Parent's Rewards

The reward for a parent should be the pride and satisfaction of seeing your child complete a fun and educational science project.  Seeing it displayed at school or beyond is a bonus. 

SARSEF’s goal is to provide awards to as many students as possible.  These include trophies, ribbons,  certificates, merchandise, and/or cash.  Top awards  go to 5^th - 8^th grade students which are selected to compete for travel to Washington DC for the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Competition and the top few High School students are selected to travel to the International Science and Engineering Fair for further competition.  One of our young competitors, now enrolled in college, amassed $40,000 in scholarship funding through her Science Fair activities.  Another student has finished his degree at Stanford University and gives credit to the Science Fair for his Stanford Scholarship. 

But, the most important reward is the preparation of your student for the future.  Certainly not everyone wants to be or will be a scientist, doctor, mathematician, engineer, or technologist, but the development of logic and thought process in doing a science fair project will help any student, no mater what the career field of interest may be in the future.  It also is a big help in preparing for the AIMS testing!