt, non-profit community service (501[C] 3) corporation.
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Our activities
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Training teachers
and screeners in the procedures, standards, and regulations for
Science & Engineering Fair projects. |
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Advising teachers
and participating students, and assisting them in obtaining
professional resources. |
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Maintaining a
legion of qualified volunteer judges from the professional and
technical community to evaluate projects in competition for awards and
recognition at the fair. |
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Preparing,
publishing, printing, and distributing information and registration
packets to hundreds of students; printing programs for the public, and
advertising the Fair's schedule. |
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Recruiting and
organizing special award judging by professional, technical,
institutional, and military organizations. |
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Conducting the
competition and exhibition, which includes: designing exhibition
layout space by numbers of projects per category, coordinating use of
buildings at Rosemont High School, registering and orienting participants,
providing lunches and tours for participating students, providing
refreshments for judges, conducting judging, providing for and
safe-guarding public display of projects, and implementing
setup/teardown of displays and furnishings. |
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Ordering and
purchasing ribbons and awards, and planning and producing the
presentation of awards for regional fair winners. |
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Overseeing and
facilitating advancement of first-place and sweepstakes winners to
further levels (international) of science fair competitions.
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GOALS AND OVERVIEW
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To motivate students
to apply creativity and critical thought to the solution of scientific,
engineering and mathematical problems.
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To encourage the exchange of knowledge, ideas and career
information.
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To recognize student achievement and foster
school-community cooperation.
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Our Sponsors:
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