North Carolina - Northeast Regional Science Fair

Saturday, February 29, 2020

The 2020-2021 Northeast Regional (Region 1) Science and Engineering Fair (SEF) will be held Saturday, Feb. 17, 2021, at East Carolina University in our Science and Technology Building. We are looking forward to the event. We hope to have participants from schools in every county in our region. We particularly want to encourage all high school science educators to encourage students to do science or engineering projects and enter them in the regional fair. If they compete at our regional fair and win at the region and the state level, our region’s high school students will be eligible for the millions of dollars in awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). To keep increasing the number, the regional directors throughout the state have decided to continue to foster high school participation again this year. In the Northeast Region, we are allowing high school students to compete at the Regional SEF without competing in a local fair, as long as students have followed ISEF rules and regulations.

It is important that you schedule your local fairs early enough to submit your registration forms to us by Wednesday Feb. 7, 2021. That gives us less than two weeks to arrange the judges and schedule, so no late entries will be accepted.

Registration for the Northeast Regional Science Fair has been free and we will continue that policy in 2021. However, there are costs associated with the Fair. In the past, these costs were covered by funds raised by the organizers. We will minimize the costs associated with the event by not having cash prizes in 2021, but instead award a medal or ribbon for the winners.