How to Use science fair in a Sentence

science fair

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  • She won first place at the science fair.
  • And the science fair portion of the program was sparse.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • For so many high schoolers, the science fair is a rite of passage.
    — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 27 July 2018
  • The science fair project your child just remembered to tell you about.
    — Stephanie Burns, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Remember that kid who got straight As, starred in the school play, won the science fair, and was a star athlete?
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There is no bigger target for the school bullies than the nerds who just won the blue ribbon at the science fair.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Five years ago, the country won the rights to stage what is essentially the world’s largest science fair.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Kyron was supposed to take part in both the expo/science fair and the talent show.
    — oregonlive, 4 June 2020
  • The first and second place winners in both grades will compete in the county science fair in May.
    — Mary Schneidau Sullivan, Laurel Leader, 15 Mar. 2018
  • With science fair just around corner, Jules challenges Verne to race around world.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Sun once made a flamethrower as part of a school science fair, said Cheng, his former tutor.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • One school posted a video of a kid presenting his science fair project.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • That award is one of the top three awards given at the international science fair, billed as the largest science fairs in the world.
    — oregonlive, 17 May 2022
  • The science fair organizers were not stingy with the award ribbons.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 1 Mar. 2020
  • This year’s inductees are: David Richmond, Class of 1962, lettered in track and was a bronze medal winner in the county science fair.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The same confidence emerges when a child completes his own science fair or other school project.
    — Andrea Atkins, Woman's Day, 26 Mar. 2010
  • Maravilla said a science fair burned into her mind about the dangers of smoking and the school’s random smells.
    — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2021
  • As any science fair veteran knows, at the core of a successful project is a problem in need of solving.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ro and Benji decide to build this rocket for their seventh-grade science fair project.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • With science fair approaching, Jules challenges Verne to race around world.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • So for his eighth-grade science fair project, Jurić wanted to capture that spectral light.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The device looks less steampunk and more 21st-century science fair project.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
  • My body has already become a giant science fair project.
    — refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • An example of the wrong kind of parental involvement is the proverbial science fair project that clearly was not produced by the student.
    — Wendy Faucett, Pomerado News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Sunday morning, time is called at 10:00, and the programmers set up their creations like students at a science fair.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2015
  • Think of the classic baking soda–and-vinegar volcano science fair project!
    — Lindsey E. Murphy, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2011
  • For 15 years, the stage and hallways at Code and its predecessor have been a glitzy science fair of innovators promising to change the world, to disrupt, to move fast and break things.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • From her day-to-day teaching duties to helping with the school’s annual science fair and who knows what else, Berry reached iconic status long ago.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2020
  • My daughter, an incoming 1st year student at the University of Georgia, reached the finals of the state science fair as an 8th grader with a project about the physics of a volleyball serve.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Steenbeck is in town to watch his genius son, Woodrow (Jake Ryan), participate in a young adult science fair where multiple inventions will be judged.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023

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