2024 STEAM Fair

Do you love to explore and ask questions? People love to wonder, and that is the root of science! Please consider participating in this year’s STEAM Fair. We’d love to hear about all your ideas.

All Torrance Unified School District students are invited and encouraged to submit a project for the 2024 STEAM Fair.  Projects will be presented at all elementary school sites in late February according to this schedule, and then selected projects will proceed to be displayed at our districtwide event on February 29, 2024 at Torrance High School. 

Our District is proud to offer this annual fair to help emphasize STEAM, and give students the opportunity to apply and practice their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills, while approaching their projects with a creative, or Artistic, perspective. This perspective is based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) where students are encouraged to focus not just on results, but on their process, one that includes trial and error, divergent thinking, dynamic problem solving, and plenty of perseverance.  

For more information about the 2024 STEAM Fair including rules, project details, examples, and awards please visit our TUSD STEAM Fair website. 

Anza Elementary STEAM Fair 

Virtual Submission Deadline: January 28th, 2024

STEAM Fair and Awards Ceremony: February 8, 2024

 

Do you love to explore and ask questions? People love to wonder, and that is the root of science!

Please consider participating in this year’s STEAM Fair. We’d love to hear about all your ideas.

Interested in participating in the 2024 Anza STEAM Fair? Please submit your entry form by Friday December 22nd, 2023.  Important details and notifications will be sent to the email provided in the entry form.

Click here to submit an ENTRY FORM

OVERVIEW

Torrance Unified School District (TUSD) emphasizes STEAM for science, where students will be applying and practicing their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math skills, but approaching their projects with a creative, or Artistic, perspective (the “A” in STEAM).  This perspective is based on the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) where students are encouraged to focus not just on results, but on their process, one that includes trial and error, divergent thinking, dynamic problem-solving and plenty of perseverance.

All elementary students in the Torrance Unified School District are invited and encouraged to submit a project for this year’s STEAM Fair. 

  • TK/K/1st Collections or Invention
  • 2nd/3rd Invention
  • 4th/5th Experimental Design or Invention

The Anza Elementary first place award recipient in each grade for each category will move on to be recognized in the TUSD District STEAM Fair.

TUSD is encouraging all students to submit an Invention!  The Invention category will also be eligible to compete in the South Bay Regional Invention Convention, state, national, and global Invention Conventions.  In recent years, Anza Elementary has had a number of students move on to state and national invention conventions!

 

PROJECT INFO

The TUSD STEAM Fair website has the links for all three STEAM fair project categories. Within each project, there are recorded videos to help parents and students at home. There are also packets that TUSD have put together for student to use and guide them through the scientific thinking process. Feel free to make a copy and use this excellent resource for your project submission.

 

 

General Information

Anza Elementary will be holding our 2024 STEAM Fair in-person with the awards ceremony to follow in the cafeteria.  More details will be sent to the email provided in the entry form.

IMPORTANT DATES

STEAM Fair virtual submission: Sunday, January 28th, 2024

STEAM Fair in-person submission, judges evaluation, and interview: Tuesday and Wednesday, February 6-7th, 2024
Each student will have an in-person meeting scheduled with the judges
In-person interviews will take place between ~4-7pm

Please bring your projects to your scheduld in-person interview

STEAM Fair and Awards Ceremony: Thursday, February 8, 2024
STEAM Fair doors open at 5:30pm
Awards Ceremony begins at 6:15pm

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND WHAT TO EXPECT

1) Please follow the Project Info guidelines. In order to guide you through the process, please use the packet in your specific project category.

 

2) Each student will create a physical display board for the in-person STEAM fair.  Please consider reviewing the links above to see the prompts for the display board.

Displaying photos of students conducting their experiments is strongly encouraged.

If you are a finalist moving on to the TUSD STEAM Fair, TUSD requires you to submit a printed Inventors Log, a prototype, and the physical display board.

3) Kindergartners and first-graders are not expected to be tech-savvy. We encourage hand-written work.

4) The main goal of our STEAM Fair is to give students a way to showcase and share their science projects. We invite all students from the Anza Elementary community to attend the fair.

5) Each student will have a brief in-person meeting scheduled with the judges as part of their oral presentation. Please review the Oral Presentation section of the Scoring Rubric to prepare for it. (Go to Project Info on the TUSD Steam Fair website, then click on the corresponding topic for your student's category, near the bottom of the page, you can find the specifications, rules and rubric).

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

  1. Projects from past Anza Elementary Virtual STEAM Fairs:

       2. Rules and Regulations from the TUSD Steam Fair website