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Continuing Affiliates
Please note these
changes in
rules from last year.
Students who have qualified to participate in the California State Science Fair through your fair do not need any special paper document in order to submit an application to CSSF. All applications to CSSF have for many years been solely accepted online. However, most students need more guidance than a wave towards the web, so we have produced a one-page flyer for your qualified projects (and a separate one-page flyer for your alternate projects). See here for all flyers, organized by fair, approximately geographically.
Please give one flyer to each student because each student needs needs to complete the online application, regardless of whether the student has worked on an individual project, or as one member of a team.
The California State Science Fair encourages all affiliates to submit the names of all qualified students and alternates on this Excel 5.0 template whenever possible in order to help improve the accuracy of our data-entry process, e.g. to help us spell students' names correctly. If this is not feasible, however, submission of names as in previous years is still acceptable.
Under normal circumstances, the communicated list of eligible students should be sent via e-mail to CalifSF@usc.edu. For cases in which this is not feasible (and hence involving persons who are probably not reading this Web page) the preferred method of transmitting the list will have been agreed upon in advance by phone. Otherwise, see Communicating with the Fair.
In order to promote communication between CSSF and its affiliates, as well as communication between all affiliates, we have established a private listserv (an e-mail mailing list) exclusively for our affiliates. Subscriptions to this mailing list are limited only to persons associated with the operation of affiliated science fairs throughout the State. The listserv is moderated to eliminate junk e-mail traffic. For further information, or to be added to the mailing list, see here.