[HighTek]

The science club at my school wants to start a science fair. Obviously it comes with much preparation. How does one go about actually starting something like this?

It is at a community college level, we have 9 other "sister" schools that fall under the same district, so collaboration is very possible.

[LQ43]

You could start with something like a mini Scifest with your sister colleges. Obviously lots of communication and contacts need to be initiated.

"SciFest is a local one-day science fair held in third level colleges and open to all second level students. A SciFest fair includes a competition and exhibition of projects, a selection of science talks, science demonstrations in the college laboratories and a prize-giving ceremony. SciFest aims to encourage a love of science through an investigative approach to learning and to provide an opportunity for students to display their scientific discoveries. "
http://www.scifest.ie/about.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P81ulrHxLbw

Or start smaller and jump in with National Chemistry Week (coming up soon Oct 19-25th)
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=1033&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1