[CharterSchools] Local Students Create the Future at This Week's Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair at UNO

[charterschools at LACharter.org]

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Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair
Begins Tomorrow at UNO
 
 
WHAT: 
2015 Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair (GNOSEF)
Approximately 400 middle and high school students from Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes will display the results of their scientific inquiry at the 59th Annual Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair (GNOSEF), February 24-26 at the UNO Human Performance Center. Student exhibits will be on display to the public on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. Admission is free and open to the community. An awards ceremony will take place Saturday evening, Feb. 28, 5:00 – 7:30PM in the UNO Grand Ballroom.
 
GNOSEF encourages independent student research in science, technology, engineering and math. The Fair is open to any student nominated by their middle or high school within the designated parishes. Entrants fall into two divisions: Junior Division, comprised of middle school students (grades 6-8) and Senior Division, comprised of high school students (grades 9-12).
 
More than $60,000 in cash/non-cash awards, prizes, grants and scholarships provided by major sponsors, such as the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation and H. Britton Sanderford, will be awarded to GNOSEF 2014-2015 winners/teachers and schools, including a trip for four students and two teachers to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), which draws over 1,600 students from 70 countries with more than $4 million in cash awards and prizes. Selected category winners at the GNOSEF in New Orleans are also eligible to compete for state honors at the Louisiana Science and Engineering Fair (LSEF) held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, March 23-25, 2015, with those winners going on to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) to be held May 10-15, 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA.
 
Students and supporters will also have the opportunity to enter social media contests on Instagram and Twitter (@GNOSEF), talk about their projects, inspiration, schools and more, all using the hashtag #GNOSEF. 
 
WHERE:               
UNO Human Performance Center
2000 Lakeshore Drive (near Elysian Fields and Leon C. Simon)
 
WHEN:                 
Greater New Orleans Science & Engineering Fair Schedule:
Tuesday, February 24                     Noon – 5:30pm                 Load-in of student exhibits
Wednesday, February 25             9:00AM – 2:30PM            Judging of student exhibits
Wednesday, February 25             3:30PM – 5:30PM            Public viewing (Free to the public)
Thursday, February 26                   9:00AM – Noon               Public viewing (Free to the public)
Saturday, February 28                    5:00PM – 7:30PM             Awards Ceremony in the UNO Ballroom
 
VISUALS:             
Students loading in such projects as: “Hover Mania” or “When Life Gives You Rain, Make Rain Gardens”. Hundreds of displays showing the scientific work of the area’s best and brightest.
 
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Media Contact:                                                                On-site Contact at GNOSEF:
Ann Wills for GNOSEF                                                    Annette Oertling, Ph.D., GNOSEF Fair Director
504.494.3810                                                                      504.583.3657
ann at awillspr.com                                                          Annette at tulane.edu  
 
                  
It’s Time to Create the Future. The Challenge is On.
 
 
 

 



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