Virtual Science Fair Blog

Mon.  June 14, 2010

All certificates and award cheques have been mailed to the school in care of the registered teacher. Please inform me (via email larry@virtualsciencefair.com) of any errors. Please view the comments   HERE regarding awards [...]

Wed.  June 2, 2010

2010 VSF Results Posted HERE.  Please read the Remarks related to Judging and Awards [...]

Mon. May 31, 2010

Results of the 2010 VSF will be posted Wed.  [...]

Thur. May 27, 2010

Checking Spelling of Names Used on the Certificates

The student names printed on certificates will be those submitted on the team registration forms. Teachers can verify the correct spelling etc. by entering the Teacher Zone. If you wish to make any changes please send me a note including team number and the corrections. The [...]

Wed. May 26, 2010

Judging is nearly complete.  Barring any unexpected problems, results should be posted [...]

Sunday May 16, 2010

Judging continues slow but sure. I have nearly completed the second review of the projects, this time taking into account the teacher evaluations. Later this week I will be asking some judges to review selected projects in more detail.

The goal is to have the final results available by the end [...]

Sunday May 9, 2010

The first review of projects continues.  Some points of note:

Some projects do not display using the URL www.virtualsciencefair.org/2010/project_userid and thus can not be judged.
Many projects do not provide the sources of the images used.  See: Citations
Some projects failed to reduce the file size of images. See: Image File Size
There are about 10 teachers [...]

Thursday May 6, 2010

Teachers Please Note:

As emphasized in many emails, the Rules section, and the blog the project must display using the URL www.virtualsciencefair.org/2010/userid (where userid is the team/project userid)

This means the top page must have been named index.htm

When judging your students projects please do so using this URL or access the projects from the Teacher [...]

Wednesday May 5, 2010

After eliminating incomplete projects from grades K-3 and 10-12, the number of projects remaining is 502. I will be working on the first review of the 4-6 and 7-9 projects today and Thursday.

Teachers are urged to submit their evaluations as soon [...]

Tuesday May 4, 2010

The original 609 projects have been reduced to 539 as a result of withdrawal notices from teachers. Teachers are urged to send a listing of any students that did not complete their project. As well, teachers are reminded that Teacher Evaluations are due May [...]