Dates & Deadlines
Updated 07/26/2024
STEAM Day with the Flint Firebirds @ Dort Financial Center
February 22, 2025
Game @ 7:00 PM, Dort Financial Center
sponsored by: Genesee Educational Consultant Services
*Option to show off your project and have feedback before the fair, not required to attend.
Each student that brings a project will get free admission to the game! There will be judging and prizes given to students along with other STEAM activities.
Setup is from 5:30 - 6:00 PM.
Project display with public and judges is from 6:00 - 6:45 PM.
Additional activities will take place during intermissions.
Each student must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets outside of the student are not provided by the FRSEF.
- Your ticket as a student with a project will be paid by the FRSEF and Firebirds
Middle + High School Fair @ UM-Flint Riverfront Center
Elementary Fair @ Sloan Museum of Discovery
February 1, 2025
Deadline for Submission of SRC Forms Requiring Pre-Approval**
Projects requiring pre-approval that are not submitted by February 1 will not be allowed entry into the FRSEF.
March 7, 2025
Deadline for Registration
Friday - Saturday, March 21 - 22, 2025
2025 Flint Regional Science and Engineering Fair (Preliminary Schedule)
Friday
- 12:00 - 3:00 School setup (by appointment)
- 3:00 - 6:00 Project setup (open to all)
Saturday - High School
- 7:15 - 8:15 Setup (for special circumstances, and by prior request only)
- Setup is only allowed during the allocated times and must be complete by the end of the setup window for your division. Plan accordingly.
- All Senior Projects must be set up by 8:15, regardless of Judging Pod.
- Setup is only allowed during the allocated times and must be complete by the end of the setup window for your division. Plan accordingly.
- 8:15 Announcement of Senior Finalists
- 8:45 - 10:00 Challenger Judging
- Line up in the Challenger line.
- Your judge will meet you in line and you will walk them to your project.
- Following judging, your judge will dismiss you.
- Your judge will meet you in line and you will walk them to your project.
- Please repeat meeting a judge multiple times to gather more feedback and show off your work!
- Line up in the Challenger line.
- 8:45 - 12:45 Finalist Judging
- Arrive by 8:30
- Line up in the Finalist line
- You will be let in as a group and walk to your project and remain at your project until dismissed.
- Please remain at your project until dismissed, there will be multiple judges
- Display items can be brought in => prototypes, model, graph print offs, pictures, etc
- Must fit within our D&S Guidelines: https://www.flintsciencefair.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FRSEF_DisplaySafetyChecklist.pdf
- After dismissal from Judging, stay close for the announcement of the Super Finalists.
- 2:00 - 6:00 Public Viewing
- 6:00 - 7:00 Awards Ceremony
Saturday - Middle School
- 9:00 Announcement of Finalists
- 8:15 - 9:15 Setup (for special circumstances, and by prior request only)
- Setup is only allowed during the allocated times and must be complete by the end of the setup window for your division. Plan accordingly.
- Setup is only allowed during the allocated times and must be complete by the end of the setup window for your division. Plan accordingly.
- 9:15 - 9:45 Junior Challenger Judging
- Arrive by 9:00
- Line up in the Challenger line.
- Your judge will meet you in line and you will walk them to your project.
- Following judging, your judge will dismiss you
- 9:45 - 12:15 Junior Finalist Judging
- Arrive by 9:00
- Line up in the Finalist line
- You will be let in as a group and walk to your project and remain at your project until dismissed.
- Please remain at your project until dismissed, there will be multiple judges
- 2:00 - 6:00 Public Viewing
- 6:00 - 7:00 Awards Ceremony
May 10 - 16 2025
International Science & Engineering Fair - Columbus, OH
Top award winners from the FRSEF and student observers will represent the FRSEF at the world's largest and most competitive science fair - we expect to win!
Thursday May 15 - Public Viewing + Education Outreach Day => view the top projects in the world (teachers => bring your students to ISEF with the FRSEF!)
**SRC forms for pre-approval can be submitted any time ahead of the submission deadline. Submit forms early for faster feedback.
- Examples of projects that require pre-approval: Humans, Vertebrate Animals, Human/Animal Tissue, PHBAs (blood, bodily fluids, bacteria)
- Reach out with pre-approval and SRC questions to director@flintsciencefair.org.
March 1, 2025
Deadline for Submission of SRC Forms Requiring Pre-Approval**
Projects requiring pre-approval that are not submitted by February 11 will not be allowed entry into the FRSEF.
April 11, 2025
Deadline for Registration
Thursday, April 24, 2025
2025 Flint Regional Science and Engineering Elementary Fair (preliminary schedule)
- 8:50 - 9:15 Judge Arrival Window
- 9:15 - 9:35 Judge Orientation
- 9:10 - 9:45 AM Project Setup
- 9:45 - 12:30 Judging Pods
- Students will be assigned Pods
- Pod A: 9:45 - 10:30
- Pod B: 10:40 - 11:30
- Pod C: 11:40 - 12:30
- 12:30 - 1:40 Awards @ Longway Planetarium
- Group 1: 12:30 - 1:00
- Group 2: 1:10 - 1:40
**SRC forms for pre-approval can be submitted any time ahead of the submission deadline. Submit forms early for faster feedback.
- Examples of projects that require pre-approval: Humans, Vertebrate Animals, Human/Animal Tissue, PHBAs (blood, bodily fluids, bacteria)
- Reach out with pre-approval and SRC questions to director@flintsciencefair.org.
