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. Click on the RED text below the map to find regional fair contact information.

Scroll down for more information and resources.

Submit projects for participation and find regional event information at the links here:

Grades 6-8 start here: Middle School Statewide Review Site, MAMS.zfairs.com

Grades 9-12 start here: High School Statewide Review Site, MAHS.zfairs.com

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 »

High School Website » Middle School Website »
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 »

High School Website » Middle School Website »
HS Chair: Taryn Surabian
taryn.surabian@wrsef.net
MS Chair: Lisa Greenwald
greenwaldl@westboroughk12.org
  • 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 »

High School & Middle School Website »
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 »

High School Website » Middle School Website »
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 »

High School Website » Middle School Website »
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 »

High School & Middle School Website »
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

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