STEM Outreach

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Educators' Guidebook

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Online Student Registration 

Please complete forms in the registration packet before submitting. Online application is required for all students. 

Due date: Feb. 6, 2025 

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Registration Packets  

Updated Nov. 2024. Choose the appropriate packet based on students' grade level. 

Registration packets are due by Feb. 6, 2025 

• Junior Division Registration Packet (grades 5-8)
• Senior Division Registration Packet (grades 9-12) 
• Determining Project Categories (for all grades) 

We invite all members of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to serve as judges.

Interested in serving as a judge? Register here. 

Contact India Ballard with questions. 

Helpful resources for facilitating science and engineering projects. 

• Brain Pop video on the scientific process
• Engineering design process
• How to do a science fair project
• Problem-based learning student templates
• Real world applications for science in the classroom
• Science fairs have lost their way
• Science fairs aren't so fair

• biology,
• marine biology,
• chemistry,
• environmental geosciences,
• engineering,
• computer programming and
• more!  

You’ll also see what it’s like to study these majors in college. Activities may also include tours of companies or field work at the Stono Preserve and Grice Marine Laboratory. 

Registration for STEM 360 (2025) is now open. The registration fee is $300. All rising 10, 11, and 12 graders are welcome to register for the program. Applicants will be reviewed until the program reaches capacity (18). Please complete the online registration by June 13, 2025.

Important Information and Dates 

• Sessions are held Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18, 2025, daily, from 10am-4pm.
• Registration fee: $300
• Application and Payment Deadline: June 13, 2025

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until a course reaches capacity (18). We will follow up and notify all applicants of their enrollment status within one week of receiving the online registration. Once your application has been processed, we will email you a complete timeline, program details, a checklist, and the remaining paperwork.

• Registration: 2025 STEM 360 Registration
• Payment: 2025 STEM 360 Payment
  
  
  
  

Late Applications 

Applications may still be accepted after the June 13 deadline, if space remains available in the program. Contact ballardi@cofc.edu to determine availability.

• Refund Deadline: Friday, June 27, 2025

If you decide to withdraw from the program before June 27, the refund deadline, you will receive a full refund. No refunds will be issued after June 27, 2025.