Special awards provide a unique opportunity to recognize a student, teacher or school for outstanding work related to your interest or industry. These awards also provide motivation for further investigation in these areas. Individuals and organizations provide their own award wording and judge(s), and a representative is invited to present the award to the recipient at the Awards Ceremony. Awards may include such items as certificates, cash prizes, gifts, trips, school grants and student scholarships.  Existing award descriptions may be found on our AWARDS page. This recognition is much appreciated!

Please come help us make a difference…

                              … judge a science fair!

The 2025 Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair (GNOSEF) is being held IN-PERSON on Monday, February 17th to Monday, February 24th and we are in need of judges! The fair will be held at the Lavin-Bernick Center at Tulane University and is open to 6th-12th grade students in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Parking is provided at no cost by Loyola University.  Judges will need to pre-review/judge projects prior to students’ presentations the week of the fair. Category judging will take place on Tuesday, February 18th and Wednesday, February 19th IN-PERSON from 8am-12pm. Grand Award judging will take place Wednesday, February 19th and Thursday, February 20th over Zoom.

Judge registration is now closed. If you would like to still judge, please sign up on the volunteer form, let us know that you are available on Tuesday/Wednesday morning, and add that you would like to do Special Award judging in the comments.

If you would like to volunteer as a general volunteer or a safety judge, please sign up here. Thank you!!

A workshop will be offered in the fall of 2018 at Tulane University for teachers interested in participating in the 2019 Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair. Click on Read More to access link to Teacher Workshop page.