Here’s some important information about this year’s fair and reminders of upcoming deadlines:
We have a NEW LOCATION THIS YEAR! The 2025 fair will be held in the CIC Building at WSU Tri-Cities (2770 Crimson Way, Richland WA). Please see the schedules and maps page for maps and driving directions.
Lunch Options: Two food trucks (El Tacoriendo and Doggie Style Gourmet) will have food available for purchase just outside the CIC building during the lunch break. Item prices range from $3 to $15. There is a vending machine available in the CIC building. Students may also bring their own lunch.
Project Display Information: As you prepare for the fair, please read through the rules for your project display: https://midcolumbiasciencefair.org/project-display-information/ Your project board should fully explain your project on its own – no active internet or email connections are allowed as part of your project display.
Fair Schedule: See the full fair schedule at: https://
- Projects need to be set up by 9am and remain on display until 5pm
- Middle School Judge Interviews are from 9am-2pm
- High School Judge Interviews are from 9am-4pm
- Public Viewing of Projects: 2pm-5pm
- Projects Need to be removed between 5-7pm. Contact registration@midcolumbiasciencefair.org if you need to make alternate arrangements for project pick-up
- Lunch breaks will be staggered between 11am-1pm. You’ll receive this schedule at registration.
Upcoming Deadlines:
1) Research Plan and Form Corrections are due by 9pm March 4: The SRC is working to review your projects. You can check on your project’s approval inside STEM Wizard – milestones turn green with a checkmark once they are approved. The SRC is sending messages to students who need to make research plan corrections before their research plan can be approved. Students can view these messages inside STEM Wizard and through the email address they registered in STEM Wizard. Be sure to click the blue SAVE RESEARCH PLAN button after you have made any corrections to your Research Plan.
The SRC and IRB are also working on approving forms and sending messages about items that need to be corrected before the forms can be approved. If you get a message that a form was rejected – DON’T PANIC! A “rejected” form means you need to make corrections to the form – forms will be approved once you make these corrections! Please make these corrections promptly. Let us know if you have any questions or need help uploading forms. You can upload corrected forms into STEM Wizard or email them to “registration@midcolumbiasciencefair.org“. You can see which forms have been approved inside your STEM Wizard account.
2) Additional Information Milestone due by 9pm March 4: This milestone has some short (mostly yes/no) questions that may qualify your project for certain special awards.
3) Abstract and Project Board PDF (Picture) Milestones due by 9pm March 10: The Project Board PDF milestone is for you to upload a picture of your project board. This should be a picture of ONLY your board – you should NOT be in the picture. These will be used for judging some Special Awards.
Good luck with your projects! Let us know if you have any questions.