This Speaker Session is an Introduction to Fundraising and our speakers are Alyssa Brownsmith and Jennifer Halinda. Alyssa is our Strategic Partnership Manager. She has over fifteen years of experience working with STEM partners and executing partnerships and events. And Jennifer is our Partnership Manager with a focus on grants and corporate sponsorship. She has over nine years of experience raising funds for non-profits and forming long-term partnerships.

In this session, you'll hear about some of the myths of fundraising, strategies when approaching local organizations for partnerships, and tips for writing grants.

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This Speaker Session is about Community Outreach with Anne-Marie Simard. Anne-Marie is a high school science teacher, is a former science fair participant, was a member of the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair committee and the Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair committee, and has volunteered with Science Fair Foundation BC in developing student workshops and the two regional fairs we hosted last year.

In this session, you'll hear about how science fairs match the current BC science curriculum and different ways to introduce and encourage teachers to bring science fairs into the classroom.

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Additional Resources:
Science Celebration Handbook with BC Curriculum Correlation
Science Fair Curricular Competencies Learning Map
Sample Presentation - Outreach to Schools
Sample Presentation - Outreach to Students

In this Speaker Session, Simran Banwait talks about some of the fundamental goals and best practices around social media marketing and PR. Simran is the Social Media Manager with JamPR. He specializes in digital marketing, particularly through the various social media platforms, and helps get people and businesses noticed through social media best practices, content creation and engagement.

In this session, you'll hear about the different social media platforms, their different purposes and audiences, and what content to post, and how often, to best promote your science fair.

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Roswitha (Rossi) Marx joins us in this Speaker Session to discuss ethics in science fairs. Rossi is Senior Laboratory Instructor at the University of Victoria, where she provides mentorship and hands-on learning opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. She has also been the chair of the Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair since 2004, and is involved with Science Venture and Let's Talk Science, among other things.

In this session, Rossi talks about the fundamentals and importance of ethics in science fairs, which projects need ethics approval, reviews examples of ethics forms and how to fill them out, and provides several examples from her own experience of projects that needed ethics approval.

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Additional Resources:
Understanding Ethics and Safety Workshop (student information)
Sample Ethics Approval Form (with answers)
Sample Informed Consent and Permission Form (Fillable Version)
Sample Letter of Information (Fillable Version)
Sample Request For Ethics Approval Form (Fillable Version)
Safety & Ethics Resources from MyStemSpace

 

Our speaker for this session is Gerry Gourlay, the Teaching Assistant Coordinator at the University of Victoria. Gerry is also the Coordinator for the Canadian Association of Girls in Science, the Victoria Chapter, has served as Chief Judge for the Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair, and played a huge role with Science Fair Foundation BC getting the judging process set up for both the 2022 West Kootenay Regional Science Fair and Central Interior Science Exhibition.

For this Speaker Session, Gerry discusses what goes into the creation and development of a judging rubric, transferring your rubric into a scoresheet for judges, and what to do after your judges have submitted their scores.

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Additional Resources:
Sample Judging Tally Sheet
Sample Judging Rubric

 

Peter Scott is the District Principal of Innovation and Technology for SD51 and has run science fairs at the school, district and regional levels. For this Speaker Session, Peter talks about some of the basic requirements around registration for science fairs and things to consider when setting up registration for both students and judges.

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Peter Scott is the District Principal of Innovation and Technology for SD51 and has run science fairs at the school, district and regional levels. For this Speaker Session, Peter talks about some of the basic requirements around registration for science fairs and things to consider when setting up registration for both students and judges.

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Additional Resources:
Sample Judge Training Video
Sample Judge Training Slides
Sample Judge Interview Scheduling Spreadsheet

We're welcoming back Anne-Marie Simard for our Speaker Session on awards and the awards ceremony, probably one of the most important parts of a science fair for youth participants. Learn about the different kinds of awards, how to assign them, and how to go from judge scores to presenting the awards at the award ceremony.

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Kevin Frankham and Linda Haugen have attended well over twenty Canada-Wide Science Fairs and accompanied, supported and guided dozens of students through the national judging process and activities. During this Speaker Session, they talk about the primary role and responsibilities of a CWSF delegate, and how to prepare both yourself and your students for the national competition.

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Handout - Prep and Expectations of Delegates

CWSF Information Forms, Policies and Guides:
Appeals Policy
Code of Conduct
Academic Integrity
Project Displays
Responsibilities - Delegate & Alternate Delegate
Responsibilities - Finalist
Discipline Policy
Finalist Permission & Release Form
ProjectBoard Entry Guide 2023