California Science and Engineering Fair Foundation

The Foundation plans, funds, operates, and promotes the California Science and Engineering Fair, an annual event in which the best science and engineering students in grades 6-12 throughout the entire State of California are brought together to be recognized and honored, and to form communities with each other. The Foundation aspires to encourage all eligible students, regardless of socioeconomic status or geographic location, to develop their own scientific and engineering investigations and to participate in local science fairs leading to the California Science and Engineering Fair and beyond. The Foundation also aspires to increase communication and cooperation within the broader science fair community, both within and outside of California, on issues of concern to all science fairs such as expanding student participation and enhancing the student experience during that participation.

The goals of the California Science and Engineering Fair Foundation are to promote scientific and engineering literacy and curiosity, encourage scientific and engineering accomplishment, and generate an appreciation for the processes by which scientists and engineers push back the frontiers of the unknown.

Goal One: To make the California Science and Engineering Fair the premier event that the students in the State of California deserve.

Goal Two: To provide funding to students who are geographically or economically disadvantaged in participation in the California Science and Engineering Fair.

Goal Three: To promote communication within the community of science fair organizers nationwide so as to benefit students throughout the country by encouraging their own scientific and engineering accomplishment through participation in science fairs.