Registration

NEW APPLICATION PROCESS.
Please follow all steps carefully.
You must attend all three days of the Science Fair.

Download .pdf version of GVRSF 2010 Registration pamphlet.

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Click Here for the Online Registration
(available January 25, 2011)

1. In order for the GVRSF Committee to consider your application to participate, the following 2 (two) steps MUST be completed NO LATER THAN 3:00 pm, March 8, 2011.
  i) The on-line application to participate must be submitted complete with project summary. When your registration is submitted successfully you will be provided with an ID number. Write this down.
  ii)The signed parental/teacher consent form AND payment (cheque only) must be received by H.R. MacMillan Space Centre by 3pm March 8, 2011 either via mail (postmarked no later than March 4, 2011) OR drop off to the address below
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
1100 Chestnut St.
Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
*Open from 10am-3pm Monday to Friday and 10am-5pm weekends and holidays.
*Please indicate “GVRSF” on all envelopes mailed or dropped off.
**Please note that Science World is no longer the drop off location.

2. The online application form is available here. Once you have submitted your online application
form you must print the parental/teacher consent form and submit
the completed form with payment to finish the application process
(No later than 3 pm, March 8, 2011). If the project is a group project,
both students must complete the application form together (there
is space for partner’s information). Do not submit the application
form twice.

Mail signature form to:
Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair
c/o H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
1100 Chestnut St.
Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9

3. The online application form will only be available from January 26 – March 8, 2011 at 3:00 pm.

4. You will need the following information to complete your online application:
• Name, grade, age, gender, complete home address and email for each student.
• Name of teacher, full school name, and school phone number and fax number.
• Project details including title and exhibit division (see page 10 of the GVRSF 2010 Registration pamphlet for a description of each project division, or visit this page on the SFF website).
• A text-only summary of your project (no more that 500 words), which can be cut-and-pasted into the application form. This abstract is very important for judging purposes.

5. The registration fee is $40 per student. Therefore a two person project is $80. Cheques only - no cash will be accepted. Cheques need to be made payable to the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair. (No post-dated cheques will be accepted)

6. A T-shirt can be ordered at the time of registration (cost $10). If you wish to order a T-shirt, payment must be made with the application and size ordered must be noted when applying on-line.

7. If your project is accepted to participate in the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair, a complete confirmation package will be mailed to your school to the attention of your sponsor teacher. This package contains important information regarding the schedule of the Fair and safety regulations. If this package is not at the school by April 1, please email chair@gvrsf.ca.

Click Here for the Online Registration

IMPORTANT NOTES
• See page 9 of the GVRSF 2010 Registration pamphlet for the limits for the maximum number of applications per school that can be submitted to the GVRSF.
• Please submit signed consent form together with payment.
• Group projects: please submit both signed consent forms together with payment.
• Acceptance to the Science Fair is at the sole discretion of the GVRSF Committee.
• Applicants NOT accepted will be informed by email Monday March 21, 2011 and payment will be returned.