UT Arlington - Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair
2025
Welcome to Fair Day! 🎉
Please make sure to read the participants' schedule, as well as the teachers', parents', guardians', and general public's schedule for details on today's proceedures.
Judges may find the judging schedule under the Judges tab.
Teachers, parents, & guardians, please see sechedule for designated waiting areas.
Please ensure everyone adheres to the venue's policies, as security will be enforcing them.
The UTA - Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair has successfully concluded its 74th operational year!
We'd like to congratulate all teachers, parents, guardians, judges, sponsors, volunteers, and staff, as well as all participants for making the fair possible!
Check out the awards section to view this year's fair champions!
Pre-Fair Day inspection of digital posterboards is now in progress.
Projects needing approval from the Scientific Review Committee (SRC) must be approved either by a local SRC or the FWRSEF SRC if the school is small enough to establish its own SRC (e.g., home school).
Retrieve project(s) from hall (optional) Unattended projects will be discarded after 09:00PM.
09:00PM
Venue
Closing
TXSEF 2025 Schedule
The Texas Science and Engineering Fair will be hosted in-person by the Engineering Department of Texas A&M University starting in March 28-29, 2025. See TXSEF for more information.
Regeneron ISEF 2025
Regeneron ISEF 2025 will take place in Columbus, Ohio. The week-long event will be held May 10th - 16th, 2025. Please visit the Society for Science's page for more information.
Science News Learning
The Society for Science's Science News Learning program is now open for registration. Any public middle school or public high school STEM teacher may register while positions are availble.
About The Program
Receive dynamic science journalism, ready-to-use, standard-aligned teaching content and professional development through the society's Science News Learning program. Regeneron and other sponsors are funding the participation of nearly 6,000 public high schools during the 2025-2026 school year. Spots are filling up fast, so fill out the interest form today.
Each school participating in the Science News Learning program receives:
Print copies of Science News and Science News Explores issues throughout the school year—providing access to the latest in-depth science reporting
Year-round digital access to sciencenews.org, allowing students to research science topics reported on since 1921
Access to the Educator Portal with a library of interdisciplinary lesson plans, each one paired to journalism article(s) and aligned with NGSS
Informational workshops and professional development sessions centered around resource integration
Programmatic newsletters that highlight the current Educator Guide and provide other teaching resources
Access to a digital Educator Community of Society for Science teachers to share ideas and best practices
Do you manage a group of STEM teachers from different public high schools or are you a district STEM coordinator?Sign up all your schools as a cohort and receive additional support integrating the resources to meet your group's specific goals.
The fair considers junior high (6th to 8th grade), and senior high (9th - 12th grade) students as potential participants. All participants are required to have an adult sponsor / representative responsible for handling their registration process. Representatives register their participants and themselves into the registration system once project registration opens. Registration information becomes available once project registration opens.
The fair schedule is generally broken down into to major days:
Setup Day: Representatives & participants arrive, typically on a Sunday in mid February between 12:00PM and 05:00PM, and setup their projects at their pre-allocated positions.
Fair Day: Representatives & participants arrive, typically on a Monday in mid February between 8:30AM and 11:30AM, and in-person judging occurs. The awards ceremony is generally that evening.
Please note a detailed schedule is released about a month prior to Fair Day.
Please note upcoming dates, updates, and notices are generally posted in the home tab.
Rules and Guidelines
Please visit the Regeneron ISEF website for detailed information on Project Rules and Guidelines; all UTA-FWRSEF projects must conform.
Pay particular attention to the Display & Safety Rules, with emphasis to project dimensions' limits.
Texas Science and Engineering Fair and its Regional Fairs utilize the STEM Wizard platform for registration. Participants (e.g. students) and their representatives (e.g. teachers) must use the STEM Wizard UTA-FWRSEF portal for registration. Visit STEM Wizard for more information regarding their platform.
Middle school students must fill out the Safety Consent Form and upload it to STEM Wizard during registration. This is a simplified form for Middle School participants.
Tip: When a participant registers at STEM Wizard, the participant must choose a secondary representative (e.g. teacher) in order to proceed to the next step of registration.
If your school has a designated coordinator capable of seeing all students' projects, the student must choose the secondary teacher option, then choose the coordinator's name (they must be registered as a teacher first).
If your school has only one teacher, the placeholder secondary teacher option “2ndary Ottoman” must be selected. Selection of this teacher will enable your student to continue registration.
Please ensure the following milestones have been met in STEM Wizard to complete registration.
Project Information
Personal Information
Files and Forms (will turn green upon SRC approval)
School SRC/IRB Review
Abstract
Please note digital posterboards are not due with registration!
Project Database
The Project Database is accessible below and provides access to fair administrators, participants' representatives (such as teachers, ...), and judges, to view and manage this year's project entries and to perform essential functions.
Information regarding login credentials should arrive via e-mail by 02/07/25 to all Project Database users.
Assets upload period has ended for this year's fair.
Representatives may access the Project Database to view fair projects, configure project asset links (digital project boards, presentation videos), and keep notes on any project competing in the fair.
The following steps must be completed to configure required project links for all your participants.
It is imperative to configure project asset links by the assets submission deadline. Judges and staff must have access to all required assets associated with each competing project for processing purposes. Failure to follow these instructions may result in disqualification.
Log in to view all projects, assigned projects, all teams, assigned teams, and keep notes on any project competing in the fair, such as your assigned projects. Once project assets have been uploaded, links will be made available to preview assets before live judging on Fair Day.
This section applies to everyone requiring UTA-FWRSEF on-campus parking on Setup Day, and Fair Day. Parking registration and e-permit are required for all vehicles parking on-site. Any vehicle parked on campus without an e-permit will receive a citation. Please follow the instructions below to register.
We warmly welcome all visitors to our campus! Only participants will be permitted entry into College Park Center on Monday morning for the judging event. We kindly request that all non-participant visitors (teachers, chaperones, parents, guardians...) utilize the Palo Duro Lounge or the Food Court area located in our University Center. Starbucks is available in the University Center, & at the UTA Bookstore. You can also find Panera Bread conveniently situated directly across the street from College Park Center.
This year's science fair has concluded; see you next February!
P.O. Box 19528 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019-0528 For questions about forming a Scientific Review Committee (SRC) contact Dr. Peng
The UT Arlington-Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair is the longest continually operating science fair in the United States, bringing together several hundred student exhibitors from a ten-county area of north Texas. We support our mission of promoting interest in science and engineering by offering significant educational opportunities to our participants.
Your voluntary contribution of time and effort is indispensable to the success of the UTA-FWRSEF. Quality judging, together with personal feedback to participants, has encouraged science education among the teachers, parents, and students. Your participation will help to continue this fine tradition.
Sincerely,
Jan de Nijs Category Judging Chair
Paula Hahn Special Award Judging Chair
UTA - Fort Worth Regional Science & Engineering Fair
Correspondence: Jan de Nijs c/o Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company P.O. Box 748 Fort Worth, TX 76101 phone: 817-996-1552 (Office) email: jan.de.nijs@lmco.com
Applicants
The fair is made possible with the help of volunteer judges from all over the world. There are four major judge roles applicants may apply for, as detailed below.
Category judges are assigned projects from a specific division and category to judge. Assignments are based on qualification and preference.
Responsibilities
Reviews digital poster boards a week before fair day.
In-person judging from 8AM ~ 12PM on fair day.
Category chair judges share the same responsibilities as regular Category Judges do, while also leading the panel of judges for their respective divison and category. These judges are expected to remain in constant contact with the head of judging on fair day.
Responsibilities
Reviews digital poster boards a week before fair day.
In-person coordination at 7:30AM on fair day.
In-person judging from 8AM ~ 12PM on Fair Day.
Ensures scores are entered into project database.
Special award judges are assigned by the panel overseeing the special award. Assignment may vary depending on division, category, award quantity, and other factors.
Responsibilities
Reviews digital poster boards a week before fair day.
In-person judging from 8AM ~ 12PM on fair day.
Best of Fair (BOF) judges are responsible for judging and ranking the top projects from the fair as determined by category judges. For that reason, BOF judging ocurrs in the afternoon. Assignments are based on qualifications, experience, and preference.
Responsibilities
Reviews digital poster boards a week before fair day.
In-person judging from 1PM ~ 3PM on Fair Day.
Ensures scores are entered into project database.
If you're interested in becoming a judge for the UT Arlington - Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair, you may begin your submission using the button below. The application process has been streamlined, making it easier than ever to submit your application; the estimated time to complete the application is ~5 minutes.
The UT Arlington-Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair, established in 1951, is the oldest, continually operating regional science and engineering fair in the state of Texas and is also the biggest science and engineering fair in our region. Students from 10 counties (Cooke, Denton, Erath, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise) participate in order to advance the study of science, mathematics, and engineering in the great state of Texas!
The UT Arlington-Fort Worth Regional Science, & Engineering Fair is an organization made up of community and business volunteers whose purpose is to focus attention on science and stimulate interest in students beyond class work. The Science Fair offers an opportunity to display meritorious scientific talent through exhibits, and to arouse the interest of the public in science abilities of students and teachers.
Any student from grades 6 - 12 in public, private, home school, or parochial school in the Fort Worth region may enter the fair. Although most schools usually hold their own district fairs, there are other methods students can follow to participate in the UTA-FWRSEF. If all Regeneron Science and Engineering Fair's guidelines and rules are adhered to, students may still enter the Regional Fair on an individual basis. The UT Arlington-Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair continues to be one of only a few Regional Fairs in Texas that does not charge a participation fee to the schools and/or to the students. Although most schools usually hold their own district fairs, there are other methods that students can follow to participate in the UTA-FWRSEF.
Details may be found on the ISEF Website. If you need assistance with a student's project please forward your questions and contact information to director@fwrsef.org.
Projects needing approval from the Scientific Review Committee (SRC) must be approved either by a local SRC or the UTA-FWRSEF SRC before the experiment starts. Deadline for SRC approval is always in mid-December prior to the fair in mid-February. Check the schedule section, if available, for the latest information regarding times and dates for the fair.
The Board
The following is a list of people who have dedicated a lot of time and effort to the fair, both visibly and behind the scenes. A special thanks to all whose names appear here.
