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Dear All! It is our greatest pleasure to extend this invitation to you and your children to participate in our new event SciFI - Science Fair International. This event is an attempt to nurture the scientific temper of young minds. In an attempt to promote the concept of week-end science, we bring to you this event, where children are free to exhibit any models [working or non-working] or any investigation or theoretical experiments or displays. Want to share or introduce any new concepts idea? Come share with us in SciFI-2010. This event is open to all school going children in Japan. Prior registration is required [see page 4,5 for more details on registration]. Dear Science Teachers and Dept. Heads! As you get into the first few months of curriculum, experiments and labs we encourage you to introduce this event to your students as a platform for the inquisitive and creative mind to meet peers with similar passions. You are also invited in case you would like to be the organiser of a small group from your school or are simply interested in seeing what the newest generation is learning and where we are heading.  Who knows you may catch a glimpse of a near future technology or be witness to the rise of a new school of thought! Looking forward for your participation! -- Organisers of SciFI—2010
For More information: Call Ravi: 080-3388-2865 (=SoftBank) or Chris: 090-7255-2105 or email: scifi@live-in-japan.com
Event Flow	General Instructions
10:00 – Reception, Assembly 10:00 ˜ 11:25 – Setting up Exhibition display 11:30 ˜ – Welcome Address / Key Speech 11:45 ˜ – Evaluation / Presentation 16:00 ˜ – Awards 16:30 ˜ – Vote of Thanks / Cleanup *The above times are tentative and are subject to change	* Entry Fee: FREE * To participate in the event prior registration on or before Nov 10, 2010 is required * Participation shall be either individual or group [group can have max 4 person]. If participating by group make sure all the participants are of same age and provide all participants name. * One entry per individual or group. * Exhibits could be of your choice and division, such as Biological, Physical, Chemical [for chemical—restricted to theoretical experiments] * Exhibits shall be prepared in advance and assembled for display on the day of the event. * Do not plan any experiments that involves any live or dead animals * Dangerous chemicals, and explosives MUST not be exhibited * Flammables or Inflammables MUST not be used in your exhibits * If you use any sort of liquids, please make sure you have plastic trays and cleanup materials Note: A detailed hand book will be provided later to all the participants after their registration.
Last date for registration Nov 10, 2010 Age Eligibility: between 10 and 17yrs **We may close the registration prior to the above date depending on the registrations** Hence Rush to register!!
Registration Process
Send below details to scifi@live-in-japan.com * Name * Age * Date of Birth [YYYY/MM/DD] * School * Father’s Name * Mother’s Name * Address * Tel * Email Privacy Policy: live-in-japan.com sincerely respects the participants’ privacy. Personal information provided will not be used for any purpose other than communication for ‘SciFI’ and other future events. You can opt out from our database at any time if you so wish. For more information on our privacy policy please visit: http://forum.live-in-japan.com/viewtopic.php?t=5
Access
Venue: 359-0027, Saitama, Tokorozawa, Matsugo 153 The nearest station is Higashi-Tokorozawa on the JR Musashino-line 44 minutes from Tokyo station, 37 minutes from Shibuya station, 64 minutes from Yokohama station
Where to start / What to do?
Many of you may wonder: what can I do? where to start? how to proceed? The best Science Fair entries are those which investigate something. The “something” here can be quite simple—in fact it is better if it is simple. Science is about investigating things, it is not about presenting “all about…” type of material. Some Starters: * Particular questions about things around you * Comparisons of different sorts/makes of everyday items * Collecting information of things around you * Analysing some everyday items and so on … alternatively * Select some questions about things that you are interested in that needs answers like What if? Why like this? Why not like that? etc. Recording your investigation aka What to record? * the purpose of the investigation * the different treatments or conditions you had * any things you took for granted ie. assumption that could have affected accuracy or reliability of your results * any data that you collected Above is just an idea or starters for you and not an expressive guide line aka do not limit to the above.
Prizes and Awards
We always strongly believe that this kind of event are purely to develop or stimulate the interest in Children towards Science and is not a competition to decide who is the winner or runner or loser or which is the best performing exhibit etc. All the participants are winners of the event and hence there will not be any prizes for the exhibits. However as a token of appreciation we will be issuing Special merit certificates to all the participants who have registered and exhibited their exhibits.
Advisors
* Dr. Rajagopal, Phd., Prof. of Physics at National College Trichy, India. * Mrs. Lakshmi, MSc., Vikasa School, Vickramasinghapuram, India.
Executive Members
* Christopher Holland, Admissions Manager, Columbia International School * Sudarshan Pattabiraman, Research Student, National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba * Narayanan Ravi Chandran, Vice President, Morgan Stanley MUFG
Organized by: live-in-japan.com Columbia International School
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