2024 CLES PTA Science Fair
Friday, April 26, 2024 at CLES
Registration: February 22-April 19
The 2024 CLES PTA Science Fair Handbook has all the details, guidelines, schedule, and requirements.
Have your project idea ready? Register your project here by April 19!
Interested in helping at the Science Fair as a judge or general helper? Sign up here!
★ Important Dates
February 22-29 — Science Fair EARLY BIRD registration
April 19 — last day to register for the Science Fair & complete your project
April 26 — SCIENCE FAIR DAY
6-6:30pm — set up
6:30-8pm — judging and raffle prizes
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Questions about the Science Fair
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To encourage everyone to particpate, the judges will provide constructive feedback but not rank the projects. So there will be no 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes.
Instead, every participant will receive a prize for participating.
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To encourage kids’ curiousity about science/engineering and to advocate doing their own research to understand the underlying knowledge.
The kids can learn, by preparing and presenting a small science fair project, to solve problems, be organized, work and communicate with others, be courageous at public speaking, and have fun.
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Yes! Up to 3 students can work together per project.
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Each participant in the sciene fair gets a ticket in the raffle to win various fun STEM prizes.
There willl be an EXTRA raffle for early bird registrants.
All raffles will take place at the Science Fair.
About our Keynote Speaker
Carissa Baker-Smith, MD MPH FAHA FACC FAAP (She/Her/Hers)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson Univesity
Director Pediatric Preventive Cardiology Program
Co-Director Nemours Center for Cardiovascular Research and Innovation
Senior Research Scientist
Nemours Children's Health
Dr. Baker-Smith is a board-certified Pediatric Cardiologist, director of Pediatric Preventive Cardiology and co-Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research and Innovation of the Nemours Cardiac Center, Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington Delaware. She earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Howard University in Washington DC and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She completed her pediatrics residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship training at Duke University, and she has a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She is in the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) funded studies. Dr. Baker-Smith also serves nationally in a variety of leadership roles within the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.
Topic: Preventing Heart Disease: Novel Approaches and Cool Therapies
My talk will highlight aspects of preventive cardiology (how we diagnose risk factors for heart disease, use mathematics and modeling to predict those at greatest risk and some of the therapies that have been developed to treat heart disease that make use of our basic understanding of how disease develops)
Questions about the Science Fair? Interested in volunteering at the fair? Please email Yang at science.fair@clespta.org