Science & Technology · May 25, 2022 · C.B. Greenberg

ISEF 2022

Students have learned first and foremost to gather informed (meaning fact-based and rigorously obtained) information from scientific sources.

A year ago, I introduced you to the Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF at https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/). I wrote (archived for 5/31/21 at https://www.murrysvillelibrary.org) that the Society for Science, whose program this is, is “a champion for science, dedicated to expanding scientific literacy, effective STEM education and scientific research.” The Fair was entirely virtual in May 2021 because of COVID-19. In 2022 it was a complex hybrid, May 4-5 for virtual judging, week of May 9 for on-site judging and other events, in Atlanta, GA. There were 1750 high schoolers and 1410 projects from 63 countries. There were over 450 virtual judges, including me, as well as about 275 on site in Atlanta, and more than 50 participating both ways. Judging is hard w…