How to Help: Be a Volunteer

Thank you for your interest in volunteering! The Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair is an all-volunteer organization and we appreciate your desire to help make this event possible.

Schools are required to provide adult volunteers based on the number of projects they are sending to the Fair:

1 to 6 projects = 1 volunteer
7 to 13 projects = 2 volunteers

A volunteer must work a 2.5 hour shift. A single person may sign up for additional shifts. (If an individual signs up for 2 shifts, that counts as 2 volunteers) If a school provides a judge, that counts as 2 volunteers. Please notify the Volunteer Coordinator if a judge is provided.

Additionally, please use the “Organization” field in the Judge registration form to indicate the School name. We can add this to the volunteer registration email blast we send to Site coordinators. This will make it a bit efficient to provide volunteer hour credit for School.

To sign up as a volunteer, please follow these steps (registration is open now!):

Visit our online registration site (app.lascifair.org) and click on “register a new account”. You will then enter your information.*

When you have finished entering your information, the system will email you a password within 72 hours.

When you receive your password, use it to log back into our system (app.lascifair.org) and select your volunteer job(s), date(s), and time(s).

*If you are already in our system as a Site Coordinator or Judge, you will need to use a different email address when you sign up to be a Volunteer.

You will receive a confirmation of your assignment as well as final information via email a week before the Fair.

Please do not hesitate to contact Meena Chokkalingam, Volunteer Coordinator at mail2meena@yahoo.com if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation in the 76th Annual Los Angeles County Science & Engineering Fair!

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY

The Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair is an equal opportunity for all event, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, medical condition, national origin, race and religious creed. Judges & volunteers bear the responsibility to act as guardians and custodians of the students during their volunteering. Their familiarity with the students’ special sensitivities is imperative to the overall Science Fair effort to achieve an equal opportunity for all and an environment free of discrimination.