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Three
pages of 2010 photos are now available

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2010
Award Winners
2010
TCRSF Photos
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2010
Photos are available
2010
TCRSF Program
printed
version: 2/2/10)
2010
Projects List for Judges (updated:
2/11/10) We will provide this for the judges at the fair.
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Judges
& Volunteers:
Sign
in to update your RSVP
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Teachers
and mentors play a vital role in the science fair process.
By registering as a
teacher/advisor/mentor
with TCRSF, we will be able to provide you timely information
regarding the registration and SRC processing of your students.
You will be able to access reports regarding the status of your
students, as well as receive optional email notifications when
your students register or when their SRC status changes.
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Upcoming Student Events
JSHS
Tri-State North Central Regional March 19 -
20, 2011, at the
SHERATON BLOOMINGTON HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS SOUTH
(research paper competition, grades 9-12)
Minnesota State Science
& Engineering Fair (Sun.-Tues.) March 20 - 22, 2011, at the
SHERATON BLOOMINGTON HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS SOUTH
7800 Normandale Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN 55439 (NEW VENUE: (Tall white hotel off of 494/100)
Room rate quoted to JSHS/State: 99.00 (up to 4 people per room)
and FREE PARKING for everyone (State competition is for project
exhibits in grades 7-12 and for research papers for grades 7-8.)
Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair
in Los
Angeles, California, May 8-13, 2011
I-SWEEEP
2011
- May
4-8,
2011:
Online
registration is open October 26, 2010 - March 4, 2011. Those who
attended ISWEEEP in 2009 & in 2010 from TCRSF gave it rave reviews!
JSHS:
National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium
2011 is not yet announced. 2010
was April 28 - May 2, 2010,
in Bethesda, Maryland.
Sanofi-aventis
International BioGENEius Challenge 2011.
State
submissions for 2010 are due before January 25,
2010, Midwest Regional
competition is March 6, 2010, in Minneapolis, and the
international competition is May 2-4, 2010, in Chicago, IL.
WATCH FOR DEADLINES and RULES
for 2011!
HIGH
SCHOOL students: Minnesota
Scholar of Distinction deadlines are in October 2010 for the
2011 award.
Upcoming TCRSF Events
If you are interested in volunteering or judging, please register on
our website! We need your help to make the Twin Cities science fair the best
yet!
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2011
forms & rules are posted on
the Forms page. 
If
you have photos from TCRSF or advanced
competitions that you would like to share, please email webmaster@tcrsf.org
for instructions. Thank you for sharing your photos!
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February
2011:
We
are waiting for the University to set the schedule in the Field House for
February. Our possible 2011 fair dates are: 1) February
25-26, 2)
February 18-19, or 3) February 11-12. The research paper deadline
will be in January 2011 for written paper submission.
Location:
Field House,
Minneapolis
campus
University
of Minnesota
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Our
LINKS
page contains links for additional competitions, links to sites for
science fair ideas, science methodology (how to do...), and links to some
science magazines. These can spark good ideas for your next science
project!
------------------------------- Science Fair (TCRSF) Thanks Our
Sponsors
Without our sponsors
and volunteers, we could not have a science fair! Our financial
sponsors at the Platinum Level are the Medtronic,
3M
Foundation,
and
Ecolab. Thank you,
Medtronic, 3M, and Ecolab
for your continuing support of science education!
Our financial
sponsor at the Gold Level is
Dow
Water & Process Solutions
Thank you, for your
support in encouraging students in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics.
Our financial
sponsors at the Silver Level are Alliant
Techsystems and Midway
Party Rental, Inc.
And, our financial
sponsors at the Bronze Level are University of Minnesota,
Twin
City Catering, Office Max
Impress Maple Grove, City of St.
Paul Youth
Fund, the Slattery
Sales Group and Ed's
Trophies Inc. in St. Paul Park, MN (email:
edstrophies@comcast.net, call Donna)
Special thanks to
our NEW SPONSOR for all your printing and office needs: Office Max
Impress Maple Grove!
If you are
interested in becoming a financial sponsor of the science fair, please
contact Mike Lohman at 763-421-3338.
If you are
interested in providing an award for the next science fair, please send an
email to awards@tcrsf.org.
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Prithwis
Mukhopadhyay, 11th grade, Woodbury High School, was one of two
students in the Midwest 12-state area selected as a Regional finalist
in the 2010 sanofi-aventis BioGENEius Challenge.
The other student is from Michigan. Prithwis
will received an all-expense paid trip to compete at the sanofi-aventis
International BioGENEius Challenge in Chicago, IL (May
2-4, 2010) where he won $500 national honorable mention. A press release
from the Midwest competition is available.
In
2009, Stephen Trusheim, 12th grade,
Breck School in Golden Valley, won first place of $7,500 in the 2009
sanofi-aventis International
BioGENEius Challenge with his project entitled
"Engineering and Validating Predictive Infection
Surveillance Strategies for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA)”
Stephen
Trusheim, now a student at Stanford, was an Intel Science
Talent Search 2009 Finalist (See
YouTube
Science Talent Search Interview with Stephen Trusheim.
) and he earned a 1st grand award at the 2009 Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair among many other
awards. Stephen will return to ISEF in May 2010 to conduct a
workshop symposium.
Congratulations
to these science scholars!
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2010:
Sonja Dunlap (Murray Jr. High School, St. Paul) wins the
"Almost
Perfect" Award
TCRSF
Committee awarded Sonja Dunlap (Murray Junior High School, St.
Paul) the "Almost Perfect" award
for having all her students paperwork nearly perfect! Sonja
was responsible to oversee 49 project and research paper entries
for TCRSF. That's a lot of paperwork to be done nearly
perfectly!!! Congratulations to Sonja Dunlap on a job well done!
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Twin
Cities Regional Science Fairs - Benefits of Doing Both a Science
Project and a Research Paper
Is
science fair just for geeks or nerds? NO WAY! Doing a good
science fair project teaches real life skills that apply to
EVERYONE!
First
of all, what is a science project? A science
project is the process of running a controlled experiment,
proposing a new theory based on library or experimental
research, or developing a new concept, invention, program, or
design (engineering). A science project is not a report
about an area of science. A science project is not building a
model that demonstrates something, unless the point of the
project is a new engineering design. Models of volcanoes, or of
the solar system, or of the heart are not a science project. Use
of a model to demonstrate a new theory or finding is, however,
acceptable. At the school and regional levels of
competition in a science fair, the science project is more about
the process of science and project work than it is about the
specific findings.
The
purpose of doing a science project is to teach the student
several skills. The first skill to be learned is the planning,
execution, and evaluation of a project. Every project, including
remodeling or decorating a room in your house or apartment or
building a deck, requires the same basic process.
Doing a
science project teaches the student extremely valuable skills
integrating reading, writing, spelling, grammar, critical
thinking, scientific methodology, graphic arts, math,
statistics, ethics, logic, computer science, self-learning
of one or more technical or specialty fields, and public
speaking and defense in front of expert judges. When a student
completes a science fair project, year after year, through
junior and senior high school, the science fair process yields
mature, self-confident, skilled, and competitive young leaders
who have career goals and the preparation, discipline, and drive
to attain them.
Did
you know that doing an excellent science project in high school
is likely the highest paying job your high school student can
get?
A top project and paper can net a quarter of a million
dollars just in winnings, and that doesn't count what it
does for a student's resume, college application, and
self-confidence! Many students earn $5000 or more!
Some of these projects take as few as 6 weeks to
complete.
Now that pays more than a summer job!
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