Tri County Science and Technology Fair

Fair is April 28, 2018

WHITE PLAINS HIGH SCHOOL
550 North St
White Plains, NY

PUBLIC VIEWING IS 1:00-2:00 (tentative time)
If you are presenting / exhibiting  at the Fair you will receive an email from us
approximately 2 weeks prior to the Fair, explaining when to show up and judging times
if you do not receive it please email JNewman@DiscoveryCtr.org

Please consider a tax deductible donation to the Fair

THANK YOU PEPSICO R& D for supporting the 2016 Fair

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** Please note we participate in the KOHLS Associates in Action Volunteer program, if you are a Kohls employee please let us know so your store can participate. We get much needed volunteers and a check from KOHLS-its a win-win! **

THANK YOU KOHLS Brewster
for sending us volunteers for the 2017 Fair
Please support these stores;
Brewster 60 Independence Way

DONATIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED

For information about joining the Fair please have your Science teacher or principal contact
JNewman@DiscoveryCtr.org

**PLEASE  DO NOT CONTACT WHITE PLAINS HS**

If you are already entered in the Fair you will receive an email from us
approximately 2 weeks prior to the Fair

Please consider a tax deductible donation to the Fair

DIRECTIONS
please use mapquest

Please note Elementary & Middle School Students can only be entered by their school please have the school email JNewman@DiscoveryCtr.org
or fax over a letter requesting forms (914)-205-3623

HS Student Entry Process
Please be aware that payment must be completed before a student is considered entered.

1. HS SELF PAY — each student is responsible for payment Click Here
2. The HS ( school) pays for all students. An invoice is emailed to our school contact person.

** Please note when a student does self pay he/she is entered at the time the form submits ** When a school pays the teacher needs to obtain a link from JNewman@DiscoveryCtr.org to submit the students.

All HS student direct entries (using self pay) are subject to their science department Chair’s approval,  each entry will be verified with your school

• HS Rules:  2018-hs-rules
• ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL  must go through your school after holding a school Fair
  please email JNewman@DiscoveryCtr.org for entry forms
• Elementary & Middle School Rules: 2018_elementary_and_middle_school_rules

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PAST YEAR’S FAIRS

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL FAIR PARTICIPANTS:

If you are exhibiting at this year’s Fair? Please note you need to get a parent informational email .  This email is the “final” game plan.  Every year things are changed, please do not use previous year information. This year parent information will be emailed directly to the parents using the email address we have received on the Fair Permission Slip. If you did not fill out a Fair permission slip, please contact your teacher so they can provide you one. Once filled out return to your teacher.  The teacher needs to fax it to us, we cannot accept things faxed from parents. If you have not been provided with this packet at least one week prior to the Fair check with your teacher. Please make sure that JNEwman@DiscoveryCtr.org is considered a “friendly” email account so nothing goes to spam.

HIGH SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS

Please note you will receive  a Student Email   This email is the “final” game plan.  Every year things are changed, please do not use previous years. This year student information will be emailed directly to all  students regardless of whether you are self pay pr school paid. Teachers will also get a copy of this email.  Please make sure that JNewman@DiscoveryCtr.org is considered a “friendly” email account so nothing goes to spam.

** Exhibitors, Judges & Volunteers all receive information via email prior to the Fair **

Interested in Judging? Please read the current Judges letter to learn more about judging.
Interested in   Volunteering for the TCS Fair? Please fill out the appropriate  form.

• Volunteers
• Judging Volunteers 
• about-the-fair
• sci-tech-fair-overview-grafed-k-8-1
• 2018_elementary_and_middle_school_rules
• judge-edith-miller-excellence-in-education
• marilyn-reiner-science-in-education
• Tupperware Fundraiser its not your mother’s Tupperware anymore all BPA free
• Donations
• Is your school looking to bring in our Hands on Science one time program? click here

Tri-County Science & Technology Fair Origins

Many schools made science projects a component of the science curriculum after Sputnik (October 4, 1957), in an effort to motivate and stimulate student interest in the field. In addition to teacher evaluation, students often entered in a school/district Science Fair for recognition and placement.

Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) initiated a State Science Congress for High School project candidates, from the sixteen local sections of the state, over forty years ago. Its purpose is to promote science research at the pre-college level. These students compete for placement and scholarships monies. Each Section can send three area finalists per one hundred participants, from a Regional Science Congress, to this event.

Westchester Section STANYS was pleased to join with The Putnam Children’s Discovery Center, Westchester/Putnam Technology Educators Association and the Consortium of Scientists and Engineers to sponsor the first K-12 Tri-County Science Technology Fair in April 1994. Through this event students have the opportunity to display their work, learn from their peers and be inspired by parents, educators and professionals to pursue their interest in science.

From the beginning, the Tri-County Fair has been open to participants in three grade divisions: K-4, 5-8, and 9-12. Categories are: Biology, Chemistry, Health & Medicine,  Earth/Space Science, Engineering/Technology, Environment. Mathematics/Computers and Physics, High School has an added category: Psychology.  All entrants present their projects both visually and orally, to a minimum of two judges comprised of scientists and engineers specific to their fields. The K-4 students are encouraged to develop their interest in science and accordingly awarded excellent or outstanding ribbons. Developing the problem solving skill at an early age ensures productive citizens in the future. Participants in the grade 5-8 and 9-12 divisions compete for first, second and third place in each of the respective categories. Middle School students in grades 6,7 and 8 have the added benefit to be chosen to compete in theBroadcom Masters held in the fall. High school students aspiring to STANYS Science Congress competition, must work individually on an empirical or theoretical research project.

FUNDING

Please note, many corporations will match employee donations. The following have matched in the past.

If you do not see your company listed, please ask if they do matching grants and if so is science education part of their match program, we reach students and their families across three counties in NYS

Please check with your company and “double” your gift by requesting a matching donation form.

This Donate Button will designate funds for Fair Only

Why Donate??

The Tri County Science & Technology Fair  is annually organized by the Putnam Children’s Discovery Center for the purpose of sharing science with the community and  rewarding children who spend their time creating  innovative and well researched science projects.  These students with support from their parents and teachers are interested in striving for academic excellence with a dedication and commitment to science and technology.  The Fair is open to students in grades K-8 who have won first place at their local school fair and to high school students grades 9-12 who have been selected by their principal or science department chair to present original research or  demonstrate a scientific principle.    The high school students who have opted to enter original research have the added benefit of an opportunity to continue on to the NYS level.  In the next few years it is anticipated that the Discovery Center will launch it’s Original Invention Convention which will provide new opportunities for students who have created a qualified project.

Through this event students have the opportunity to display their work, learn from their peers and be inspired by parents, educators and professionals to pursue their interest in science.  Monies raised for this project go primarily for prizes for the students.

Who Donates???

Corporate support for this event begins at $250 with “best exposure” at the $1,000 plus level.  Donations of $1,000 or more can expect their company name to appear on the banners that are placed throughout the event.  It also ensures a spot on the front cover of the brochure as well as on the many posters that are placed in local libraries, schools etc.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Won’t you please consider sponsoring our Tri-County Science Technology Fair?
Your contribution would enable local children from Rockland, Putnam and Westchester Counties, the OPPORTUNITY to compete on a regional level — a prerequisite for high-school students to compete on a statewide level.

Prior to the inception of the Tri-County Science & Technology Fair back in 1992, students were UNABLE to compete at a county-wide science fair because there was no regional competition available.

With an increasing number of participants each year comes an increase in the expenses we incur in staging this fair. Not only does your support reinforce your company’s presence in the community, but it is a continuing pledge and show of support that our children NEED continuous exposure to mathematics, the sciences and technology to further their interest, knowledge and education in these areas. These students are our future engineers, scientists, biologists, doctors, educators. THEY ARE OUR FUTURE. Aren’t they worth the investment?

Past sponsors have included: Praxair, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, PepsiCo Global R&D, Industrial Theater Inc., Philips Research, Duracell, Texaco, Consumers Union, Country Bank, Science Teachers Association of NYC (Westchester Section), Engelhard, TRC Raymond Keyes Associates, Todd Newman, CPA, Hudson Valley Council of Technical Societies, Westchester/Putnam Technology Educators Association, St. Joseph’s School PTA, St. John the Baptist PTA, Milea Hudson Valley Truck Center, Transnuclear, St. John the Evangelist PTA, Harrison High School, and individual donors without whose support these students would have missed an additional opportunity to display their scientific thought and talent.

Donation Levels:

All donations are recognized in the brochure distributed at the Fair. All donations are tax deductible (per 501 (c) 3 and are recognized in our program the day of the Tri-County Science & Technology Fair.

To make a donation simply write a check payable to PCDC and put Tri County Science & Technology Fair in the memo.  This insures that the monies will only be used for the Fair. To mail the check to PCDC, Attn J. Newman – PO Box 222 Carmel, NY 10512. Use PayPal: Jnewman@DiscoveryCtr.org or donate now using this link.

About the Tri-County Science & Technology Fair

This science fair has been organized for the sole benefit of all grade-level students throughout Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland counties in New York. Our goals in staging this science fair are:1. To provide a competition in which students can compete on a regional level against other students within their grade level from surrounding community schools, both public and private.2. To provide a public event which would encourage students, by learning from other students, to pursue their own interests and studies in the fields of science and technology.3. To provide a public forum where students can display their own visual interpretation of a scientific concept or principle, or technological application, that the student has learned in school, by independent studies or by his/her own developed interest; a forum whereby students, in the process of designing an developing a science project from concept to presentation, exercise specific preparation skills (such as data gathering, evaluation, problem solving, decision making, thought process, and creative thinking).4. To provide a public display of student progress in their education of science and technology, thereby encouraging active, continual involvement by parents, guardians, educators, governments, and the community as a whole, to act as mentors, teachers and supporters of our children as they continue their studies in those fields.The following paragraph applies to High School Entrants only!!!
5. To establish a regional science fair whereby high school students from the designated Tri-county area could compete on the required regional level, thus allowing them to further compete on a statewide level, if the students desire to do so.

Here’s what people have to say about the Tri-County Science & Technology Fair…

I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Westchester-Putnam Technology Educators Association to continue the support of the fine science and technology related activities your center provides our teachers and their students. The Science & technology Fair is an excellent learning experience for all that participate.
— William Rock
Executive Secretary, New York State Technology Education Association
President, Westchester Putnam Technology Educators Association
Technology Instructor, Somers Middle School

The Westchester Section of the Science Teacher’s Association of New York State is proud to acknowledge the continuing contribution to science education made by the Putnam Children’s Discovery Center…It is more important than ever that we look for avenues that can enrich and enhance the curricula which is presented in schools. The hard work and dedication of the staff of the Putnam Children’s Discovery Center provides a mechanism for students to pursue and master science concepts, talk with experts in the sciences, and have fun at the same time…We plan to continue to support their activities.
— Marily H. Reiner
Chairperson
STANYS Westchester Section

I want to thank you and the Tri-County Science & Technology Fair Committee for giving me that opportunity to exhibit my research project, and for the generous prize awarded to me.
— Gary T. Cirlin
New City, NY

On April 26th, I had the pleasure of competing in the Tri-County Science and Technology Fair. I would like to thank you for sponsoring this event. The Fair was a real learning experience. I genuinely enjoyed the judging. I would also like to thank you for the generous award of $100 I received for placing first in the Environmental category. College is always an expensive endeavor. This will definitely help me defray the costs. I hope you will continue to sponsor the Tri-County Fair in the future.
— Matte Gerbil
Student, Sanders Trades & Technical High School, Yonkers, NY.

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