How will the judging work?
Judging at the California State Science Fair means personal interviews with the judges. Every participant at the Fair will be interviewed by several Fair judges, and may during the same judging time see various Special and/or Recognition Awards judges. Since the arrangement at the State Science Fair may be different from your county or regional fair, let me break this into several areas. Schedule: All judging will take place on Tuesday morning as follows: • 08:30 am First Judging Session • 10:30 am Break • 11:00 am Final Judging Session • 12:30 pm Judging Ends All interviews between judges and participants will take place only during the two judging sessions. Students must be present for the entire time interval. Your judging panel will be meeting in the judges’ room during the break and after the end of the judging period, so no other interviews will be required of participants (with the single exception of candidates for the CSSF Student of the Year Award, whose interviews are schedu
