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Name:
Kids' Science Challenge
URL:
http://www.kidsciencechallenge.com/
Who Can Participate:
U.S. students in grades 3-6 are eligible to participate.
Deadline:
The Kids! Science Challenge competition launches on October 1, 2008. The first 1000 entries will receive free science activity kits.
Description:
The Kids! Science Challenge encourages third to sixth graders, individually or in collaborative groups, to submit experiments and problems for a group of scientists and engineers to solve. The web site also includes a rich variety of resources, such as Kids!
Science Challenge videos to help kids understand and appreciate the basic principals of science. Prizes include trips to visit the scientists in their laboratories or in the field, a Celestron NexStar SE computerized telescope, SkyScout® Personal Planetarium® and
digital microscopes, a visit from pro skateboarders, a week at Camp Woodward locations, Gravity skateboards and CreateAskate kits, a Sea Eagle kayak and World Book science libraries and reference books.
Name:
eInstruction Interactive Classroom Makeover Contest
URL:
www.eimakeover.com
Who Can Participate:
The contest is open to all primary and secondary teachers and students in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Deadline:
October 24, 2008
Description:
eInstruction, a provider of interactive learning solutions announces the company’s second annual Interactive Classroom Makeover Contest. Participants are asked to create a short music video demonstrating how their classes currently use or would like to use technology to enhance instruction. Video can be submitted via the official contest website from September 15, 2008 to October 24, 200. Finalists will be announced on October 31, 2008 and winners will be announced on December 3, 2008. Three teachers (one each from grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12) will win an interactive classroom worth more than $25,000 each.
Competition Name: Bubblewrap Competition for Young Inventors
URL: http://www.nmoe.org/bubblewrap/index.html
Who Can Participate: Students in grades 5-8 are eligible to enter
Deadline: November 3, 2008
Description: “Sealed Air Corporation, the creator of Bubble Wrap® cushioning, is sponsoring the Bubble Wrap® Competition for Young Inventors to encourage students in grades 5-8 to demonstrate their creativity and ingenuity by creating an invention that incorporates the use of Bubble Wrap® cushioning. Three finalists will win a three-day trip to New York City, where the Grand Prize Winner will be announced on Bubble Wrap® Appreciation Day, January 26, 2009. The Grand Prize Winner will receive a $10,000 savings bond, while the 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive $5,000 and $3,000 respectively in savings bonds. The teacher/mentor of each finalist will receive a $500 gift card.”
Competition Name: Online Math League
URL: http://www.onlinemathleague.com
Who Can Participate: Online Math League contests are open to school and homeschool teams and to individual students around the world. Grade-level specific contests are offered at 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, and Algebra levels.
Deadline: The first contest may be taken anytime in November, the second contest may be taken anytime between January 15 and February 15, and the third contest may be taken anytime in March.
Description: Online Math League contests consist of three fun, challenging math contests spread throughout the school year. The tests are grade-level specific (second grade through Algebra), are aligned with state and national math standards, and offer problems of varying difficulty levels so students of all abilities are appropriately challenged. Each Online Math League contest consists of fifteen multiple-choice questions; students can take the tests online or as paper and pencil tests. The cost is $99 (US dollars) to register a grade-level team for the entire school year. For an individual child, the cost is $39.
Competition Name: Technology in Motion 2: Community of the Future
URL: http://www.techinmotioncontest.com/
Who Can Participate: School groups whose members are residents of the United States are eligible.
Deadline: All Call for Entries forms must be received by October 15, 2008. Entries must be received by April 1, 2009.
Description: Presented by Sony Creative Software with the support of the International Society for Technology and Education (ISTE), the Technology in Motion project is a complete educational program created for teachers to use in multimedia courses as a structured curriculum. The contest is designed to engage students in professional video and audio production. The theme for the contest, "Community of the Future," encourages students to share their vision of how technology will shape their community in the future. Every school that submits a qualifying Call for Entries form will receive film submission guidelines and a Technology in Motion launch kit containing a free copy of Sony Vegas Pro 8 Promotional Edition video editing software, a free copy of Sony Cinescore Promotional Edition soundtrack creation software, free Sony Vegas Pro and Sony Cinescore video tutorials, 1,001 royalty-free, motion picture sound effects, an assortment of Cinescore themes for royalty-free soundtrack creation and a free electronic copy of the Vegas Pro 8 Digital Video & Audio Production teaching guide.
Name: Teachers in Space
URL: http://www.teachersinspace.org/
Who Can Participate: Any K-12 teacher in the United States is eligible to participate.
Deadline: Ongoing
Description: The nonprofit Teachers in Space program -- a project of the Space Frontier Foundation and the United States Rocket Academy -- has announced the start of a competition to select two teachers who will be the first astronauts to fly in space and return to teach in American classrooms. Those pathfinders astronauts will fly on flights donated to Teachers in Space by suborbital companies. They also will help develop training programs for the large numbers of teachers who follow. The program actually involves two competitions: The first competition will select a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teacher; applicants will be asked to submit a proposal for an experiment that can be performed on a suborbital spaceflight. The second competition will select a K-12 teacher from any subject area; applicants will be asked to submit a lesson plan or educational module based on some aspect of human spaceflight. All submissions will be posted to a Wiki website where they will be available to the entire educational community.
Competition Name: World of Escher Tessellation Contest
URL: http://www.worldofescher.com/contest/
Who Can Participate: The contest is open to students and adults.
Deadline: Ongoing.
Description: Using the art work of M.C. Escher as a model, students create their own tessellations. The best submissions will be posted on The World of Escher.
Competition Name: USA Mathematical Talent Search
URL: http://www.usamts.org/
Who Can Participate: All U.S. middle and high school students are eligible to participate.
Deadline: Ongoing (New competitions are introduced four times a year.)
Description: The USA Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) is an individual mathematics competition held
four times a year. Problems -- which range in difficulty from being within the reach of most high school students
to challenging the best students in the nation -- are published on the contest Web site one month before solutions
are due. Students may use any materials -- books, calculators, computers -- to solve the problems, but all work
must be their own. Although prizes are awarded, the USAMTS is an individual challenge; its competitive role
is secondary.
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