CBSE Science Exhibition 2024-25

The Central Board of Secondary Education has been taking many initiatives to generate curiosity, to develop scientific attitude amongst learners, to encourage learners to create, innovate and also to become more responsible. CBSE Science Exhibition is one of such initiatives. The activity aims at providing a platform to students to demonstrate the construction of knowledge by connecting new ideas to existing concepts.

The CBSE Science Exhibition for the academic session 2024-25 would be organized at Regional and then at National Level in the months of October 2024 – December 2024.

The Theme and Sub–Themes for the Science Exhibition 2024 – 25 are:

This exhibition is open to all CBSE Students in 02 categories: Category I – Students of Classes 6-8 and Category II – Students of Classes 9-11. The Board invites students of affiliated schools (classes 6 to 11) to prepare research-based science projects or exhibits that are original on any of the above listed sub-themes of the main theme “Science and Technology for Sustainable Future”. The students may register, submit and showcase their projects, with the help of their schools.

GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION

1. All schools willing to participate need to register online, remit fee and submit the project/exhibit between 16th August 2024 to 10th September 2024 at https://cbseit.in/cbse/2024/sciex/sch_login.aspx. The last date for registration, submission of fee and submission of project/exhibit is 10th September 2024.
2. The Schools would firstly be required to select option as to whether they are an Indian School or Foreign School.
3. The registration fee as per the details given below must be submitted through online payment gateway:

4. The students may participate in any of the 02 categories:

Category I – Classes 6 – 8; and
Category II – Classes 9 – 11
A registering School Team will be represented by-
a) A maximum of two students of the same category; and
b) one mentor Science teacher.

5. A participating school can register a maximum of two teams.

6. The names of the students and the mentor teacher, once registered, will not be changed at any stage of the exhibition. The school team participating at Regional and National Level must remain the same.

7. The sub – theme once selected cannot be changed. Similarly, the title of the Project cannot be changed.

8. Each registered team would be provided a unique login credential on the CBSE Science Exhibition portal for online submission of the project.

9. The student/ team project may be-

• an investigation-based study;
• application of basic principles of Science and Technology;
• a novel solution/indigenous design to a problem/challenge.

Students and mentor teachers may visit the https://cbseit.in/cbse/2024/sciex/sch_login.aspx for more resources related to the CBSE Science Exhibition.

10. Care should be taken to use eco-friendly materials in the preparation of exhibits.

11. Though the portal would accept the registration and submission of project till the last day i.e. 10th September 2024 however, to avoid the last days rush, the schools are advised to register and pay fee within 12 days of the issuance of this circular and submit the project/exhibit by the last date i.e. 10th September 2024.

12. The teams would be required to submit the details of their respective projects (title, description, list of materials used, images, video) on the portal using their unique login credentials within the time-frame for submission (10th September 2024).

13. The screening of the entries would be done before the regional/national level exhibitions.

14. The exhibits will be assessed by a team of experts as per the following criteria

The decision of the experts would be final.

15. The regional stage of exhibition will be held at different venues across the country. The information regarding the venues will be notified (on CBSE website) and communicated to individual schools on their email ids.

16. The participating school/team would bear all expenses related to participation in the event.

17. The participating teams would make their own lodging/boarding arrangements at the venue city of the exhibition.

18. Participation of schools from Foreign Countries
i. The Regional Round of teams from Foreign Schools would be held online through video conferencing.
ii. The team/s from foreign schools winning the Regional Round would be required to participate for the National Round in India physically, at their own expenditure towards travel, stay and other expenses.

19. The selected best Fourteen exhibits (the number may increase or decrease depending on the quality of the exhibit) at each regional level venue will be eligible to participate in the National Level Exhibition (details of the date and venue would be informed).

20. The selected best entries at the National Level will be rewarded suitably.

21. The names of the winners of the CBSE National Science Exhibition will be forwarded for consideration as entries in the Rashtriya Bal Vaigyaanik Pradarshani, 2025 to be organized by NCERT. The confirmation for the participation in the exhibition is subject to their selection for the same. Winners may also get a direct entry to participate in the Science Exhibition organized by Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science (IRIS) subject to their selection for it.

For more information, please visit the website https://cbseit.in/cbse/2024/sciex/sch_login.aspx.

For any queries, you may contact at tel. no. 011-23238361 or email at science.fair@cbseshiksha.in