General Information - Science and Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH)

The 2022 Science & Engineering Fair of Houston will be in person at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Students will need a physical display board.
The registration fee and the number of projects each school/district is allowed to advance have been set back to the 2020 numbers due to the limited space in the exhibit hall.
All Schools and students should begin their registration no later than December 1, 2021.
All Schools/Districts advancing projects to SEFH must finalize their online registration and have students confirm their categories and submit their projects to the SRC through Scieenteer on or before January 28, 2022.
The Judge Criteria Sheet has been modified to match the one used by ISEF.
The categories for 2022 have been updated to reflect a better alignment to TXSEF and ISEF Categories.
Changes to SEFH categories may be found using the following link: #Project-Categories

NEW: A Risk Assessment Form 3 is required for all projects that involve human participant testing of any project involving student- designed inventions, prototypes or consumer products. In addition, IRB review and pre-approval is required if the project involves more than the student researcher or any introduction of a human variable or factor in the testing of a consumer product/invention/prototype/application (e.g., amount of sleep, strength or endurance of the tester, etc.).
NEW: Human capillary/blood collection (i.e. finger stick) of the student researcher to themself is exempt. However, blood collection from any other human participants must be reviewed and approved by an IRB.
Projects involving culturing of microorganisms still must be done in a lab, and will now require Qualified Scientist Form 2 (Scienteer will add this form automatically).
Projects involving genome editing that include alteration of germline cells, insertion of gene drives, use of rapid trait development systems (RTDS) etc., must be considered BSL-2 and conducted in a Regulated Research Institution and approved by the institutions IBC.
Human Participant Studies done in a regulated research institution such as a university, must have IRB pre-approval from that institution.
Projects involving the testing of student-created Medical Devices on humans MUST be done in a regulated research institution.

Students may conduct a science project individually or in teams (max 3 students/team.) If students on a team go to different schools, they must turn in the Mixed Team Participation Form and compete under only one of the schools.

SEPTEMBER 2021

JANUARY 2022

FEBRUARY 2022

SRC Finalization, all projects must be cleared to compete at SEFH no later than February 7, 2022 by 5:00 PM.
Project Check-in, all projects must check-in at the GRB between 2:00PM – 7:00 PM, February 25, 2022
Judging Begins – February 26, 2022

All registration are to be completed online through Scineteer.
Follow the online steps (Fair Administrator role), select your winners and finalize before the deadline of January 28, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Make sure all winners are selected before finalizing.
School finalization can not be undone.
All students advancing to SEFH MUST BE finalized by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022.

Late entries will not be accepted at Student Check-In.

SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT:
January 28 2022, 5:00 PM

WRITING CONTEST:
January 28 2022, 5:00 PM

POSTER CONTEST:
January 28 2022, 5:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center,
Hall E,
1001 Avenida De Las Americas,
Houston, TX 77010

Directions: For driving directions please click here.

Parking: For information regarding parking please click here.