California State Science Fair
2008 Application

The 2008 Application Process is now available.

Before submitting this Application, you should be sure that you satisfy the eligibility requirements for the Fair, qualifying through the appropriate County/Regional Science Fair.

Also before starting this application process, please make sure that you have all of the answers to the questions on the sample paper application at hand. In particular, we recommend that you not wait until you've completed the first half dozen pages before starting to compose your Project Summary. Instead, compose it in your favorite word processor ahead of time so that when you reach the page asking you for it, you can copy and paste each of the pieces (Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions) into the appropriate fields. Please note that the length of your Project Summary is limited to what will fit into the allowed space on a single printed page formatted as in the Application Packet. You will have an opportunity to see that page as your judges will see it, and can revise it, before you complete the application.

In order to assure you that your Application is being handled appropriately, please read and follow the procedure below.

For the purpose of meeting your Application Deadlines, your application will be considered “submitted” when you complete the last page of the application and receive your Confirmation Code, and “complete” when your Application Fee and Signature Card are received by the Fair. (The certification form is also necessary for some, but not all, projects.) Since incomplete applications will not be considered, you should mail these other items immediately after submitting the on-line application.

Your Application will be considered along with all of the other completed Applications. Assuming that your project was authorized by your affiliated County or Regional Science Fair and that it meets our acceptance criteria then you should receive notice of acceptance via e-mail on or about May 4, and via US Mail 7-10 days later. Names of students with accepted projects will be posted on this Web site by Sunday, May 4.


IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR YOUR APPLICATION
1. Accept the SSL Certificate: Your application data is securely encrypted during transport over the web. In order to be able to proceed once you click on the button below, you must accept the certificate which the application process needs. Your browser may warn you about the certificate not coming from one of your already-recognized certificate authorities. This is correct. The certificate is self-signed by the Fair. If you ask to examine the certificate, here are examples of what the dialog boxes presented to you will look like if you are using Firefox/Mozilla or Internet Explorer as your web browser. Other browsers will have similar warnings. Internet Explorer v.7 (though not v.6 and before) issues somewhat deceptive alarms about the self-signed certificate, but you'll see that this expected web page will be just what you see if you're using v.7.

2. EMail Spam Blocking: If you maintain an email white list which prevents previously unknown people (such as us) from sending you email, please add CalifSF@usc.edu and CalifSF@physics1.usc.edu to your list now. All important communications from the Fair to you regarding your participation will be via email. Importantly, the last page of the application will confirm your application's submission by sending you email immediately after you press the final submit button.

If you are unable to access the application system owing to the web site on the following pages not being able to access the database server again, please phone (213)740-1101 or email CalifSF@usc.edu immediately.


See also our Frequently Asked Questions on the Application.


Last updated: Mon Apr 21 08:06:01 PDT 2008
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