Very Exciting News!! Synopsys Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair (ACSEF), is coming into another highly successful year! ACSEF provides a forum for stimulating student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) and an avenue for educators to fulfill their Next Generation Science Standards as well as Common Core Standards. Grade 6-12 students educated within Alameda County from home school, charter, public, private and parochial schools are eligible to participate in the fair held annually at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.

Synopsys ACSEF is a 501 (C)(3) non-profit organization - Tax ID # 45-1800245 and we welcome and require your support to continue providing this opportunity to the students from Alameda County. We welcome your interest and participation as a volunteer, judge or as a sponsor to HELP us keep offering this county-wide science, engineering and technology event year after year. Visit this link on the fair's website acsef.org/subpages/donorform.html

ACSEF is affiliated with the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world's largest pre-college celebration of high school science competition and the California State Science Fair (CSSF), which is California's most elite science competition for middle and high school student projects, the international i-SWEEP competition focuses on energy, engineering, and environmental projects, the national Broadcom Masters competition is for the top 10% of middle school research projects from each affiliated fair throughout the country - projects focus on originality.

Synopsys ACSEF is held annually in March at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, CA

Generous donations, scholarship funding and additional support are provided our Sponsors:

Sponsors include Synopsys Outreach Foundation - the Title Sponsor, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - a major sponsor who provides funding and a large number of qualified judges and

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•Workday

•Kaiser Permanente

•AT&T

•Oracle

•Cisco

•Alameda County Water and Wastewater Agencies

•East Bay Community Foundation

•PECG - Professional Engineers in California Government

•Intermedia - The Business Cloud

•Sandia National Laboratories - Lockheed Martin

•American Institute of Mathematics

•Galaxy Press

•Peter & Patricia Castro