<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">All, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">If you have a few minutes to  do this, please register to do so.  Thanks  in advance.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Studentdeancnas</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:studentdeancnas@ucr.edu">studentdeancnas@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 2:13 AM<br>Subject: RUSD Science & Engineering Fair Judging request and Dept Awards question<br>To: Jingsong Zhang <<a href="mailto:jingsong.zhang@ucr.edu">jingsong.zhang@ucr.edu</a>>, Bpschair <<a href="mailto:bpschair@ucr.edu">bpschair@ucr.edu</a>>, Leonard J Mueller <<a href="mailto:leonard.mueller@ucr.edu">leonard.mueller@ucr.edu</a>>, Michael A McKibben <<a href="mailto:michael.mckibben@ucr.edu">michael.mckibben@ucr.edu</a>>, Richard Redak <<a href="mailto:redak@ucr.edu">redak@ucr.edu</a>>, David Volz <<a href="mailto:david.volz@ucr.edu">david.volz@ucr.edu</a>>, Len Nunney <<a href="mailto:nunney@citrus.ucr.edu">nunney@citrus.ucr.edu</a>>, Yat Sun Poon <<a href="mailto:ypoon@ucr.edu">ypoon@ucr.edu</a>>, Katherine A Borkovich <<a href="mailto:katherine.borkovich@ucr.edu">katherine.borkovich@ucr.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:mcsbchair@ucr.edu">mcsbchair@ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:mcsbchair@ucr.edu">mcsbchair@ucr.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu">isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu">isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu</a>>, Kenneth Barish <<a href="mailto:kenneth.barish@ucr.edu">kenneth.barish@ucr.edu</a>>, Xinping Cui <<a href="mailto:xpcui@ucr.edu">xpcui@ucr.edu</a>><br>Cc: Joann Young <<a href="mailto:joann.young@ucr.edu">joann.young@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>




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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">This year, RUSD is conducting the Science Fair through a website called Zfairs.  They have approximately 50 projects in
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">Judges will need to register on the platform and then RUSD will assign the projects they will judge.  Unfortunately, there
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<b>Here is the link to register to help judge projects on Jan 12th</b>: <a href="https://ca-rusd.zfairs.com/?f=0438ff1e-01ff-4b7c-99da-76799e54f0ff" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">https://ca-rusd.zfairs.com/?f=0438ff1e-01ff-4b7c-99da-76799e54f0ff</a>.
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<div>For the Awards Ceremony, RUSD will do a series of recordings and then our Communications team will stitch it all together and broadcast that video.  <b>Let me know if your department would like to present any specialty
 awards this year.  RUSD will need to know who would present them, to coordinate a time to have them record their part.</b>  We will also need to know their title for the graphics. Here is their timeliine:</div>
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