WESEF 2025 will be held on Saturday March 15th, 2025 and the Awards Ceremony will be during the evening of Thursday March 20th, 2025. Please ask your students to save these dates!
WESEF Registration:
We will continue to utilize the online science fair organization, www.wesef.zfairs.org, for WESEF 2025. We will be using zFairs for teacher, student, and judge registration as well as for turning in all student paperwork. Before your students can register, you will have to register on our customized, zFairs website.
The basic timeline for student registration for the 2025 Regeneron WESEF is as follows:
- WESEF TEACHER registration opens October 1st, 2024 and closes Oct 31st, 2024. Teachers must register first and then work directly with their students to register them one at a time. Students cannot register on their own.
- WESEF STUDENT registration must be complete by December 4th, 2024.
Please use the link provided directly to teachers to access the student registration; all students should register with assistance from their teachers. - Students Upload Paperwork – All student paperwork must be uploaded by December 11th, 2024. Students are responsible for uploading their own forms and paperwork ONLINE in order to qualify for Regeneron WESEF 2025. Students must use the zFairs platform to determine which forms will be needed for your project and upload signed PDF files for all required forms. Student paperwork must include Forms 1, 1A, 1B and ALL additional forms that needed based on the project type (i.e. human subjects, vertebrate animals, etc…) as well as the WESEF Abstract, Research Paper, and Research Plan. Please double-check that you have uploaded the correct documents with all required signatures.
- Teachers Review Student Paperwork in zFairs. This must be completed by December 18th, 2024. We are providing teachers with a window to carefully review student paperwork from 12/11 – 12/18/2024.
Please review every single document that has been uploaded by your students, checking that: 1) the correct form has been uploaded, 2) the form is complete and accurate, and 3) the form has all required signatures.ALL PAPERWORK must be submitted online. No additional forms will be accepted after 12/18/2024.
- WESEF Check/purchase order and school registration list must be postmarked by 12/20/2024. See invoice for details.
The VIDEO TUTORIAL FOR TEACHER REGISTRATION is here.
WESEF Payment
It is essential that you ONLY register students that you are very confident will be ready for WESEF with consideration of all of the rules and restrictions listed above in the Registration/SRC section.
The cost will be $90 per student for the regular deadline submission of all materials (12/04/2024). Fee is non-refundable regardless if a student drops or is disqualified (due to student or teacher error).
Please plan ahead if your school/district will pay with a purchase order. There is usually a major delay between a request for payment (PO) and when the check is written. Final payment for purchase orders in the form of a school-issued check must be postmarked NO LATER than December 20th, 2024.
Make all checks/purchase orders payable to “WESEF”
Send check(s) to:
Stephanie Peborde Burke
WESEF Treasurer
PO Box 1373
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Student Paperwork/Forms Upload
Instructions for WESEF Paperwork Upload
Judge Recruiting:
We appreciate your effort to help WESEF increase the number of judges we can recruit to match the increasing number of student participants. Your help with recruiting qualified judges is essential to the success of the fair, please review the judge requirements on our judges page.
Judges can register by zFairs. Please address any questions or concerns by contacting our judge coordinator at wesefjudges1@gmail.com.