The Fair is Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Lindale Mall, Cedar Rapids.
Times
Check-in for everybody starts at 8:00 AM on Fair Day.
- Students
- EISEF judges
- Sponsored Award judges
Places
Mall Entrance
- Only one Mall entrance will be open on Saturday morning: On the Mall’s north side, next to the former Sears.
- Lindale Mall Info has maps and a photo that show where it is.
- We’ll raise an EISEF banner beside the entrance to guide you.
- Follow the crowds and the parked cars.
- Everybody — students, adult sponsors, and judges — will be funneling through this single set of doors.
- Nobody else will be entering the Mall at that time.
Key locations
- EISEF Headquarters: Main level near the former Sears, across from the Sears entrance.
- Student Check-in: Main level in front of the Sears entrance.
- Judges’ Check-in: Outside EISEF HQ.
- Sponsored Awards Check-in: Inside EISEF HQ.
The When and Where page has schedules, maps, and directions to help you find your way on Fair Day.
Advice for you
Last-minute judges and volunteers: come to check-in (EISEF Headquarters) and we’ll sign you up there.
Students:
- This year you have two ways to check in:
- Online: In the early hours of Fair Day, we’ll send an email to you and your adult sponsor, inviting you to check in online — you can confirm whether you’ll be attending (or not) before your bus reaches Lindale Mall. If you do this, you’re free to go directly to your division area and find your exhibit table.
- Check-in desk: If you didn’t receive the email, couldn’t check in online, forgot your exhibit number, need a chair for medical reasons, or have questions, visit our Student Check-in desk; the clerks there will be happy to help you.
- Have someone take a photo of you in front of your exhibit, then email it to .
Judges:
- You can pick the exhibits you’d like to judge — before the Fair. These pages list the entries we’ve received, with their titles and descriptions. Look them over, choose a couple that are right for you, and you’ll be ready to sign up on Fair Day morning.
- Exhibit List for Judges (regular EISEF judging)
- Exhibit List for Awards (Sponsored Awards)
Everybody: Contribute to the 2024 Photo Album!
- Take 3 (or more) photos of things you see at EISEF.
- Email them to .
- We’ll include the photos we like.