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Thailand’s National Science Fair is an annual two-week event held to promote science, encourage learning and prove that science is for everyone. Derived from the first ‘Thai National Science Day’ in 1982, the fair now hosts over 1 million visitors, with exhibits from over 50 national and international companies and institutions from governmental, educational and commercial sectors. Whilst the fair is normally held in Bangkok the outreach program holds mini fairs for 32 Universities and numerous schools across the nation for local participation in science week. This paper discusses the past, present and future of the fair, incorporating existing evaluation findings and identified key challenges. Science Festival in Thailand In 1982 the Science Society of Thailand (under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the King) proposed to the Thai Cabinet that August 18th each year should be designated as ‘Thai National Science Day’. It was chosen on this date to commemorate the day in 1868 that King Rama IV of Thailand had predicted a full solar eclipse would take place in the Southern province of Thailand. The King achieved this prediction over 150 years ago when there were neither computers nor calculators. With a strong interest in and comprehension of science and astronomy, the King proved to the people that an eclipse was a scientific phenomenon and can be predicted through the understanding of science. King Rama IV is honored in Thailand as ‘The Father of Thai Science’. After the Cabinet approval of the National Science Day, the first Science Festival in Thailand began in the same year, organized by the Science Society of Thailand using the National Science Center for Education in Bangkok as a venue (see Figure 1). Two years later in 1984, the Ministry of Science and Technology took part and organized a special event called ‘National Science Week’ which became very popular not only for the scientific community, but with the youth and the public. Deemed as a success, The Thai Cabinet announced that ‘National Science Week’ was to be an annual event and JCOM 13(04)(2014)C04 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

National Science Festival of Thailand: historical roots, current activities and future plans of the National Science Fair