!! BREAKING NEWS !!    2025    !! BREAKING NEWS !! 

We have selected our 2025 ISEF team of eleven students and the all-round talent of our team is extraordinary. We are super excited to have two New Zealand students joining our team for the first time. Make sure you have a look at our project summaries and click on the link to each student profile on our AUSSEF Student Profiles Page. We are now earnestly looking for sponsorship for our 2025 ISEF team. Gold and Silver sponsors will be given the exclusive opportunity to feature an ISEF finalist and their profile in any of their organisation’s advertising and promotional activities! Anyone can also support our 2025 ISEF team by making a tax-deductible contribution to our donation page. 

AUSSEF 2025 

We will be having our official launch of AUSSEF 2025 in late February, however, you are welcome to start your project now. Everything will be the same as 2024, including judging the projects in the 22 categories that are offered by ISEF. The only difference will be a modification of the judging criteria to reduce the number of criterion. Also engineering projects will not need a separate logbook, as an engineering folio effectively shows the progress of each design stage. 

We are inviting Australian school students from Years 9-12 who have completed a substantial project in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics to enter their project into our national fair. Students should upload their project reports to our online Project Submission page by Wednesday 12th November, 2025. Check out the Rules and Guidelines Page and you might be in line to represent Australia or other Oceania country on the world stage!

Again this year, a three-staged national judging process will select the students who submit the best nine to eleven STEM projects into our AUSSEF competition. These students will win an all-expenses-paid-trip to compete at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), to be held in Phoenix, Arizona from May 9-15, 2026 (pending funding).

AUSSEF is committed to providing opportunities for students studying within Regional and Remote areas and for First Nations students. Hence, we strongly encourage Regional, Remote and First Nations students to enter.

ISEF 2024

Thanks needs to be given to our many sponsors who fully supported our AUSSEF team of 12 students, at ISEF 2024 in Los Angeles. Our ISEF 2024 page, showcases our team’s performance with the daily updates, photo galleries and video feeds. You can now view all of the 1500 ISEF 2024 projects on the ISEF 2024 ProjectBoard, (this is the best resource you can get for initiating ideas for your own STEM project).

The ISEF 2024 team performed brilliantly with 8 of our 12 students (75%) winning Grand Awards, well above the international average of 25-27%.