The Austin Energy Regional Science Festival is one of Texas’ largest regional science fairs with over 2,000 students from 3rd through 12th grade. It encourages and rewards innovative student research and provides scientists, engineers and other professionals a chance to volunteer in the community.
Winning Junior/Senior Division projects advance to the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair. Best of Fair Senior Division projects advance directly to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Two high school and two middle school projects focusing on applied engineering, sustainable energy, or environmental engineering advance to the I-SWEEEP International Olympiad.
The Austin Energy Regional Science Festival is an Intel ISEF-affiliated science competition that is held at the Palmer Events Center during February of every year.
Who Can Participate?
The Austin Energy Regional Science Festival serves students from Central Texas whose projects won at their schools’ science fairs. This includes Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Fayette, Lee, Travis, Washington, Williamson, and northern Hays counties.
Science Festival also serves charter, private and home-schooled students from these counties.
Homeschooled students and students from schools with no science fair must submit a Request to Participate.
If your child’s school has no science fair, talk with a science teacher about organizing one.
See the website for full details.
The Austin Energy Regional Science Festival is being held February 23-25th, 2012 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas.
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