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November 28 - Dec 6: Students begin
to receive material about the school science fair
and the NVSF. Students will begin to research possible
topics and form research teams (1-3 members per
group).
December 7: Students shall decide upon
their research topics and members of their groups.
Their NVSF coordinator shall assign them a
Research Team number for BlackBoard.
December 8 - 14: Students begin to learn
how to become administrators of their BlackBoard
team site. Students shall create the opening forum
in their eDiary.
January 4: NVSF officially begins. Students
will begin conducting their own science fair project
research.
January 15: eMentors will begin to access
their team's eDiary and begin collaborating with
members of the research team. Students shall
prepare and upload a short video presentation for
eMentors. Teams shall create a new navigation button “video” and
attach a link to the video here. A
message to check out the video shall be sent to
the eMentor.
January – February: Each team shall
submit/upload 3 interim reports based on each stage
of their research; design and set-up, initial data
collection, and data analyses and conclusion for
experiment.
March 1: Students shall thank and bid farewell
to eMentors.
March 1 - 7: Students must complete
and upload all research report and ancillary information. Note: Teams
cannot make any further changes after this date.
*Students receive their display boards on March
1. These are due on March 7.*
March 9 - April 1: Local NVSF competitions
are held at each school.
April 7: Phase I winners from
all participating NVSF Schools are announced.
March 10 - April 24: School science fair
winners shall begin to update their BlackBoard research
site and make any recommended modifications. The
NVSF Project Manager shall create 2 more forums at
each team’s
BlackBoard site for Round
II and III of the virtual judging format.
April 25: eJudges will be
able to access their assigned Virtual Science Fair
team sites. Each eJudge will have one week to
review each contestant’s Blackboard site. (This
is the Review Round of the competition where the
eJudges read the research reports and view ancillary
information). eJudges shall complete the “Review
Rubric” and return by May 1.
April 29: The facilitator will pose 5
questions in the “Virtual Fair” forum
inside the team’s e-diary. Students will
have three days to answer. (April 30- May 1)
May 3: Judges review and assess
answers to the” Facilitator Questions”.
Two days to complete this process. Judges complete
second rubric. (May 3-4). Judges return The
Facilitator Questions Rubric by May 5.
May 4-5: Each judge will pose one
of their own questions under the forum called “The
Judge’s Final Questions.” Students
will have two days to respond.
May 6-7: Students must post complete
answers by midnight on May 7.
May 8-10: Judges complete final rubric, “The
Judge’s Final Questions” on these three
questions. Final Rubric needs to be sent by May
11.
May 14: Top 5 NVSF research teams are
announced for Phase II. These teams will compete
in the final “Champion’s
League”.
May 15-18: Champion’s League judges
will review all top 5 representatives’ sites
and material.
May 19: Judges will meet on Skype® (time
to be determined) for an online discussion to
determine rankings of top 5 NVSF projects.
May 21: Winners for Phase III are announced.
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