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School Registration and Deadlines

School Coordinator Dashboard

Student Project Registration and Deadlines

Project Upload and Deadlines

Project Judging Dates and Rubrics

Awards

Make sure you review the Rules & Safety Requirements , FAQs , and How-to Instructions for 2025!

TEACHERS NEED TO REVIEW THE RESEARCH PLAN FOR EACH STUDENT AND SEND THEM AN E-MAIL APPROVAL.

SAFETY FORM
ALL projects need a signed safety form. (It's worth 10 points!) Click Here for 2025 Safety Form!

STUDENTS WILL SCAN AND UPLOAD SIGNED SAFETY FORMS WHEN UPLOADING PROJECT FILES.

Each school that uploads projects to The Academy of Science - St. Louis Science Fair must register their school. One teacher should represent your school and complete the online SCHOOL and TEACHER registrations.

1. Honors Division School Registration Deadline:
   noon, Mon Jan 27, 2025
2. K-12 Division School Registration Deadline:
   extended thru midnight, Fri, Mar 7, 2025
3. When you register your school, you request a certain number of spots. Most schools request 5 - 25 depending on the size of their school. We are generally able to honor all requests; however, there is a limited total number of projects the Fair can handle.
4. Teacher Account Registration How-to Instructions
5. School Registration How-to Instructions

Click Here for online school registration.

If you are the Science Coordinator of your school district and you need to register multiple schools and do not want to register each school individually, you may register one school and then email the Science Fair Director at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with:

1. Your requested number of spaces for the district
2. Any school changes in the past year

Registering this way is not required, but will save you some time and assign the same student registration password to each school in your district.

Each project must be registered in order to participate in the Honors Division or K-12 Fair.

• Honors Division Project Registration Deadline:
  noon, Fri, Jan 31, 2025
• K-12 Division Project Registration Deadline:
  noon, Mon, Apr 14, 2025 (at the latest | This is also the deadline for uploading student Project files.)

NOTE for TEACHERS:

So that K-12 Division students are not registering projects the day of the Project Upload Deadline, also Mon, Apr 14, teachers should identify the students who will submit projects to The Academy of Science - St. Louis Science Fair BEFORE MARCH 14, 2025. In other words, hold your school fair BEFORE March 14, 2025.

NUMBER OF STUDENTS ALLOWED ON A PROJECT:

• Students may work individually, or in a team of two.
• For Grades K-4 ONLY, teachers may submit a class project.

ONE PROJECT FOR EACH STUDENT:
Students may not submit more than one project.

SCHOOL PASSWORD: 
Each school that registers for The Academy of Science -  St. Louis K-12 Science Fair will receive the number of projects they are allowed to upload and a school password to be used by their students when they register their projects. Your School Pasword is available on the School Coordinator Dashboard after you register your school.

STUDENT SEQUENCE NUMBER: 
After a student registers their project, they receive a unique sequence number. Students should write this number down and save it— they will need it when they upload their project. After students register their projects, sequence numbers can also be found in the School Coordinator Dashboard.

STUDENT ADDRESS: 
Have students use personal (parent/s or guardian/s) home e-mail and snail mail addresses if possible when registering. This makes it easier for teachers! Student e-Ribbon certificates are emailed to the email address used when the student registers their project. Any scholarship awards are sent via U.S. mail to the U.S. Postal address that is used when the student registers. If the teacher's email address is used, then e-Ribbon certificates are mailed to the teacher. If the school, or teacher address is used when the student registers, any scholarship awards are mailed to the teacher; and the teacher becomes responsible for emailing, mailing, or otherwise conveying awards and e-Ribbon certificates to the student/s.

NO photos of faces, nor names of schools or students are allowed on projects or logbooks.

Students upload 1) project presentation, 2) logbook, 3) quad chart, 4) signed safety form.

• Honors Division Project Upload Deadline:
  noon, Fri, Feb 7, 2025
• K-12 Division Project Upload Deadline:
  noon, Mon, Apr 14, 2025
• Limit of 10 pages for presentation and 10 pages for logbook.
• Research Literature Review Division, students upload 1 file (can be Word doc or pdf) with 5 pages double-spaced (may be double-sided) + 2-3 pages if needed, of charts and/or graphs ONLY (may also be double-sided) + 1 page bibliography with 3 sources minimum (may also be double-sided), signed safety form, and quad chart.
• The size limit for each file uploaded is 100 MB.

Click Here for a handy Student "How-to" Flyer.

The Academy of Science - St. Louis recruits science organizations and universities to judge projects entered in the Honors Division and K-12 Fairs.

• Honors Division Online Judging: Feb 8 - 13 | In-person Top 10-12 Finalists Judging: Sat, Feb 22, 2025, Location TBA.
• K-12 Division Online Judging: Apr 15 - Apr 25, 2025

Click Here for judging rubrics, and make sure students have a copy of the appropriate rubric as they prepare their project for the Fair.

Close to $40,000 in scholarships and awards are presented to students with top projects.

Awards are mailed to the address the student used to register their project. Scholarship awards are emailed or snail mailed to the address that is used when the student registers. If the teacher's address is used, then any scholarship awards and the electronic ribbon certificates are mailed to the teacher; and the teacher becomes responsible for emailing, mailing, or conveying awards and ribbon certificates to the student/s.

Check the Home Page on Wed, May 6, 2025, to see ribbon placement and awards announcements.