{"id":224772,"date":"2026-03-18T04:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:26:24","slug":"fresno-county-students-prepare-for-annual-science-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224772\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County Students Prepare for Annual Science Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Middle and high school students from across Fresno County are gearing up for this year\u2019s annual science fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">More than 250 students spent their Monday setting up their projects at the Fresno Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Organizers say they are excited and proud to see student interest and knowledge in science, mathematics and engineering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cIt\u2019s so important that behind us, these kids are our future doctors, engineers, all of the science fields, so them coming to the science fair today means support for science in our Valley, eventually,\u201d said Jason Horsman, director of STEM for the Fresno County superintendent of schools. \u201cI really can\u2019t wait to see these kids grow and come back to the Valley and support us, and really, the science being done here is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Tuesday, students will be interviewed by judges about their project and the months of experimentation they conducted throughout the school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Awards will be announced on Thursday, including thousands of dollars in scholarships and a chance to compete at the state and regional level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is the 74th year of the Fresno County Science Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Middle and high school students from across Fresno County are gearing up for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-224772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224772","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=224772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}