About VDSF

The Vancouver District Science Fair (VDSF) is an annual showcase of scientific research and innovation from Grades 7 to 12 students in the Vancouver public school district*. VDSF participants come from a variety of school programs but all are enthusiastic about science and keen to share their work with a wider audience.

VDSF has been hosted at Langara College since 2013. Over the course of the evening, participants present their projects to judges from the local scientific community — graduate students, post-secondary instructors, industry professionals. They also have the opportunity to see each other’s projects and engage in hands-on breakout sessions led by Langara instructors.

The skills and experience that students gain from conducting their own scientific inquiry and conversing with judges who have the expertise to understand their work are hard to match. While students can always adjust experiments or revise project reports on their own, live presentation skills can only be honed with exposure to audiences like the one at VDSF.

For some students, VDSF is the finale to their science fair project. For others, VDSF will be a stepping stone to science fairs at the regional (Greater Vancouver) and even national levels (Canada-Wide Science Fair). Either way, VDSF is a positive experience for all participants.

* Important note: As a district-level fair, VDSF serves as the official qualifying round for the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair (GVRSF). If you are a VSB student, you must first go to VDSF and place as a finalist there in order to qualify for the regional science fair.