Who's Who and Sponsors
	Sponsors The companies and individuals who help keep the fair running year to year. Management Committee Who are the special people who run the fair? Student Advisory Board Which students across San Diego County are involved with the Student Advisory Board? What We Do: Our mission is to maintain a continuous process that encourages and rewards professional excellence, promotes educational enrichment, and provides unique opportunities for independent achievement in science and technology for the thousands of seventh through twelfth grade students of all private, parochial, and public schools of the Greater San Diego Region wishing to participate. Our organization is staffed by a team of dedicated officers, committee members, and award-winning students, all of whom work virtually year-round without compensation to plan, organized, and produce the Fair every spring. Since ther are no salaries and each of us operates out of our homes, without charge to the Fair, there is no administrative overhead. We are an independent community service organization, without funding or direction by state or local government, or by any of the school systems whose students we service. Thus, we do not spend tax dollars, nor is our work encumbered by external administrative policy changes. We have an annual budget of $80,000 which is dependent on private and corporate year-to-year donations of money, goods, and services. Although we have received major corporate funding from several sources in the past, we have no assurance of adequate future funding commitments. We are a registered tax-exempt, non-profit community service (501[C] 3) corporation (#23-733-2855). Our activities include: Training teachers and screeners in the procedures, standards, and regulations for science and engineering fair projects. Visiting classrooms to encourage and instruct teachers and students in the values and benefits of participation in science and engineering fair competition. Advising teachers and participating students, and assisting them in obtaining professional resources. Organizing and conducting screenings of thousands of student science and engineering fair projects in hundreds of San Diego city and San Diego and Imperial County schools, for selection of projects qualified to compete in the regional fair held in Balboa Park each spring. Maintaining a legion of hundreds of qualified volunteer judges from the professional and technical community to evaluate up to 1,000 projects in competition for awards and recognition at the regional fair. Preparing, publishing, printing, and distributing information and registration packets to hunderds of students; printing programs for the public, and advertising the Fair's schedule. Recruiting and organizing special award judging by professional, technical, institutional, and military organizations. Conducting the competition and exhibition, which includes: designing exhibition layout space by numbers of projects per category, coordinating use of buildings in Balboa Park, registering and orienting participants, providing lunches and tours for participating students, providing refreshments for judges, conducting judging, providing for and safe-guarding public display of projects, and implementing setup/teardown of displays and furnishings. Ordering and purchasing ribbons and awards, and planning and producing the presentation of awards for regional fair winners. Overseeing and facilitating advancement of first-place and sweepstakes winners to further levels (state and international) of science fair competitions