Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute (deadline February 12; scholarship for high school juniors to attend Aspen Ideas Festival) Full details: CLICK HERE
Welch’s Harvest Grants (deadline February 6; tools, seeds, educational materials, and more)
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U.S. Department of Energy/Progressive Automotive X Prize Dash+ Contest (deadline February 1; design an automobile dashboard of the future)
Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program (deadline February 2; $5,000-$10,000 U.S. Savings Bonds for winning student teams that design innovative technologies)
Now in its 18th year, ExploraVision is a science competition that encourages K-12 students of all interest, skill and ability levels to create and explore a vision of future technology by combining their imaginations with the tools of science. All inventions and innovations result from creative thinking and problem solving. That’s what ExploraVision is all about.
Learn how to enter the competition.
AAA’s 66 th Annual National Traffic Safety Poster & PSA Contest is now in progress. All students in grades K-12 are eligible to enter and to compete for a total of nearly $20,000 in awards!
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“Kids in Micro-g!” is a student experiment design challenge geared toward grades 5-8. Its purpose is to give students a hands-on opportunity to design an experiment or simple demonstration that could be performed both in the classroom and aboard the International Space Station.
The winning experiments will have observably different results when the experiments are performed in the “1-gravity” or “1-g” environment of the classroom, compared to when the experiments are performed by astronauts in the “Micro-g” (one-millionth of 1-g) environment of the space station. The apparatus for the demonstration must be constructed using materials from a materials tool kit provided to the astronauts on board the space station. The tool kit consists of materials commonly found in the classroom and used for science demonstrations. Read the rest…
If you are inspired by the use of everyday objects as art, then Scotch Brand wants to see your creativity come off the roll and into the art space. The Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest, sponsored by 3M, is inviting creative minds to submit photos of their unique tape sculpture — constructed from Scotch Packaging Tape — for the chance to win a $5,000 cash prize. Submissions will be judged by a panel of noted artists and can be voted on by visiting www.OfftheRollContest.com no later than Read the rest…
In a nutshell, we are asking kids to come up with an original idea or design that relates to three fields of scientific inquiry or engineering: Sports on Mars, Detective (forensic) Science, and Bio-Inspired Designs. The Entry that is judged in each field to be the most original will win the Grand Prize for that field Read the rest…
In its continuing efforts to educate youth on what it means to be safe at work and what occupational safety and health professionals do every day to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has launched its 8th annual kids’ “Safety-on-the-Job” poster contest. Read the rest…
Are you America’s next great inventor? The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), The Akron Global Polymer Academy, and The University of Akron are hosting the 2010 Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors to encourage students in grades Read the rest…
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