Science Fair News

The Science Fair AGM will be held on 16th March at 4pm in the May Bain Room, Whangarei Central Library, Rust Avenue. All Science & Technology Teachers should plan to attend. This is your opportunity to influence the Science Fair Committee! [Read More]

The Central Northland Science Fair Committee have decided that the 2022 Science Fair will see the reintroduction of the Research Category for all year groups (7-13). The Research category will be renamed Information Research and details of the Judging Criteria will be updated on the Website as they become available. [Read More]

Dr Gary Payinda was going to be the speaker at The Central Northland Science Fair 2021. As the fair ended, being held online, you can read his speech welcoming student scientists below... Kia ora, future scientists. Ko Gary ahau. I’m your speaker for the night, and I want to thank you for the next 8 minutes of your time. I also want to thank the organisers of the Central Northland [Read More]

Congratulations to all our 2021 winners! For the full list of winners and results, check the 2021 table on our results page... Read Dr Gary Payinda's speech... Sponsor’s Videos Please watch the videos from our sponsors below to find out who our 2021 Science Fair winners are. Welcome by Chairperson, Allister Gilbert Major Awards Major Awards sponsored by Golden Bay [Read More]

Thank you for your patience. Our Judges have now completed the last few categories and we are ready to deliver the winners certificates and awards to the schools concerned. We will be delivering by hand and hope to have the certificates and awards to the schools by the end of Friday 5th November. Well done to all the Students who participated in the 2021 Central Northland Science and Technology [Read More]

As you are aware, COVID-19 continues to place obstacles in the path of this year's Science Fair and the Fair was transferred to an online event. The results should be out soon. Unfortunately, some of our Judges are struggling to complete their allocation on time and we are still awaiting the final few results. The good news is that the Student Goody Bags are packed and (I hope) will have been [Read More]

As you are aware, COVID-19 has put a big obstacle in the path of this year's Science Fair and the Fair was transferred to an online event. The results should be out next week. Unfortunately, some of our Judges are struggling to complete their allocation on time and we are still awaiting their results. The good news is that the Student Goody Bags are packed and (I hope) will be delivered (under [Read More]

Thank you for having already registered your exhibits for the Fair. What we would like now is for you to send us the exhibits in a digital format. You may choose one of the following three formats to submit your students’ exhibits online: 1.  A video of the presentation board with voice over 2.  A PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation with voice over/notes pages 3.  A .pdf presentation [Read More]

Due to Aotearoa New Zealand going into lockdown, the Science Fair Committee has sadly had to postpone the Science Fair. We have not been able to rebook Forum North, and so we have now decided instead to run the 2021 Fair online and to ask students to send us a digital submission, similar to our approach last year. We are very keen to try to run the fair in some capacity as the students have put in [Read More]

Due to Aotearoa going into lockdown, the Science Fair Committee has sadly had to postpone the Science Fair. We are not entirely sure how we will be able to proceed but are currently considering two main options. The first being that if we can move to Level 2 (or lower) relatively quickly, we will try and secure Forum North and run the fair there. Obviously, we will need to observe the correct [Read More]