Learn about cutting-edge energy research, projects and ideas at the 2024 Climate Showcase!

About the Climate SHOWCASE

The Climate Showcase is a research and project poster exhibition and prize contest, where attendees and participants can enjoy light refreshments and drinks while learning about innovative energy research, projects and ideas from student researchers themselves! Attendees range from startup founders and funders to world renowned scientists, to community members and student peers interested in learning about the fascinating energy research going on right here in the Bay Area. Email energy_summit-berc [at] berkeley.edu with any questions!

The BERC Climate Showcase is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your ideas, research, thesis, or project to the entire community. Entries are welcome from all Berkeley students across all disciplines and departments, and winners will share in a substantial prize pool. This year's Showcase has two segments: Research Symposium and Innovation Expo. Research Symposium is geared towards STEM research, while Innovation Expo will highlight projects in spaces such as policy, business, economics, social sciences, architecture and so on.

Awards in each segment:

First place: $1000
Second place: $500
Third place: $250

Audience Choice Award: $500

The Climate Showcase will be held in the Pauley Ballroom on Friday February 9th, 2024 9 am - Noon, in conjunction with the career fair.

General guidelines

Target Audience: Members of the energy community, University of California Berkeley, and the public at large. Posters and presentations should both make an impression on the judges and be understandable to the majority of Showcase attendees.

Project Parameters: A good project is at a point where outcomes or conclusions can be reported, and a question is being answered. Projects are welcome from all departments and universities, granted that the topic relates to energy and climate in some fashion.

Effort to engage non-experts: The Climate Showcase is a way for all participants (including non-experts) to learn and engage with student research, projects and ideas. We are also hoping that this offers students a new way of thinking about presenting their work to a broader audience then they might encounter in a standard academic conference.

Application Specifics: For participation in the Climate Showcase, a separate abstract and poster will need to be submitted. All abstracts and posters are subject to approval. Please submit a concise abstract of 4-6 sentences that conveys the overall topic area, methods and conclusion. If a high-school science student was reading the abstract, would they have a good sense of what your research is trying to accomplish?

Poster Design Specifications: For BERC to print your poster it must be submitted in PDF format, size 36″ x 48″ (or 48” x 36”). We cannot print any other sizes or formats. We cannot provide any quality control for your poster regarding picture quality, etc. If you bring your own poster, we can be more flexible with the poster size.