The emphasis is on visual presentation, data collected or experiments done, and communication of results. Before the Fair, presenter's communications take place in private, using both email and private Web pages. WSU also provides preFair facilitation for groups wanting to study the same project. Communications between participants and Fair organizers take place online throughout the project. Faculty at WSU working with their students facilitate the Fair by mounting the exhibits online and by focusing on the instructional outcomes of the Fair and its online communications.
Projects can be on topics from science, mathematics, or science and mathematics combined.
Once all posters have been submitted via the Internet by the published deadline, they are judged according to preset criteria by a panel of teachers, teacher educators, future teachers and students who meet online. Posters chosen by the judges as deserving of awards are displayed on the web and online visitors to the fair are invited to add their comments to those of the judges.