Updated September 18, 2009

State Fair Registration deadline – February 15, 2010

Only projects from RECOGNIZED regions will be allowed to participate in the state level Technology Fair. All regions must be registered with the GETF prior to submission of entries. If your area is interested in being recognized as a new region, contact GETF director here: Tom Lamb.

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 13, but results from the 13th will have to be received by the state fair electronically on the approved spreadsheet NO LATER than February 15. 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
• Grades 7-12 ONLY in Hardware and Programming Challenge categories

Regional Fair Directors must register all first place students. Students must be registered by their current grade level, but their project may be placed in a higher grade classification if on a team with an older student. Students entering as a team must compete at the grade level of the higher grade of the two team members. Any student on a team, regardless of grade, may compete at a higher grade level but never at a lower grade level.

The Hardware category is restricted to 7th 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.