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Holding Local Fairs: Each school in Region VIII, which includes the parishes of Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington, is encouraged to hold a local Social Studies Fair to select winners who will enter the Region VIII Social Studies Fair. In schools where a local fair is not held, selection of entrants for the Region VIII Social Studies Fair may be made by a committee of teachers. Limitations and Classification. Please note the limits on entries to the Region VIII Social Studies Fair given under “Organization.” Please be sure that all projects are placed in the proper Discipline as described .
Judges. Please note that the Region VIII Social Studies Fair is unable to provide judges for local fairs.
If this is your first time participating in your local fair, you may want to review A Guide to Social Studies Projects.
Participants, parents, and teachers frequently express concern about the number of times that a project has been judged. In the past there have been complaints that some students have been “judged” once, while others have been “judged” several times. In fact a project may be examined only once by the judges, or it may be viewed several times by the Judges where there is difficulty in making decisions about winners. But the fact that judges look at some projects more times than others does not indicate any discrimination. It merely reflects the judges’ need to obtain more information for some entries. Complaints should not be made in such cases. Complaints should be made at the Information Tables only if an entry has not been judged at all by the end of the judging period, that is, by 11:30am. Their decisions are final.