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Science Fair 2025

This year, Gunston Middle School will be holding its annual Science Fair on Thursday, January 16th, 2025. All sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students may participate in the GMS Science Fair. The top competitors will be eligible to participate in the Northern Virginia Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The science fair is not mandatory, but all eighth grade students need to complete an independent capstone science project. Their science fair project can be used as their independent capstone science project.  All work for the science fair must be done at home or during office hours with a teacher after school.

Students who are interested in competing and having their project judged must research their idea and communicate their interest to their science teacher by Friday, October 11th. Once committed, your science teacher will enroll you in the GMS Science Fair Canvas Course. The first meeting for participating students will be held on Wednesday, October 16th, at 2:40 pm in Mr. Hiebert’s room 123A.

If you have any questions, please contact your science teacher, or the Science Fair Director, Peter Hiebert, at peter.hiebert@apsva.us.

GMS Science Fair 2024-2025 Timeline

GMS Science Fair 2024-2025 Timeline

Task Due Date
Project Idea & Commitment to Science Teacher Friday, October 11, 2024
Science Fair Participant Student Meeting Wednesday, October 16, 2024from 2:40 to 3:10 pm in Room 123A
All Forms due  (including research plan) Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Conduct Experiment INDEPENDENTLY All Data Collected by Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Complete Data Analysis, Graphing, & Conclusion Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Final Science Project Due (Project Board) Wednesday, January 8, 2024
Practice Presenting Project in Class Thursday and Friday, January 9 & 10
Science Fair AFTER SCHOOL! Thursday,  January 16, 20252:40 to 4:10 pm

Science Fair Guidelines

The Science Fair has strict guidelines for participation, these include submitting the following forms by Tuesday, October 29th, 2024:

  • Form 1 –   Adult Sponsor Checklist
  • Form 1A – Student Checklist
  • Form 1B – Approval Form
  • Form C –  Risk Assessment (General Safety)
  • A complete Research Plan with a minimum of 3 sources

Due to safety reasons, projects involving human subjects (even fingerprints), vertebrate animals, microbiology and/or hazardous chemicals are not allowed this school year.  

State Level Qualifiers

Students who qualify to take their science fair project to the state-level and are in 7th or 8th grade are eligible to compete in the Virginia Junior Academy of Science (VJAS). Students who choose this option will be required to write their science experiment in the form of a research paper. Please visit the following websites for additional information: http://VJAS.org and https://www.apsva.us/curriculum/science/. If a student’s paper is accepted, he or she will be invited to present their paper to a panel of science judges at the VJAS symposium. Students have until January 7, 2025 to let their science teacher know if they choose to participate in VJAS.

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