Science Day Resources and Webpages from Ohio State Science Day

The Ohio State Science Day Pages have excellent resources for both STUDENTS and TEACHERS (including complementary Google Classroom). Check it out: https://ssd.ohiosci.org/

2024 Schedule, Information, and Parking Map

District 5 Science Day 2024 will be an “in-person” event on Saturday, 3/16/2024.

DATE:

3/16/2024

EVENT:

District 5 Science Day

REGISTRATION OPENS:

Teachers and Students – TBA

Mentors – TBA

Judges – TBA

REGISTRATION CLOSES:

Monday, February 26, 2024. No editing after this date, so please plan to complete before February 9th, 2024 so we have time to review forms and return them for correction if necessary.

Use ProjectBoard (not stemwizard): https://projectboard.world/oas

PLEASE start early. All students are encouraged to start and complete their Science Project using the rubrics, guidance and forms provided in ProjectBoard.

The Ohio Academy of Science provides ProjectBoard for Science Day Projects at no cost.

If all STUDENTS in your school start and complete their project using Project Board, promoting students to District Science Day should be fairly simple.

TEACHERS should create a ProjectBoard account, create a classroom and provide the classroom link to their students. This will allow teachers to use ProjectBoard to supervisor/mentor their students from the very beginning of project planning.

School Fair – ProjectBoard has fair management support – schools may use these features for their local science fair, also at no cost.

Registration must be completed in ProjectBoard. All forms and uploads must be completed and approved by the District before Monday, February 26, 2024, as the District will need time to review forms and return them for correction.

• For all ISEF forms in one PDF file: https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/international-rules/
  • You'll find the "Forms only (PDF) link under the "Rules and Guidelines" box.
• For 2024 - Students will bring their project poster board and no video is needed. If we pivot to online, then a video is recommended.
• State Science Day will be run virtually and a video is required along with ISEF forms, final report, and an abstract.
• Please adapt this "Going to District Science Day Instructions" document to hand out to your local fair students whose projects qualify to go to District. Student should finalize their Project Board information by the Friday after your school fair. (LINK NOT READY YET)
• If your school is paying for registrations, please email ScienceDay@uakron.edu to make arrangements. Fee information here: https://uakron.edu/wrsd/wrsd-registration-fees-and-mailing
• Judging: Teachers, please recruit 2 judges for each 5 students you send to District Science Day - Judging is critical to our success.

JUDGES and SPONSORS

• BEFORE registering to judge for an Ohio Academy of Science program, please watch this helpful tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQKwlpx_Ubc
• Register here: https://projectboard.world/oas
• Still have questions? Take a look at the registration manual.
• Judges are critical to our success.
• We provide training and will be available to answer questions. Thank you for supporting the teachers and students by sharing your wisdom and time.

QUESTIONS Please email scienceday@uakron.edu

Your school doesn't have a Science Day?

(For Spring 2024, you may attend District without achieving a Superior at a local fair. Nevertheless – going to a local fair is still a great idea.)

If your school does not run a local Science Day there are several "at large" fairs that will welcome you.

• In past years, NEOHSTEM actively supported and helped independent students with projects: http://www.neohstem.org/
• University School Upper School (accepts grades 5-12) Sunday, January 21, 8:30-1:30. Registration closes on January 4, 2024. (link coming)
• Check back, here, in October for a list of other "at large" fairs.

Work through ProjectBoard (https://projectboard.world/oas) and seek approval of your plan and get form sign-off (1, 1a and 1b, etc) before you start experimenting. Your teacher can be your "Adult Sponsor" and help you fill out the forms and get signatures. You can start now, and find a fair in October or November.

• See the Ohio State Science Day link at top for more information.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

• The Ohio Academy of Science - Learn about the 2023 Ohio Soybean BioScience Awards
• Society of Plastics Engineers

RESULTS ARCHIVE

View Archived Results from past events (2010-2023).