Welcome to the North-West New Brunswick Regional STEM Fair!

Important Dates

• Registration opens March 1, 2023
• Registration closes March 31, 2023
• Regional STEM Fair returns in-person – April 13, 2023 – Location: Richard J. Currie Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

Who’s Eligible?

• Participating students from ASD-North and ASD-West (projects must have qualified from the District Fairs), private schools, and home school.
• Max 2 people per project
• Grades 6-12

Resources

Check out mySTEMspace for ideas to get started, categories, project library (previous years STEM projects) and more.

How to Start Your Project.

• Different types of projects:

  • Discovery – these projects ask a question and involve research and/or experiments to find an answer
  • Innovation – these projects create, design, or build something new to solve a problem

• Challenges and Topics – Choose a Challenge. The best project ideas are something you’re passionate about!

  Check out these different Challenges for topics that might inspire you.

  • Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

    My project helps ensure food security, sustainability or competitiveness in agriculture, fisheries or food production.

  • Curiosity and ingenuity

    My project helps improve our understanding or address a problem in an area of STEM not covered by the other challenges.

  • Digital Technology

    My project helps improve our quality of life or transform existing products and services through digital devices, methods or systems.

  • Disease and Illness

    My project helps enhance our diagnosis, treatment or understanding of disease, or the management of physical or mental illness.

  • Energy

    My project helps improve our use of current energy sources, enable the transition to alternative energy sources, or reduce our energy footprint.

  • Environment and Climate Change

    My project helps ensure the quality of water, air, soil or the diversity of living things, or manage the impact of climate change.

  • Health and Wellness

    My project helps prevent disease or promote physical, social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, or intellectual wellbeing.

  • Natural Resources

    My project helps ensure the sustainable management, use, reuse or recycling of Earth’s finite or renewable natural resource.

• Initiate and Plan 

  – This is the step where anything is possible. Dream big. Follow your passions. Ask questions. What do you want to explore?My-STEM-Idea-Brainstorm.pdf (mystemspace.ca)

• Perform and Record

  Get messy and dive into your project! This is where you test your discovery or innovation plans.

• Analyze and Interpret

  Now it’s time to look at your results. What happened and why?

• Exhibit and Experience

• This is when you tell your story, sharing what you learned and where you’ll go next!

• Safety and Ethics 

  Your safety is important. When working on your idea, it is important to always put safety first. It is your responsibility to take steps to keep yourself and others safe. Safety-in-STEM-Projects.pdf (mystemspace.ca)

  Ethics deal with social agreements on right and wrong. In the STEM community, there are rules on how to work in an ethical, or right, way. In general, your project should never cause harm people or animals. It is your responsibility to make sure you are doing ethical STEM when working on your idea. Ethics-in-STEM-Projects.pdf (mystemspace.ca)

• Mentors 

  We all learn from experts and build on their ideas.

  Finding a mentor to support your project can be a great way to take it to the next level. Whether it is learning from them, getting access to supplies and tests, or just having their feedback and guidance, a mentor can be a valuable part of your project!

• Resources Documents

  All of the mySTEMspace resources in one place.  Check out these resources for more information!

  NB STEM Fair Project Evaluation Rubric

   

Registration

Opens March 1, 2023.