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History

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Science
  • 1999 SEMO Regional Science Fair - downloadable forms and other information for teachers about the 43rd Annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair.
  • 2001 University of Vermont Design TASC Competition - competition for Vermont high school students who design a device to solve a given problem and then compete against each other.
  • And Now... A Word from Our Planet - challenges students to write radio ads that will educate listeners about the connection between human population pressures and the environment.
  • Aventis Biotech Challenge - series of science competitions and educational outreach programs to encourage young Canadians to pursue post-secondary studies and careers in biotechnology.
  • California State Science Fair - the final science fair of the academic year for students in grades 7-12 throughout the State of California.
  • Christopher Columbus Awards - contest in which middle school students develop science-based solutions to community problems.
  • Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair - includes calendar, rules, forms, and maps for the event.
  • The Dupont Challenge/Science Essay Awards Program -
    Participants: Students in grades seven through twelve.
    Format: Students are required to submit essays of six hundred to one thousand words on a scientific topic and its impact on society. Research is completed via a library or Internet search; Awards: Educational grants.
    For Information Write To:
    Science Essay Awards Program
    c/o General Learning Corporation
    60 Revere Drive, Suite 200
    Northbrook, IL 60062-1563
  • Greater Philadelphia Homeschool Science Fair - for homeschoolers in grades K to 12 from southeast Pennsylvania.
  • Hawaii State Science & Engineering Fair (HSSEF) - general information and guidelines, forms, project examples, and list of past winners.
  • Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) -
    Participants: Students in grades nine through twelve.
    Format: Round. I. Regional. Students submit completed independent research papers to regional coordinators. Selected papers are then presented to judges. The forty-five regional symposia are conducted throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and various United States Army bases around the world. Round II. National. Students who placed first at each of the regional competitions compete in the national Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. The alternates also attend the presentations.
    Awards: Round I. Regional. One finalist and four alternates are selected to attend the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. Only the finalists will present and compete at the national competition. Round II. National. Scholarships and an expense-paid trip to the London International Science Youth Forum.
    For Information Write To:
    Academy of Applied Science
    98 Washington Street
    Concord, NH 03301
  • Lunch Box Derby 1997 - students construct and race buggies made from fresh fruits and vegetables.
  • National Envirothon - a team competition for North American high schools, testing students' knowledge of wildlife, forestry, soil, aquatics, and current environmental issues.
  • Northern New England Junior Science and Humanities Symposium - provides a forum for high school students to present the results of their research, meet and exchange ideas, and interact with practicing researchers.
  • Prince George's Science Fair Association - receives all the winning projects from all of the schools in Calvert, Charles, Saint Mary's, and Prince George's counties.
  • PRSEA High School Student Solar Design Contest
  • Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair - science fair championships for youths. Adults who wish to judge the projects can register at the site.
  • Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit - from April 15-18, 1997.
  • Science Olympiad Logo

    Science Olympiads - This is an inter-scholastic competition consisting of a series of 32 individual and team events that encourage learning in biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, problem solving and technology. Events in the Science Olympiad have been designed to recognize the wide variety of skills that students possess. While some events require knowledge of scientific facts and concepts, others rely on science processes, skills or applications. This ensures that everyone can participate, including students from technology classes or advanced science classes. All events involve teamwork, group planning and cooperation. That is the real essence of the Science Olympiad. Our emphasis is on advanced learning in science through active, hands-on, group participation. Through the Olympiad, students, teachers, coaches, principals, business leaders and parents bond together as a team working toward a common goal.
  • South Africa Expo for Young Scientists
  • University of Toronto - Leonardo da Vinci Competition - national annual engineering-oriented competition for senior high school students in Canadian secondary schools or first year CEGEP. Cash and scholarship prizes.
  • Web Directory: World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Science Fairs - list of science fairs both global and local in scope.

Science Fair

Technology
  • BEST inc. - Robotics competition
  • FIRST Competition - The FIRST Robotics Competition is a national engineering contest which immerses high school students in the exciting world of engineering. Teaming up with engineers from businesses and universities, students get a hands-on, inside look at the engineering profession. In six intense weeks, students and engineers work together to brainstorm, design, construct and test their "champion robot". The teams then compete in a spirited, no-holds-barred tournament complete with referees, cheerleaders and time clocks.
  • CSRA Regional Engineering and Science Fair, Inc. - non-profit organization designed to promote and encourage students in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia to investigate the worlds of engineering and science.
  • DIME is a NASA competition program which allows teams to design and build a science experiment which will then be operated in a NASA microgravity drop tower facility. This program is a project-oriented activity which lasts one school year for the selected teams. Teams will be comprised of high-school-aged students from (for example) a science class, a group of classes, a science club, or a scout troop. A team must have an adult advisor, such as a teacher or parent. Early in the school year, teams interested in competing will develop an experiment concept, prepare a proposal for an experiment, and submit the proposal to NASA. A NASA panel will evaluate all of the submitted proposals and select the four top-ranked proposals. These four teams will then continue their experiment development and fabrication leading to operation in the NASA drop tower in April.
  • High Mileage Vehicle Challenge (2)
  • IMSTEA Supermileage Challenge
  • Intel Talent Search Logo

    Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) - Previously known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search Competition. This is a research competition for all seniors. The competition relies on a vast background of science experiences as well as a summer research project.
  • ISTF

    Internet Science and Technology Fair (ISTF). The program challenges students to use National Critical Technology (NCT) applications - as defined by the RAND Corporation in conjunction with the Office of Science, Technology and Policy - to solve real-world problems using information technology tools. Students develop critical thinking skills as they work on-line with practicing professionals and publish their final research findings in a webpage format.
  • NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP)
  • Siemens Logo

    Siemens Westinghouse - Science and Technology Competition
    Participants: High school students. Students may enter either individually or in teams of up to three students.
    Format: Round I. Six geographic regional competitions. Round II. National competition for regional finalists. Interviews with finalists.
    Awards: Over one million dollars in total awards annual Medals and awards to regional winners and semifinalists. Internship opportunities for successful participants. National champion award.
    For Information Write To:
    Siemens Foundation
    170 Wood Avenue South
    Iselin, NJ 08830
    Toll free: 1-877-822-5233
    Email: foundation@sc.siemens.com
  • Southeast Michigan Science Fair - affiliate of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
  • Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair - guidebooks, forms, newsletters, and request mentors.
  • TEAMS
  • The Edventures in Robotics Challenge (ERC)
  • Welcome to Team America Rocketry Challenge!
  • West Point Bridge Design Contest

Other
  • Scholastic

    The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have celebrated 80 years as a unique presence in our nation's classrooms by identifying and documenting outstanding achievement of young artists and writers in the visual and literary arts. Since 1923, 12 million students have participated, 2 million young artists and writers have been recognized, and $20 million in awards and scholarships have been made available.
  • HIGH SCHOOL WRITING COMPETITIONS Nora DeLoach and Dwight Humphries Memorial Competitions. CASH PRIZES: $100 First Prize; $70 Second ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL WRITERS TAKE NOTE! The "Circle of Young Writers" contest for the Anchee Min Library Circle event will be for short stories, and the deadline is January 20th. Find the entry form at http://www.literarycircle.org/contest.html
  • National High School Mock Trial Championship

    The National Mock Trial Championship was initiated in 1984 in Des Moines, Iowa, with teams from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin participating. After the success of the tournament in Iowa, more states became interested in participating and the tournament became billed as an "All-State" Tournament. The tournament is hosted annually by different states to ensure that the cost of running the tournament doesn't fall on the same state more than once.
  • The Academic Decathlon (TM) is a team competition wherein students match their intellects with students from other schools. Students are tested in ten categories: Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Science, and Speech.
  • Southern Voices - Creative writing competition for high school seniors across the South. Winning entries are published in the Southern Voices Journal. Since 1995, Southern Voices has provided a venue for the best creative writing of high school students across the South. This year, students from 10 southern states submitted 3,000 manuscripts for consideration.
  • International -
    Participants: Students in grades nine through twelve. Students may enter either individually or in teams of up to three students.
    Format: Round I. Regional. Students submit completed science, engineering, and math independent research papers to regional coordinators. Selected papers are then presented to judges. Two students and one team are named finalists from each of the regional competitions to compete in the international event. Some of the project categories are behavioral and social science, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, computer science, Earth and space sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, mathematics, medicine and health, microbiology, physics, and zoology. Round II. International. At the INTEL ISEF, students set up poster presentations and are interviewed by a panel of Judges. The international fair is held annually in different cities throughout the world.
    Awards: More than five hundred fifty competitive awards are presented to the students.
    Sponsor: The ISEF is administered by Science Service and funded by the INTEL Corporation.
    For Information Write To:
    Science Service
    1719 N Street NW
    Washington, DC 20036
  • International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) - The Intel ISEF is the Olympics, the World Series and the World Cup of science competition. Now in its 49th year, the Intel ISEF is the world's only science project competition for students in the ninth through twelfth grades. The Intel ISEF brings together students, teachers, corporate executives and government officials from around the world. Students compete for over $2 million in scholarships, tuition grants, scientific equipment and scientific trips. See Long Island Science and Engineering Fair (LISEF).
  • Duracell Scholarship Competition - Students create and invent items that use batteries. Some the items that the students have built include page turners (2nd place United States), Automatic Post - It Note (2nd Place United States) and an Alarm Clock for the Blind (3rd Place in the United States). Students may work in teams of two or alone.
  • ThinkQuest: Internet Challenge - The purpose of the competition is to promote the Internet Style of Learning - an interactive, participatory style that encourages students to take advantage of the Internet as a constantly growing source of information and as a powerful collaborative tool. Students work in teams of up to three students to create web sites for the use of other students.
  • Test of Engineering Aptitude in Math, Science and Engineering (JETS/TEAMS) - This annual competition is open to all students in the Metropolitan New York area. Students work in eight member teams to solve engineering problems. The program enables teams of high school students to learn team development and problem-solving skills, often with an engineering mentor, and then participate in an open-book, open-discussion engineering problem competition. Teams learn how the mathematics and science concepts they are learning in high school are applied to real-world problems.
  • International Bridge Building Competition - Students build a bridge out of balsa or basswood according to specifications and constraints. Students compete in a regional competition at NYIT. Finalists compete in an international competition.
  • Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) - JSHS invites high school students to conduct an original research investigation in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics, and to participate in a regional or state symposium sponsored by universities or other academic institutions. This is a two-day forum for research students in the Metropolitan New York area.
  • NASA Science Involvement Program - The NSIP is a national program of investigations and design challenges. NSIP links students directly with NASA's diverse and exciting missions of research, exploration, and discovery. By participating in these competitions and learning activities, students design space missions, investigate Earth from space, explore Earth systems in their neighborhood, and learn about the latest developments in aeronautics, and Earth and space exploration. NSIP is a wonderful opportunity for students to learn science by doing science.
  • Stony Brook Research Support Symposium - A four-day introduction to research for high school students. The program is divided into Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics/Computers Science/Engineering and Social Sciences. Students meet professional scientists, make platform and poster presentations, eat lunch with scientists and tour science labs. Every Independent Research student is involved in this program. Every senior (and some juniors) is invited to make a poster presentation at the Symposium.
  • Toshiba Exploravision - ExploraVision is a competition for students of all interest, skill, and ability levels in grades K-12. The purpose of the competition is to encourage students to combine their imaginations with the tools of science to create and explore a vision of a future technology. To prepare an entry, students work in groups of three or four, simulating Research and Development (R&D) teams, along with a teacher advisor and an optional community advisor. Each team selects a technology, or an aspect of a technology that is present in the home, school, and/or community or any other technology relevant to their lives. For example, they may choose something as simple as a pencil or as complex as a CD-ROM. They will explore what it does, how it works, and how, when, and why it was invented. The students must then project into the future what that technology could be like 20 years from now. Finally, they must convey their vision to others through both a description and storyboard (a series of scenes from a would-be video).

Elementary/Middle School
  • AT&T Virtual ClassroomThe Contest is a web site design competition for teams of students from all over the world. Each team or "virtual classroom" consists of students and teachers from three different schools in three different countries. Teams collaborate on projects as varied as creating a multimedia newspaper, writing a "round robin" story, or planning a colony on Mars. Students plan, write, produce and program the web site. Open to elementary, junior and senior high school students.
  • Bayer/NSF Award for Community Innovation - A team will identify a community problem, look into it, come up with an innovative solution, refine the solution and have fun doing it! Grades 6 through 8.
  • Duracell Scholarship Competition - Duracell Scholarship Competition: Students create and invent items that use batteries. Some the items that the students have built include page turners (2nd place United States), Automatic Post - It Note (2nd Place United States) and an Alarm Clock for the Blind (3rd Place in the United States). Students may work in teams of two or alone. Grades 6 - 8.
  • Knowledge Master Open - The Knowledge Master Open is a curriculum based quiz bowl competition. Two hundred challenging question that require higher level thinking skills covering fourteen different curriculum areas are presented to the students. The competition is designed to stimulate enthusiasm for learning and recognition for academic accomplishment. The contest runs on classroom computers to allow all students the opportunity to compete in a large academic event without the expense of traveling to a central site.
  • MATHCOUNTS - A national math coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grass roots involvement in every US state and territory. MATHCOUNTS promotes student interest in mathematics by making math achievement as challenging, exciting and prestigious as a school sport. At the beginning of each school year, the MATHCOUNTS foundation provides a complimentary copy of its School Handbook to middle schools across the country. Teachers and volunteers use these problems and activities to coach student "Mathletes" (6th, 7th and 8th graders) as part of in-class instruction or as an extracurricular activity.
  • Odyssey of the Mind - The Odyssey of the Mind School Program fosters creative thinking and problem-solving skills among participating students from kindergarten through college. It features an annual competition component at local through international levels. Students solve problems in a variety of areas -- from building mechanical devices such as spring-driven vehicles to giving their own interpretation of literary classics. Through solving problems, students learn lifelong skills such as working with others as a team, evaluating ideas, making decisions, and creating solutions while also developing self-confidence from their experiences. The OM Association also develops activities to integrate these skills into regular classroom curricula. Grades K - college.
  • Science Olympiad - Science Olympiad Regional: Each team of 15 will prepares to compete in Science Olympiad tournaments held on local, state and national levels. These inter-scholastic competitions consist of a series of 32 individual and team events that encourage learning in biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, problem solving and technology. Events in the Science Olympiad have been designed to recognize the wide variety of skills that students possess. While some events require knowledge of scientific facts and concepts, others rely on science processes, skills or applications. This ensures that everyone can participate, including students from technology classes or advanced science classes. All events involve teamwork, group planning and cooperation. That is the real essence of the Science Olympiad. Our emphasis is on advanced learning in science through active, hands-on, group participation. Through the Olympiad, students, teachers, coaches, principals, business leaders and parents bond together as a team working toward a common goal. The events for middle/junior high school this year are: Battery Buggy, Bio Process Lab, Bottle Rocket, Don't Bug Me, Earth, Sea and Sky, Experimental Design, Fossils, Mission Possible, Mystery Architecture, Nature Quest, Naked Egg Drop, Pentathlon, Physical Science Lab, Propeller Propulsion, Reach for the Stars, Road Scholar, Science Crime Busters, Science of Fitness, Surfing the Net, Trajectory, Water Quality, What are you trying to tell me? and Write It, Do It.
  • ThinkQuest - The purpose of the competition is to promote the Internet Style of Learning - an interactive, participatory style that encourages students to take advantage of the Internet as a constantly growing source of information and as a powerful collaborative tool. Students work in teams of up to three students to create web sites for the use of other students. Ages 12 - 19.
  • ThinkQuest Junior - ThinkQuest Junior is a program that engages the strong interest of younger students in computers and the Internet. It gives them and their teachers a structure for integrating computers and the "Internet Style" of learning into their everyday lives. Launched in 1997, ThinkQuest Junior is for girls and boys to work together in teams of up to six students. Coached by their teachers, teams build Web-based educational materials. Grades 4 - 6.
  • Young Inventors Awards Program - The Young Inventors Awards Program is open to all students in grades 3-5 and 6-8 in the United States and the U.S. Territories. Students must work independently to conceive and design their tool inventions. The student, with guidance from a teacher-advisor, parent, or significant adult, will design and build a tool. The tool must perform a practical function, including (but not limited to) tools that mend, make life easier or safer in some way, entertain, or solve an everyday problem. Students must send in the completed form (signed by the student, parent, and teacher-advisor), Inventor's Log (must be 3-7 pages in length), diagram of the tool, and a photograph of the student demonstrating the tool. . Grades 3- 5 and 6 - 8.

High School Student Engineering
  • Bayer/NSF Award for Community Innovation (Christopher Columbus) - Competition for teams of middle school students (sixth, seventh, and eighth graders) to find creative solutions to problems in their communities.
  • BEST inc. is a nonprofit organization that sponsors a robot design contest for high school students. Robots are student designed and build and the contest is offered to the schools at no cost. BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) is organized as hub sites serving a regional area. At the present time there are 10 hub sites in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado.
  • The Edventures in Robotics Challenge (ERC) - Junkyard Wars, Battlebots, Robot Wars, Sumo Wrestling Robots and more! In the past few years there has been a tremendous surge of interest in mechanical challenges, invention, and robotics. For educators, this phenomenon has provided some wonderful resources for inspiring and motivating children in the areas of math, science, technology, & engineering. In direct response to this need, PCS Edventures developed a new and exciting competition called "The Edventures in Robotics Challenge" (ERC). The ERC is designed to be used at any time throughout the year to generate enthusiasm, prepare students for problem solving challenges, and create a real-world teamwork scenario for students to experience. The ERC is a challenge program designed to be more "approachable" for ALL educators: 1) it does not require any travel; 2) it is inexpensive; and 3) it allows you to utilize materials you may already own. It is also a great way to get some hands-on experience with this type of learning activity before you commit to one of the more extensive programs.
  • FIRST - High School Robotics Competition - FIRST, which stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, run the annual event, which culminates in a National Tournament at EPCOT Center in Florida. Thousands of high school students, teachers, and corporate engineers participate. The FIRST Competition features head to head matches between radio-controlled robots from teams made up of high schools and corporate sponsors from around the country. The exciting matches are the culmination of weeks of intense work on strategy, design, manufacturing, and practice by the students, teachers, and corporate engineers. Students experience the excitement of engineering and competition, and they come away with the feeling that science, math, and technology are fun. Over 200 teams competed in FIRST in 1998. The annual competition is open to all pre-college schools and sponsors in North America.
  • FutureCity - Welcome to the National Engineers Week Future City Competition. The Future City Competition, now in its eighth year, asks middle school students from around the nation to create-first on computer and then in large, three-dimensional models-their visions of the city of tomorrow.
  • Junior Engineering and Technical Society (JETS) -
    1. Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Math, and Science (TEAMS)
    Participants: Grades nine through twelve. Schools may enter teams of four to eight students on both varsity teams and junior varsity teams.
    Format: The TEAMS exam is given in two parts. The first part consists of a series of objective (multiple choice) questions related to various engineering situations. The second part requires students to describe and defend their solutions to open-ended, subjective questions related to some of the problems they worked through in part one.
    Awards: Vary from year to year.
    2. Engineering Design Challenge
    Participants: Grades nine through twelve.
    Format: This competition requires teams of students to design and build a working model of a solution to a societal problem that is given to them. Students are given a set of specifications and constraints. The actual problem changes from year to year. An unlimited number of students may work on the project. However, only five students may present the finished project at the competition.
    Awards: Scholarships and prizes.
    For Information Write To:
    JETS
    1420 King Street #405
    Alexandria, VA 22314
  • National Junior Solar Sprint - A U.S. Department of Energy program where student teams in grades 6-8 construct model solar-powered cars and race them.
  • NEDC - A hands-on national engineering design competition The National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC) is a cooperative program with the National Society of Professional Engineers and the National Talent Network, challenging teams of students often working with an engineering adviser, to design, fabricate, and demonstrate a working solution to a social need. Here are some resources on competitions and contests for students of all ages that promote awareness about energy technologies and issues, including energy efficiency and renewable energy.
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers: Student Robotics Challenge - Students are judged on their application of manufacturing principles and concepts and their ability to solve manufacturing-related problems through a team approach.
  • Student Vehicle Competitions - Information from the U.S. Department of Energy on competitions involving vehicle technologies for students in elementary grades to university level.
  • West Point Bridge Contest

    West Point Bridge Design Contest - The United States Military Academy is pleased to offer the third annual West Point Bridge Design Contest. The purpose of this Internet-based competition is to provide middle school and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering. Anyone may enter the contest, but only U.S. students age 13 through grade 12 are eligible to compete for prizes. Students may compete individually or in teams to two. Prizes include cash scholarships and notebook computers. Participation is FREE! The Qualifying Round of the contest runs from January 8 to April 5, 2004.

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