Chico Science Fair

The Chico Science Fair is now the Children's Science Endowment Fund.

Its mission to ensure the continued availability and vitality of community-wide celebration of scientific inquiry for the students of Chico CA continues. Students from public and private schools in the Chico Unified School District exhibit their science projects in the Chico Science Fair. These projects have demonstrated excellence in a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, natural scienc

07/24/2025

Read more about the Children's Science Education Endowment Fund in the comments below.

05/05/2024

Some scenes from our 2024 STEM Quad Challenge.

02/24/2024

With beautiful spring weather starting to make early appearances, it's a great time to explore the rich biodiversity of Chico's natural environment. Our upcoming STEM Quad Challenge includes a bio-inspired design challenge. Interested in learning more about nature? Here are some great resources:

02/24/2024

Happy Museum Weekend! Enjoy some science explorations with our partners at Gateway Science Museum. We are looking forward to our STEM Quad Challenge for registered students grades 3-8 in just a couple weeks. Our pulleys challenge draws inspiration from Gateway's Leonardo DaVinci Machines in Motion exhibit which gives captivating insight into how things work.

Join us for one of the most exciting times of year at Gateway: Butte County Museum Weekend (and our 14th birthday)!

Visit 15 museums around Butte County offering FREE admission, discover special activities and programming, and use your Museum Weekend Passport to visit 5 museums and unlock deals from local eateries.

This year at Gateway:
⭐️ Explore the Bombus and Leonardo da Vinci exhibits
⭐️ Investigate amazing regional fossils on display
⭐️ Channel your inner engineer, and artist in a tower building challenge
⭐️ Complete a special exhibit scavenger hunt for a prize
⭐️ Enter your chance to win a gift basket - including a free family membership!

All the details from Explore Butte County at https://www.explorebuttecounty.com/museum-weekend

02/24/2024

Volunteers are still needed for the STEM Quad Challenge happening March 9th. Help us bring this exciting event to our community.

12/23/2023

Happy Holidays! If you have empty cardboard tubes or ribbon spools from your festivities please save them for us. Donations may be dropped off at Gateway Science Museum.

12/17/2023

There's still time to register your team!

12/05/2023

Register your team for our STEM Quad Challenge with Chico Science Fair! Visit website at chicosciencefair.org to sign up your team and for more information.