NY-CSEF
NY-CSEF invites high school students, college students, and young scientists to participate in our fair, expo, and journal. Join us to showcase your research and connect with the scientific community!
Science Research- NY-CSEF seeks to innovative scholarly manuscripts or posters on sciences, such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, and other relevant subjects).
- We also accept environmental and energy research papers and posters.
- For students' competition, the students must be in 9th to 12th grade or college students and be currently enrolled in a public school, a private school, or homeschooled.
Engineering Research - The projects can contain any relevant engineering fields, including mathematical or computational science knowledge.
- Topics relevant to engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical engineering or material science would be suitable.
- For the students' comperition, the students must be in 9th to 12th grade or college students and be currently taking relevant courses in school.
Humanities and Social Studies- A paper that emphasizes any area of the humanities, social studies, philosophy, business, or economy can be submitted.
- Social science phenomenon and humanities research as a major cause or effect would be accepted as well.
- Additionally, NY-CSEF welcomes featured articles that contribute to broadly defined improvement of general intellectual knowledge or empirical studies of abstract theories.
NY-CSEF Journal - For the Journal, we accept submissions on a rolling basis from students and young scientists including professionals. All final papers and supporting documentation must be submitted via portal.
- If your submission is accepted, your paper or abstract will be published online in an average of two months of receipt of the final accepted version.
- If you want to participate in the presentation or paper competition(not Journal), please check the section "Schedule".
Internship Eligibility - Students must attend school in the US or overseas in order to apply to a physical/virtual internship.
- Students must be in the 9th to 12th grade or in a college.
- Please include your resume that contains activities and research experiences in the application.
- The internship can be in a creative industry that relates to your area of study and professional goals.
- Apply through online or send your application by email, admin@nycsef.org.
News and Updates- NY-CSEF is concerned with the health and well-being of its attendees and staff. *Virtual PPC and RPC are OPEN(In-person PPC is canceled).
- Submission for the NY-CSEF Competition 2026 is open until June 30, 2026. To check the schedule, please go to the menu Fair Schedule(view details).
- All the project materials will need to be uploaded to a website where the judges will be able to access and review remotely. Submission of a research paper for the NY-CSEF journal is open year-round.
Past NY-CSEF Winners 
Grand Prize(Isabella Souza 
) / 1st Place in Category(Giovanni Napoleone) / 3rd Place Overall(Keneil Soni)
NY-CSEF Expo/Events and Award Ceremonies
NY-CSEF Expo at Harvard Club of New York City or JCC in NJ
WELCOME MESSAGES BY THE PAST WINNERS
NYCSEF Expo
8/11, 2026
Harvard Club of New York City(TBD)
NYCSEF invites the submission of innovative proposals for the conference broadly defined on humanities, social, and other interdisciplinary research, as well as science and engineering research.
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