The Fair was held on March 18th and 19th 2005 in the Talmagde Hill Field House on the campus of Morgan State University. Sixty-five individual and fifteen team high school projects, as well as thirty-eight individual and thirteen team middle school projects were judged.

The top projects from several public elementary schools in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, grades 2-5 were also exhibited for special recognition in the Winners Corner. These projects were not judged.

Individual and team projects from grades 6-12 were judged in the categories of Physical Science, Biological Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Mathematics and Computer Science and Engineering, in both the junior and senior divisions. Immediately following the judging, each participant received an award of participation from Morgan State University as well as an appreciation award from the National Society of Black Engineers-Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter.

A parent workshop took place while students' projects were being judged, and there were forty parent participants. Some of these projects included hands-on activities that illustrated the processes in developing Science, Mathematics, Engineering projects, and a discussion of the value of developing science fair projects

More than fifty judges from academia, government, military, private and public industry judged projects in their areas of expertise.

Volunteers included Baltimore City and County School educators, Morgan State University faculty and students, and family and friends of the Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Fair.

     The winning awards were announced during the Awards Banquet held in the McKeldin Center Ballroom on Morgan State University's campus that was attended by more than 300 persons. This included participants, parents, teachers, judges, sponsors and contributors.

The keynote speaker was Mrs. Felicia Jones-Selton, the Associate Division Chief at the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center Instrument Systems and Technology Division. She is a product of the inner city public school system and sought to instill confidence as well as a "you can succeed" attitude in the participants.

Special awards were presented in many categories. These included United States Army, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association District of Columbia Metropolitan Area Branch, United States Department of the Navy, National Society of Professional Engineers Innovative Engineering Award, Yale Science and Engineering Association Inc. to the Most Outstanding 11th Grade Exhibit, NACE Foundation Certificate of Merit, Herbert Hoover Young Engineer Award, the United States Air Force and the United States Army Award.

The Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Steering Committee Honoree Awards presented included the Dr. Kenneth Jerkins Special Achievement Award for High Achievement in Biology, Dr. Esther Ridley Special Achievement Award for High Achievement in Biology, Dr. Eugene DeLoatch Special Achievement Award for High Achievement in Engineering, Ernestine LeCator Special Achievement Award for High Achievement in Biochemistry/Biology, Dr. Charles Salters Special Achievement Award for High Achievement in Biology/Environmental Science and the Dr. Ernest Silversmith Special Achievement Award for High Achievement in Chemistry.

In addition, eighteen middle school students, first, second and third place winners in each of the categories judged, were nominated to participate in the 2005 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge sponsored by Discovery Communications Inc., and Science Services. Finalists and their parents will travel to Washington D.C. to participate in a week of Challenges in Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Since the Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Fair is an International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) affiliate, the two top senior winners of the 2005 Morgan State University Fair received an all expense paid trip to the ISEF to be held in Phoenix Arizona from May 8th to 14th 2005. These students are Elizabeth Carey Banks whose project was "The Effects of a 5-HT1a Antagonist on Resting Neurogenesis in TS65Dn" and Wayland Chen whose project was "The Effects of Free Volume Due to Relaxation on the Strength of the Amorphous Metal Pd40Ni40P20". They are both students of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Their teacher will accompany them on this novel opportunity.