Virginia Piedmont Regional Science Fair
       Encouraging and Inspiring the Students of Piedmont Virginia
                              in Science and Engineering

Volunteer ― It's Rewarding

Over 100 volunteers are needed on the day of the fair to be a judge or an administrative official.

On the day of the fair, administrative officials are needed for various time periods to help with setup, registration of judges, registration of students, operations, compiling results, preparing awards, and monitoring students, setup and assistance for awards ceremony, and teardown.

• Volunteer registration begins at 7:30 a.m.

• Volunteers are needed, depending on their availability and tasks, at various times from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. If you can not volunteer all day, consider 7:30 to 12:00, 12:00 to 5:00, or 3:00 to 7:00.

• Please include your time constraints in your online registration comment box.

70 to 80 judges are needed on fair day from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. and just a few until 3:30 p.m. They have a special and rewarding task to interview and encourage students and to select top students in an assigned category. (See categories below) When volunteering as a judge please indicate the categories to which you are willing to be assigned. Judges should have an appropriate level of knowledge of the science categories to which they volunteer.

• Judge registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

• Orientation for judges begins at 9:00 a.m. Judges work in teams of 2-5 assigned to one or two categories.

• Judging hours are 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with a 45 minute lunch break with lunch provided. Depending on the number of projects in your assigned categories, you may finish early in the judging hours. Best of Show judges may be needed until 3:30 p.m.

• Students will be present during the judging hours.

• Donuts, bagels, juice and coffee in the morning and sandwiches, chips and soda at noon are provided.

        Junior   Senior 				Junior   Senior
                   Animal Science			           Energy & Transportation		 Best of Show
                   Behavioral & Social Sciences		           Environmental Analysis		 Special Awards
                   Biochemistry			           Environmental Management
                   Cellular & Molecular Biology		           Mathematical Science
                   Chemistry	 			           Medicine & Health Sciences
                   Computer Science 			           Microbiology
                   Earth Science 			           Physics & Astronomy
                   Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering            Plant Science
                   Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical	           Team Projects

Sign on by going to the Regional Science Fair Registration Page

For More Information Contact:

Virginia Piedmont Regional Science Fair
Tel: 434-981-7541
Internet: volunteer@vprsf.org

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