Updated Nov. 13, 2008

State Fair Registration deadline – February 16, 2009

Regional Directors Note: An email address for the students entering state projects is required for important communication from the state fair. This address needs to be for parents of the student, not a teacher sponsor or regional director. Be sure to collect these addresses prior to registering students for the state fair.

This is a strict, final deadline. It allows for a regional fair to be held as late as February 14, but results from the 14th will have to be received by the state fair in electronic form NO LATER than February 16. Any sent after this date will be disqualified.

No ties will be allowed for any reason. Any region with a tie MUST decide how to break the tie and submit ONLY ONE entry per grade/category. Any ties submitted will be disqualified.

All first place winners from regional fairs in grades 3-12 may participate in the Fair. This includes all public, private, and home- schooled students that win first place in a recognized regional fair. Grade level divisions are as follows:

  • Grades 3-4
  • Grades 5-6
  • Grades 7-8
  • Grades 9-10
  • Grades 11-12
  • except for Multimedia Applications in which divisions are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Regional Fair Directors must register all first place students. Students must be registered by their current grade level. Students entering as a team must compete at the grade level of the higher grade of the two team members.

The Hardware category is restricted to 6th grade and above only. The Individual and Team Programming Challenge categories are limited to 7th grade and above only. All other categories are open to 3-12 competitors.

All categories are open to team competition except for Individual Programming Challenge. Except for TPC, teams of two compete with individuals in all categories. Teams are restricted to a maximum of 2 participants.