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The toolkit

The feature list is long because the job is long.

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  • Score on any device with digital rubrics, file attachments, judge comments, and integrated video interviews.
  • Custom rubrics and weighted scoring rounds. Auto-balance judge assignments (by school, industry, or background mix) or assign by hand.
  • Judge Captains monitor live scoring progress in real time. Full support for student peer-review judging.
  • Manage special-award judges, nominations, and automated award assignments. Moderate judge feedback before releasing results to students.
Judging in the catalog →
  • Guided ISEF and custom form wizards for both standard requirements and custom organization rules.
  • Interactive digital form-filling, e-signatures, and scanned wet-signature packet uploads.
  • Multi-stage approval workflows for teachers and SRC / IRB review committees, with integrated student feedback loops.
  • Enforce 'submit-to-enter' rules to protect your roster—or use free standalone forms at isef.app.
Paperwork in the catalog →
  • Includes a ready-to-use companion app for every event, with options to customize splash screens, colors, and branding
  • Rich engagement tools: push notifications, custom FAQs, banners, document downloads, and embedded venue maps.
  • Tailored role views: deploy distinct home screens and navigation for judges vs. participants within a single event.
  • No app downloads for judges: scoring runs directly in any mobile web browser for maximum speed and accessibility.
Mobile in the catalog →
  • Monitor real-time progress via live dashboards and directory lists, then build, print, or export custom reports.
  • Run seamless ceremony presentations: auto-generate 16:9 awards slideshows with phonetic name pronunciation guides, custom certificates, and sponsor highlights.
  • Publish beautiful public showcases featuring highlighted projects, searchable historical archives, and official contest results.
Reports in the catalog →
  • Direct access via 800-252-0903 and support@zFairs.com—staffed M–F, plus on-call coverage on weekend event days.
  • Free live training on demand, including group webinars for your entire organizing team.
  • Personalized setup support so new directors never have to start from scratch.
  • Public help wiki at wiki.zfairs.com, plus built-in event-day chat for your staff to assist judges.
Support in the catalog →
  • Flex Flows for every role. Promote from one zFairs event to the next. Same login; they finish the next registration.
  • Bulk email and SMS, scheduled, with history. Check-in, floor planner, sessions.
  • Fees, tickets, merch, invoices, POs, donations, sponsorships.
  • API for your other systems. MCP endpoints so technical staff can configure a fair without a ticket for every checkbox.
Full feature catalog →

Nine roles. One event.

Participants, teachers, mentors, attendees, judges, staff, vendors, sponsors, press. A national-scale contest often splits these across several products. You do not have to.

ParticipantsTeachersMentorsJudgesStaffAttendeesVendorsSponsorsPress

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The catalog is searchable and tagged — judging, paperwork, registration, communication, mobile, and the rest. Linked features sit under each item.

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