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Explain why you are America’s “safest teacher” and win a $10,000 classroom makeover! The National Center for Missing & Exploited

Children and Honeywell will recognize teachers who have shown an exceptional commitment to child safety in the fifth annual Got 2B Safe! Awards program. Read the rest…

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Tell us why you are America’s “safest teacher” and win the ultimate classroom makeover! The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Honeywell will recognize teachers who have shown an exceptional commitment to child safety in the fifth annual Got 2B Safe! Awards program. Five Grand Prize winners will receive a classroom makeover and technology revamp worth $10,000! Log on to www.Got2BSafe.com to tell us your ideas on how to keep kids safer using the Got 2B Safe! Four Rules by March 26, 2010. Teachers showing the greatest commitment to keeping children safer can receive: Classroom Makeover worth $10,000 (Five Grand Prize winners) School Supply Gift Certificate in the amount of $500 (100 winners) Thank you for your time and commitment to our nation’s children.

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will soon open at Universal Orlando Resort, and if you meet the qualifications, you could be there for the grand opening!By answering the question “Why is my class extraordinary?”  All Details:  CLICK HERE

Are you a K-12 educator? Register for Doodle 4 Google, a competition where students design the Google logo using a theme. The winning student gets a $15,000 college scholarship, $25,000 to the school for new computers, and a chance to have his or her design on the Google.com homepage.

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Calling on all student artists! Submit your GEF Power in Action t-shirt design and you could win $250 for your class and wear your design on Earth Day 2010. Each student in your class will also receive t-shirts with your winning design! Read the rest…

The GLOBE Program has announced a global student effort to collect water quality and hydrology data from around the world during the week of March 22-26, as part of World Water Day (March 22). Teachers and students are encouraged to use this data as a foundation for research and inquiry about the state of the world’s water. The results of these GLOBE efforts will be showcased at Live Earth events around the world in April 2010 (See ‘GLOBE Partners with Live Earth’ under ‘Previously Broadcast’).

To learn more about World Water day, visit: http://www.globe.gov/content/event/WWD10.

For more information on GLOBE and Live Earth, visit: http://www.globe.gov/content/event/LIVE_EARTH.

Nature’s Voice Our Choice’s World Water Day: Students Give Water a Voice Competition (deadline March 22;)

Water around the world is in trouble!  Every community’s essential water supply is threatened each day by a multitude of sources that can contaminate it.  As an essential component of our daily lives, water quality needs to be assessed and addressed now and in the future.  For some communities, water appears to be clean, but it is not safe.  For others, it is visibly undrinkable.  In all cases, water can be polluted both at the source and along the way to our faucets and water fountains. Read the rest…

Organization for Tropical Studies/Pearson Education Miller Levine Tropical Biology Scholarship (deadline March 1; opportunity for teachers to travel to Costa Rica and explore tropical ecosystems)

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DASH+ challenges high school teams to use their creativity, science, technology, engineering, and math skills to design, describe, and pitch the next generation of automotive dashboards.

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The Allstate Foundation (TAF) is calling for teens to either write an article and have it published in their school newspaper or write and produce a broadcast news segment for their high school news station to help raise awareness about the dangers of texting while driving.  Students can win up to $3,000 in cash.

Please visit www.KeeptheDrive.com/journalist for story topic ideas, startling facts and other writing resources. Submissions will be accepted now through March 20, 2010.