{"id":204468,"date":"2026-03-04T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:28:09","slug":"downtown-bakersfield-hosts-kern-county-science-fair-at-dignity-health-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204468\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Bakersfield hosts Kern County science fair at Dignity Health Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of Kern County students brought their science projects to downtown Bakersfield for the county\u2019s annual regional science fair at the Dignity Health Arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s science fair, we have over 700 students represented all the way from fourth to 12th grade,\u201d said Chelsey Lancaster, a STEM program specialist with KCSOS. Lancaster said projects span a wide range of categories, including \u201cchemistry to materials science, plant biology, mammalian biology, and the list goes on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lancaster said one project that stood out to her was one that is testing oral ozempic. She called it \u201cvery culturally relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FourthFourth through sixth grade students sit alongside their science projects at the annual KCSOS Science Fair PHOTO: KBFX<\/p>\n

The fair\u2019s judging includes volunteers from local STEM industries. \u201cI believe there\u2019s over 200 judges who are volunteering their time right now,\u201d Lancaster added <\/p>\n

She said first- and second-place winners advance to the California state science fair. She also said two students will participate in the International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix in May.<\/p>\n

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Students often begin preparing months in advance, Lancaster said. \u201cSome schools start all the way in September, right when school starts,\u201d she said, adding that school-level science fairs typically wrap up in December and January before students advance to the county event.<\/p>\n

For those interested in volunteering or learning more about future science fairs, information is available at kern.org<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Kern County students brought their science projects to downtown Bakersfield for the county\u2019s annual regional science…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-204468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}