23rd Annual Kentucky Science & Engineering Fair  

Save the Date!  

Join us Friday and Saturday, March 28 and 29, 2025 at Eastern Kentucky University’s Student Recreation Center for the 23rd Annual Kentucky Science & Engineering Fair!  The Student Recreation Center is located at 228 Park Drive behind our former venue, the Alumni Coliseum.  

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.   

Deadline for registration was Friday, March 21, 2025. 

2025 Awards

The 2025 Awards Ceremony was live streamed at 2:00p.m. Sunday, March 30 and can be viewed via EKU E-presence.  You can also view the list of 2025 Award Winners.

NOTE:  The Science & Engineering Fair of Northern Kentucky (SEFNK) was not be held in 2025. The Louisville, Central, and East regional fairs accepted student projects from the affected counties.   https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/affiliated-fair-network/

On March 29, 2025 the in-person fair was held at Eastern Kentucky University in the new EKU Student Recreation Center!  Nearly 300 participants competed in 22 STEM categories as well as for a variety of special awards.  Middle School students grades 6 – 8 were selected to compete in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge .  High School students grades 9 – 12 were selected to present at the 2025 Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair.

Check out the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair where Team Kentucky competed May 11-17, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, where Grace Sun of Lexington, KY won the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, the top award given at Regeneron ISEF.  Regeneron ISEF 2025 will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 10-16, 2025.  Visit here for Regeneron ISEF 2025 information.

We are grateful to our partners at Kentucky-based STEM Wizard for working collaboratively with us to support the ambitions of our participants.

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Welcome video from Dr. David McFaddin, President, Eastern Kentucky University

Welcome video from Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky

See the photo gallery of 2019 KY-SEF

KY-SEF’s mission is to expand educational opportunities for all middle and high school students, and to enhance the visibility and importance of science and engineering in Kentucky by providing an annual statewide competition that supports, encourages, and recognizes student excellence in science and engineering research.

KY-SEF is affiliated with and its top winners attend the Regeneron® International Science and Engineering Fair® (Regeneron ISEF), the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, which annually provides a forum for more than 1,600 high school students from over 70 countries, regions, and territories to showcase their independent research and compete for more than $4 million in awards.