The Path to State Starts Locally
Start Here: Participate
There are six Regional Science Fair organizations located across Massachusetts. Participation at the State Fair is based on projects that are approved for participation at the Regional level.
High School Grades 9-12 Submit projects and find the following on MAHS.zfairs.com High School Manual High School Paperwork Packet Regional Information | Middle School Grades 6-8 Submit projects and find the following on MAMS.zfairs.com Middle School Manual Middle School Paperwork Packet Regional Information |
Locate your region
Click the RED links below to see a full list of towns for each region and the corresponding event and contact information.
All parochial and private schools in Boston are in Southeastern Region 5.
Western
Region 1 »
| HS Host: Western New England University region1@scifair.com christian.salmon@wne.edu |
MS Host: Mass College of Liberal Arts region1@scifair.com |
- Adams
- Agawam
- Alford
- Amherst
- Ashfield
- Becket
- Belchertown
- Bernardston
- Blandford
- Buckland
- Charlemont
- Cheshire
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Chicopee
- Clarksburg
- Colrain
- Conway
- Cummington
- Dalton
- Deerfield
- East Longmeadow
- Easthampton
- Egremont
- Erving
- Florence
- Florida
- Gill
- Goshen
- Granby
- Granville
- Great Barrington
- Greenfield
- Hadley
- Hampden
- Hancock
- Hatfield
- Hawley
- Heath
- Hinsdale
- Holyoke
- Huntington
- Lanesboroug
- Lee
- Lenox
- Leverett
- Leyden
- Longmeadow
- Ludlow
- Middlefield
- Monroe
- Monson
- Montague
- Monterey
- Montgomery
- Mount Hermon
- Mt. Washington
- New Ashford
- New Marlboro
- New Salem
- North Adams
- Northampton
- Northfield
- Orange
- Otis
- Palmer
- Pelham
- Peru
- Petersham
- Pittsfield
- Plainfield
- Richmond
- Rowe
- Russell
- Sandisfield
- Savoy
- Sheffield
- Shelburne
- Shutesbury
- South Deerfield
- South Hadley
- Turners Falls
- Southampton
- Southwick
- Springfield
- Stockbridge
- Sunderland
- Tolland
- Tyringham
- Ware
- Warwick
- Washington
- Wendell
- West Springfield
- West Stockbridge
- Westfield
- Westhampton
- Whately
- Wilbraham
- Williamsburg
- Williamstown
- Worthington
Regional High Schools
- Amherst-Pelham
- Frontier
- Gateway
- Hampshire
- Hoosac Valley
- Minnechaug
- Mohawk Trail
- Monument Mountain
- Mount Everett
- Mount Greylock
- Pathfinder Reg. Voc.
- Pioneer Valley
- Ralph C. Mahar
- Taconic
- Turners Falls
- Wahconah
Central
Region 2 »
| HS Chair: Taryn Surabian taryn.surabian@wrsef.net |
MS Chair: TBD middleschool@scifair.com |
- Ashburnham
- Ashland
- Athol
- Auburn
- Barre
- Berlin
- Blackstone
- Bolton
- Boylston
- Brimfield
- Brookfield
- Charlton
- Clinton
- Devens
- Douglas
- Dudley
- East Brookfield
- Fiskdale
- Fitchburg
- Framingham
- Gardner
- Grafton
- Hardwick
- Harvard
- Holden
- Holland
- Holliston
- Hopedale
- Hopkinton
- Hubbardston
- Hudson
- Lancaster
- Leicester
- Leominster
- Lunenburg
- Marlborough
- Maynard
- Mendon
- Milford
- Millbury
- Millville
- New Braintree
- North Brookfield
- Northborough
- Northbridge
- Oakham
- Oxford
- Paxton
- Phillipston
- Princeton
- Royalston
- Rutland
- Shrewsbury
- South Lancaster
- Southborough
- Southbridge
- Spencer
- Sterling
- Still River
- Stow
- Sturbridge
- Sudbury
- Sutton
- Templeton
- Upton
- Uxbridge
- Wales
- Warren
- Webster
- West Boylston
- West Brookfield
- Westborough
- Westminster
- Whitinsville
- Winchendon
- Worcester
Regional High Schools
- Algonquin
- Assabet Valley
- Bay Path
- Blackstone-Millville
- Lincoln-Sudbury
- Montachusett
- Narragansett
- Nashoba
- Nipmuc
- Oakmont
- Quabbin
- Quoboag
- Shepherd Hill
- South Middlesex
- Tahanto
- Tantasqua
- Wachusett
Southwestern
Region 3 »
| HS Chair: Pallavi Naravane pallavinaravane@gmail.com |
MS Chair: Pallavi Naravane pallavinaravane@gmail.com |
- Acushnet
- Attleboro
- Berkeley
- Chartley
- Dartmouth
- Dighton
- Fairhaven
- Fall River
- Foxborough
- Franklin
- Lakeville
- Mansfield
- New Bedford
- Norfolk
- North Attleboro
- Norton
- Plainville
- Raynham
- Rehoboth
- Seekonk
- Somerset
- South Attleboro
- Swansea
- Taunton
- Westport
- Wrentham
Regional High Schools
- Apponequet
- Bristol-Plymouth
- Dighton-Rehoboth
- Diman Regional
- King Philip
Northeastern
Region 4 »
| HS Chair: Suzanne Stickley sstickley@pioneercss.org |
MS Chair: Akshay Kokil akshay_kokil@uml.edu |
- Acton
- Amesbury
- Andover
- Arlington
- Ashby
- Ayer
- Bedford
- Belmont
- Beverly
- Billerica
- Boxborough
- Boxford
- Bradford
- Burlington
- Byfield
- Cambridge
- Carlisle
- Chelmsford
- Chelsea
- Concord
- Danvers
- Devens
- Dracut
- Dunstable
- Essex
- Everett
- Georgetown
- Gloucester
- Groton
- Groveland
- Hamilton
- Hanscom Air Force Base
- Hathorne
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
- Lawrence
- Lexington
- Lincoln
- Littleton
- Lowell
- Lynn
- Lynnfield
- Malden
- Manchester
- Marblehead
- Medford
- Melrose
- Merrimac
- Methuen
- Middleton
- Nahant
- Newbury
- Newburyport
- North Andover
- North Chelmsford
- North Reading
- Peabody
- Pepperell
- Reading
- Revere
- Rockport
- Rowley
- Salem
- Salisbury
- Saugus
- Shirley
- Somerville
- South Hamilton
- Stoneham
- Swampscott
- Tewksbury
- Topsfield
- Townsend
- Tyngsboro
- Wakefield
- Waltham
- Watertown
- Wenham
- West Newbury
- Westford
- Wilmington
- Winchester
- Winthrop
- Woburn
Regional High Schools
- Acton-Boxborough
- Concord-Carlisle
- Greater Lawrence
- Greater Lowell
- Groton-Dunstable
- Hamilton-Wenham
- Masconomet
- Nashoba Valley Tech
- North Middlesex
- Northeast Metro Tech
- Pentucket
- Shawsheen Valley
- Triton
- Whittier Regional
Southeastern
Region 5 »
| HS Chair: Pat Monteith maregionV@gmail.com |
MS Chair: Erin McQuaid Erin.McQuaid@regiscollege.edu |
- Abington
- Avon
- Barnstable
- Bellingham
- Bourne
- Braintree
- Brewster
- Bridgewater
- Brockton
- Brookline
- Buzzards Bay
- Canton
- Carver
- Chatham
- Chestnut Hill
- Cohasset
- Cotuit
- Dedham
- Dennis
- Dover
- Duxbury
- East Bridgewater
- Eastham
- Easton
- Falmouth
- Freetown
- Halifax
- Hanover
- Hanson
- Harwich
- Hingham
- Holbrook
- Hull
- Hyannis
- Kingston
- Marion
- Marshfield
- Martha’s Vineyard
- Mashpee
- Mattapoisett
- Medfield
- Medway
- Middleborough
- Millis
- Milton
- Nantucket
- Natick
- Needham
- Newton
- Norwell
- Norwood
- Orleans
- Osterville
- Pembroke
- Plymouth
- Plympton
- Provincetown
- Quincy
- Randolph
- Raynham
- Rochester
- Rockland
- Sandwich
- Scituate
- Sharon
- Sherborn
- South Easton
- South Weymouth
- Stoughton
- Truro
- Walpole
- Wareham
- Wayland
- Wellesley
- Wellfleet
- West Bridgewater
- Weston
- Westwood
- Weymouth
- Whitman
- Yarmouth
Regional High Schools
- Blue Hills
- Bridgewater-Raynham
- Cape Cod Regional
- Dennis-Yarmouth
- Dover-Sherborn
- Martha’s Vineyard
- Nauset
- Old Colony Regional
- Old Rochester
- Silver Lake
- Southeastern Regional
- Upper Cape Cod Regional
- Whitman-Hanson
- All Boston parochial and
- private schools.
Boston Public Schools
Region 6 »
| HS Chair: Nicole Guttenberg nguttenberg@bostonpublicschools.org |
MS Chair: Nicole Guttenberg nguttenberg@bostonpublicschools.org |
- Allston
- Back Bay
- Bay Village
- Beacon Hill
- Brighton
- Charlestown
- Chinatown-Leather District
- Dorchester
- Downtown
- East Boston
- Fenway-Kenmore
- Hyde Park
- Jamaica Plain
- Mattapan
- Mid-Dorchester
- Mission Hill
- North End
- Roslindale
- Roxbury
- South Boston
- South End
- West End
- West Roxbury
Private and parochial schools within the City of Boston are included in Region V
Fair Dates and Locations
High School State Fair powered by Amazon April 9 at DCU, Worcester | Middle School State Fair powered by Cabot Corporation May 9 at Clark University, Worcester |
High School Regional Fairs Region 1: March 6 at Western New England University in Springfield Region 2: March 6 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Region 3: March 7 at Bristol Community College in Fall River Region 4: March 14 at Tufts in Medford Region 5: March 14 at Bridgewater State University Region 6: March 7 at Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury | Middle School Regional Fairs Region 1: April 15 at MA College of Liberal Arts in North Adams Region 2: March 31 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Region 3: March 7 at Bristol Community College in Fall River Region 4: April 4 at UMASS Lowell Region 5: March 7 at Regis College in Weston Region 6: March 7 at Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury |
The Judging Experience
Judges (professionals and academics in STEM) volunteer their time to review student projects. Judge scores are based on a student’s understanding of their project, not it’s sophistication. Review the Judges Rubric with your students to help them prepare for the experience.
Fair policies
All students, parents, teachers, and project sponsors should familiarize themselves with the program policies here, (https://scifair.com/category/rules-guidelines/) in addition to the Manuals found on the Grade-specific pages. All participants must adhere to the Ethics Statement.
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