Eligibility
Requirements / Eligibility / Judging
All entrants must be United States or Canadian citizens or legal residents, living within the United States, U.S. Territories or Canada and enrolled full-time in a public, private or home school. Students must be no older than 21 years of age.
National Science Teachers Association employees, NSTA Board Members, ExploraVision Awards judges and their respective families are not eligible to enter the competition.
ExploraVision has four entry categories:
- Primary Level (Grades K–3)
- Upper Elementary Level (Grades 4–6)
- Middle Level (Grades 7–9)
- High School Level (Grades 10–12)
Each category will be judged separately, based on the abilities of students in those grades. Students in a lower grade may be part of a team competing in the next-higher entry category. However, students may not move down to a lower grade-level entry category.
Previous participants
Any entry that has won at ExploraVision's regional and/or national levels may not be re-submitted in future years. Any entry previously awarded a prize in another competition may not be submitted.Any student who was selected as a regional or national finalist in the 1992–2007 ExploraVision Awards can only compete in subsequent years with a new team — i.e., with students who have not previously been selected as ExploraVision Awards regional or national finalists.
