The Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair is an exciting and important San Diego community event that relies entirely on the generosity of our community's volunteers. Previous Fairs had about 800 science projects on display along with the 800+ 6-12th graders who produced them.

How can you help? The Fair always needs more judges.  For those who register, a detailed judging day agenda and directions to the Center will be sent to you a few weeks prior to the Fair.

Being a judge is actually a lot more fun than it sounds. It mostly requires listening to enthusiastic young kids tell you what they did for their project.

For anyone new to judging, there is a great deal of advice regarding "how to judge" and "what kinds of questions to ask" (see links below). Also, judging is done by teams, so there are typically experienced judges to assist someone new, should that need arise.

Most of the projects are done by 6th - 8^th graders so you don’t need to be a PhD (although we do appreciate having PhDs on our judging teams!). You do need a background in science, math, computers or engineering and a good knowledge of the scientific method.

Please complete the Judging Registration

Information about virtual judging will be sent to you a few weeks prior to the Fair.