{"id":563,"date":"2017-09-30T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/?page_id=563"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:45:28","slug":"about-vdsf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/about-vdsf\/","title":{"rendered":"About VDSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Vancouver District Science Fair (VDSF) <\/span><\/strong>is an annual showcase of scientific research and innovation from Grades 7 to 12 students in the Vancouver public school district <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">**<\/span>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>VDSF has been hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/langara.ca\/\">Langara College<\/a> since 2013. Over the course of the evening, participants present their projects to judges from the local scientific community &#8212; graduate students, post-secondary instructors, industry professionals. They also have the opportunity to see each other&#8217;s projects and engage in hands-on breakout sessions led by Langara instructors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Vancouver District Science Fair 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6yR9Tl9qXag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>VDSF was one of the last fairs to run in March 2020 before COVID hit but pivoted to a virtual format for 2021 and 2022. Since then, VDSF has evolved into a <strong>hybrid fair<\/strong>. In addition to the in-person judging at Langara, VDSF participants also present their projects to judges over Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<p>The skills and experience that students gain from conducting their own scientific inquiry and conversing with judges who have the expertise to appreciate 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/gvrsf.ca\/\">Greater Vancouver<\/a>) and even national levels (<a href=\"https:\/\/youthscience.ca\/science-fairs\/cwsf\/edmonton-2023\/about-cwsf\/\">Canada-Wide Science Fair<\/a>). Either way, VDSF is a positive experience for all participants.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"VDSF Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zoC--3tHqmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><b>** IMPORTANT NOTE: <\/b><\/span>As a district-level fair, VDSF serves as the official qualifying round for the <a href=\"https:\/\/gvrsf.ca\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><b>Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair<\/b> <b>(GVRSF)<\/b><\/span><\/a>. If you are a VSB student, you must first attend VDSF and place as a finalist there in order to qualify for GVRSF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>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 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/about-vdsf\/\" title=\"About VDSF\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/vdsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}