Awards
Science Fair Sponsors
Awards
View ribbon placements and special awards from this year's Fair by clicking the Academy Awards icon (left).
Congratulations to this year's rising next generation of science and STEM leaders and advocates! Well done!
Close to $40,000 in awards, ribbons and scholarships are presented to students with top projects!
- Scholarship dollars and any Special Awards are mailed via U.S. Postal Service to the address the student or teacher used to register the project.
- Ribbon Placement Certificates are emailed to each student using the email address the student or teacher used to register the project.
1st Place Blue —Bravo!
2nd Place Red —Remarkable!
3rd Place Green —Genius!
According to a study released by the Institute for Higher Education Policy & Prosperity Now, children with a college savings between $1 and $499 are THREE TIMES as likely to attend college and FOUR times as likely to graduate as those without any college savings!
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Special Award Sponsors
Technology and Engineering projects sponsored by:
Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award
Presented by Broadcom Foundation
Eligibility: 5th-8th Grade
Award: Public recognition at Broadcom Foundation sponsored competitions and showcases with the receipt of a formal certificate from the Broadcom Foundation, $250 Gift Certificate, Raspberry Pi Foundation Official RP 400 Personal Computer Kit
Description: This award is available to students in grades 5-8 where they combine STEM Knowledge with Coding in the project's research, design, or development in a project that expresses Passion for helping or improving one's community.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC)
A program of Society for Science
Eligibility: 6th-8th Grade
Award: Students who are nominated have the honor of continuing their science fair journey by applying to compete in the Thermo Fisher JIC (formerly known as the Broadcom MASTERS).
Description: The top 10% of students in 6th-8th grade will be nominated to enter the national competition. Nominees will complete an online application, the top 300 will be named and the 30 finalists will participate in a finals week competition in Washington, DC in October. There is no cost to the student at any step of the competition.
Additional Special Awards!
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics of St. Louis
Air & Waste Management Association - Greater St. Louis Section
American Association of University Women Ballwin-Chesterfield Branch
American Industrial Hygiene Association - St. Louis Section
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics - St. Louis Section
American Institute of Chemical Engineers - St. Louis Section
American Meteorological Society
American Psychological Association for Achievement in Research in Psychological Science
Awarded by the American Psychological Association
Eligibility: 9th-12th Grade
Award: 1 Certificate and 1-year Complimentary Student Membership
Description: Awarded to a project with outstanding research in psychological science under the category of behavioral and social sciences or any category related to psychology (e.g., animal sciences, biomedical and health sciences, translational medical science).
American Society of Civil Engineers - St. Louis Section
American Society for Nondestructive Testing - St. Louis
American Statistical Association - St. Louis Chapter
ASM Materials Education Foundation
Association for Women Geoscientists
Challenger Learning Center - St. Louis
East Central District Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri
Greater St. Louis Dental Society
Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
Presented by the Society of Science
Eligibility: 6th-8th Grade
Award: $100 e-gift card and certificate
Description: This award will provide a $100 award and a certificate to a young inventor creating a tangible invention that represents a promising solution to a real-world problem. Tangible inventions can be devices, or they can take the form of novel methods or processes (for example, inventing a novel carbon sequestration process, creating a novel biomarker to detect disease).
Missouri 529 College Savings Plan
Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair
Skeptical Society of St. Louis
Society of American Military Engineers - St. Louis Post
Society of Fire Protection Engineers - Greater St. Louis Chapter
St. Louis Mineral and Gem Society
St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society
Saint Louis University - Parks College of Engineering and Aviation
Washington University School of Medicine American Medical Women's Association
Yale Science and Engineering Association
