Downers Grove Grade School District 58 seeks curious students to conduct creative experiments and present their discoveries at the 37th Annual Science Fair!
Science Fair registration runs from Friday, Dec. 1 through Friday, Dec. 22. Please register online at www.dg58.org/sciencefair.
The Science Fair will be held Jan. 20, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at O’Neill Middle School. The fair is open to all District 58 students in grades 1-8 who attend District 58 schools or whose family is a member of Downers Grove Friends of the Gifted and reside within District 58 boundaries.
Students may register as an individual or with a partner. If the partners are in two different grade levels, they must follow the rules of the older grade level.
The District’s Science Fair website provides project topic ideas, grade level specific project instructions and judging requirements. All projects will begin by posing a question and researching and conducting an experiment. The project will comprise an exhibit, written report and oral report. Participants in grades 1-2 will be judged non-competitively and will all receive a participation ribbon.
Students in grades 3-8 may choose to participate competitively or non-competitively.
A team of two judges will objectively rate the Science Fair’s competitive entries on their knowledge of topic, written report and exhibit. First, second and third place ribbons will be awarded.
Additionally, seventh and eighth grade projects will be eligible for the Regional or State Science Fair based on merit.
Parents are encouraged to support their children and ensure they follow instructions correctly. However, the Science Fair is an independent project and children are expected to complete all manipulations and measurements for their experiments, and to create all drawings and chart for their boards, without parent help.
For more information, please visit www.dg58.org/sciencefair.