Science Fair Updates — Science Fair at Redwood Shores Elementary

See you at the 2nd Redwood Shores Elementary Science Fair, March 27

Feb 13, 2024

We are thrilled to invite you to our 2nd Redwood Shores Elementary Science Fair, a celebration of curiosity, creativity and scientific exploration! The Fair will be on March 27th, in the Multi-Use Room.

To accommodate the number of projects, teams will present their projects to the school community in the following order:

Grades TK-2: 4:00-5:00 pm
Grades 3-5: 6:30-7:30 pm

Please join us in this inspiring opportunity for our students to share their discoveries and showcase their scientific knowledge. We encourage everyone to attend both sessions and support our young scientists. We look forward to seeing you there!

Registration Open for 2nd Redwood Shores Elementary Science Fair, 2024!

Dec 15, 2023

The 2nd Redwood Shores Elementary Science Fair will happen on March 27, 2024! This event is a great opportunity for students to develop and showcase their creativity, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills. The fair will be open to all grades TK-5 and everyone is encouraged to participate.

Students are welcome to participate in teams of two up to five, all in the same grade, and there must be one parent-coach per team. Please register your teams by Feb 2, 2024.

Also, we plan to have 2 information sessions, please try and attend at least one of them to get an overview of the Science Fair:

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 6:30 — 7pm
Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 6:30 — 7pm

Science Fair 2023 Concluded

May 17, 2023

Thank you for your interest and participation in the 2023 Science Fair!

We received strongly positive feedback from parents, coaches, and our budding scientists about the fair, and we hope to be back next year.

Tri-Fold Poster Boards Available

Apr 24, 2023

This email was sent out on April 24 to those teams that registered. If you did not receive this email, please contact us.

Dear Science Fair parents and coaches,

Hello everyone,

Hope your science projects are underway. It’s been great to see teams get together, brainstorm and come up with interesting ideas for their projects. We are very excited to see it all come together on May 17th, hope you are too!

On behalf of the organizing committee I would like to share a couple of updates -

Tri-fold poster board: As mentioned in Chaitra’s email below, these will be provided to you and they are now available for pick up in the school office along the “Information” wall on the left side as you enter the office. If you don’t find them there, please ask the office staff and they will assist you. Please take one board per team. We currently have 24 in stock and more should be available on Wednesday, so if you don’t find one no worries—we will be sure to get it to you later in the week. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
Optional additional help: We have a very motivated science student from Carlmont High who has experience participating in science fairs in the past and is very willing to help teams with her knowledge and expertise. If your team may benefit from some additional help, please feel free to reach out to her (please contact us for more details) Please note this is completely optional and only meant to provide additional support if needed. She has also kindly shared an example of a poster board from one of her past science fairs.

Sample Tri-fold

Thank you and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Meghna (on behalf of the science fair organizing committee including Chaitra, Manas, and Mariana).

Deliverables & Resources

Apr 09, 2023

This email was sent out on April 9 to those teams that registered. If you did not receive this email, please contact us.

Dear Science Fair parents and coaches,

Thank you all for signing up for the Science Fair! We hope that it will be a fun experience for the kids and we are looking forward to seeing interesting experiments and models on May 17!

The planning committee has put together some information and guidance that may be helpful to the students as they prepare for the Science Fair.

We are asking students to complete a science journal for both tracks: experiments and models/engineering. This is required for grades 2-5 and optional (but encouraged) for TK-1. Please make a copy of the journal for your student/team. Students can either hand write the journal or type directly in the document. The journal will be evaluated during the Science Fair and it is required to have at least 5 entries in the Observations and Data Collection section.
We are also asking each student to complete a Reflections worksheet to reflect on their experience. Please make a copy of the Reflections worksheet for each student and ask them to complete it either by hand or type in the document. The planning committee will ask students to share their worksheets with us so we can use their feedback to inform and guide next year’s Science Fair.
Please visit our website and view the slides from the information sessions if you have any questions. The rubric that will be used for evaluation is also on the website. Please refer to it as the students design and do their projects.
If teams need inspiration for brainstorming project ideas, there are resources listed on the website.
Tri-fold poster boards will be provided. We are working on that and will reach out when they are available to students/teams.
We will be in touch as it gets closer to the Science Fair with instructions on how and when to set up poster boards and projects (if needed) in the MUR.
Lastly, we are looking for judges to be part of the Scientific Panels. We have a fantastic turnout of students so we will need many judges. If you or anyone you know has a background in STEM and would like to be a judge, please reach out to us. The evaluations will take place on May 17 from 4:30pm-6:30pm. To avoid conflict of interest, parents will not evaluate their child’s project.

The planning committee welcomes any feedback or questions so please feel free to reach out to any one of us. We would like this to be enjoyable and stress-free for both students and parents and for the Science Fair to be a success. We are hoping to make it into a yearly tradition!

Have fun and good luck!
Chaitra, Manas, Mariana, Meghna

Second Information Session

Mar 20, 2023

If you were not able to attend the first Information Session, you can join us for the second one on Tuesday, March 28 at 7pm. The content and topics will be the same as the first one. This will also be online-only, via Zoom.

To receive updates directly, please fill out our interest form.

Information Session & Interest Form

Mar 12, 2022

Please join us for an online-only Information Session on Monday, March 20, 2023 at 7pm via Zoom.

To receive updates directly, please fill out our interest form.

Announcing the 2023 Science Fair

Mar 12, 2022

Redwood Shores Elementary PTA will be hosting our very first school-wide Science Fair in May 2023. Parents & kids, explore the wonders of science together to showcase your creativity and scientific skills.