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This page has been provided by the SJS
parents for the benefit of upper school students. If you (an SJS
upper school student) are interested in completing a project,
parents will volunteer to help you. A database of interested
parents is available and you will be matched with a parent who
has the appropriate expertise.
There are 54 listed contests or projects.
The links in the table will take you to the home page of the
organization sponsoring the competition.
A brief description of each project can be
found below the table .
If you have additional contests/projects you
would like to see added or have suggestions for compiling this
list into a more user-friendly format, please email.
Bridge Building Contest
construction and testing of model bridges promotes the study
and application of fundamental principles physics and also
helps high school students develop "hands on"
skills through bridge construction. By participating in the
Bridge Building Competition students get a flavor of what it
is to be an Engineer, designing structures to a set of
specifications and then seeing them perform their function.
They are also provided with an academically-oriented
extracurricular activity which is recognized school-wide.
Rice University Mathematics Tournament is an annual event for
high school students and teams from schools in the
Texas/Louisiana area. Last year's tournament took place on
February 15, 1997. Organized by Rice undergraduate students,
the tournament has been held almost every year at the Rice
University campus in Houston since 1981. The contest includes
individual written tests as well as events in which groups
work together to solve problems.
- Texas State
Science and Engineering Fair
by the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) and the Institute
for the Academic Advancement of Youth (IAAY) at Johns
Hopkins University, this annual program offers qualifying
seventh grade students the opportunity to take the SAT I
and STB Exams.
Competitions and Contests
the last six years, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
has sponsored an essay contest for juniors and seniors in
high schools throughout Texas, Louisiana and New
Mexico.The Fed Challenge is an academic competition for
high school economics classes, intended to help students
better understand the Federal Reserve and the formulation
of monetary policy.
Music, Art, and Composing
- National Academic Quiz
Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is an organization founded
by veterans of the academic quiz competition circuit to
provide quality questions and tournaments at the
intramural, sectional, and national level. The NAQT
organizers bring considerable circuit experience to this
task and are committed to increasing the quality,
quantity, professionalism, and accessibility of academic
Academic Questions and Answers, QuizNet -
of Educational Contests for Students K-12
ACS Chemistry Olympiad is designed to stimulate interest
and achievement in chemistry at the high school level
through a national competition; and, to identify a team
of four students to represent the United States in the
International Chemistry Olympiad, held in a different
country each year.
AMERICA! is hands-on learning designed to develop
creative thinking and problem solving skills--the skills
needed in today's global workforce. And, our national
student invention contest offers recognition and up to
$1000 U.S. Savings Bond awards. Children learn to
identify problems and eagerly create their own inventions
to solve them! INVENT AMERICA!'s real-life learning
experience promotes confidence, self-esteem and gives
kids a creative leg up.
- The All New
Duracell/NSTA Scholarship Competition
competition is now open to students in grades 7-12 who
are U.S. citizens and reside in the United States or U.S.
Territories. Students may enter individually or in teams
of two. WHAT IT IS: Students design and build working
devices powered by Duracell® batteries.
Debates & Ethical Issues Websites
ComedySportz teams offer beginner and intermediate
workshops. Workshops are how we find new CSz talent, too.
and Competitions for Mechanical Engineers
by the National Geographic Society and coordinated at
Triton by the Pathfinder Enrichment Program, the National
Geography Bee gives our Jr. high students the opportunity
to participate in this rigorous and exciting academic
National Envirothon is an annual competition held for
high school students throughout North America. Designed
as a way to teach kids about environmental education, the
best teams from 40 states and two Canadian provinces come
together during the summer to compete with one another in
five subjects: Wildlife, Forestry, Soil, Aquatics, and
Current Environmental Issues. The winners get nationwide
publicity for their school, and receive Canon National
Envirothon Scholarships that can be used for college !
High School Space Settlement Design Competition
event is an industry simulation set in the future. Teams of
High School students prepare designs for cities in space
where over 10,000 people will live. The Competition is an
exercise of creativity, technical competence, management
skills, environmental knowledge, resources in space,
teamwork, and presentation techniques. Each year the
Competition organizers develop a new design challenge, based
on one of ten settlement scenarios.
Lunch Box Derby
the classroom, students construct and race buggies made
from fresh fruits and vegetables. Teachers submit the
winning car for the national contest, and in late April,
we'll award prizes to the top 16 teams. The best four
teams in the country will join the best team from the
United Kingdom for an all-expenses-paid trip to the
finals in Washington, D.C. in late May, where we'll crown
the 1997 Lunch Box Derby Champs.
- First Step
to Nobel Prize in Physics
First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics (FS) is an international
physics research paper competition for high school students.
- United States Academic
United States Academic Decathlon is an important team
competition wherein students match their intellectual wits
with students from other schools. Students are tested in ten
is a creative writing competition, open to all accredited
high schools and colleges.
year-long National History Day competition is anexciting way
for students to study and learn about historicalissues,
ideas, people and events.
the world the special corners of the place you call home.
is an educational adventure which encourages students around
the world to build Web pages that help them -- and other
students -- prepare for the 21st century. More than a
contest, it represents a new model for learning and teaching.
ThinkQuest helps students bring their classroom subjects
alive for themselves and students everywhere. Already
immersed in multimedia and interactivity, students apply a
different learning perspective that truly engages and excites
other students. In building ThinkQuest Entries, they learn to
harness the power of the Internet, while also creating a
valuable library of Internet educational materials for use
online, in the classroom, and at home.
Education and Technology Alliance
include a 500-word essay on "Why I Love the
Internet." Also, nominees attached copies of
information about Internet projects, included disks of
media projects, offered videotapes, and identified URLs
of sites that they created.
American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) seek to increase
interest in mathematics and to develop problem solving
ability through a series of friendly mathematics
competitions for junior (grades 8 and below) and senior
high school students (grades 9 through 12).
- Cyberspace Middle School - Science
Fair Projects should be FUN and educational, with the
emphasis on FUN. Here are some helpful hints which will
help you think of and carry out a science fair project
you will enjoy learning from.
- InterInternational Mathematics
International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) is an annual
mathematics competition for high school students. It is
one - in fact, the oldest - of the International Science
Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. The
problems come from various areas of mathematics, such as
are included in math curricula at secondary schools. The
solution of these problems, however, requires exceptional
mathematical ability and excellent mathematical knowledge
on the part of the contestants.
International Science Olympiads
international science olympiads are intended for (senior)
pupils at secondary schools all over the world.
- International Science and
and Engineering Fairs offer an exceptional opportunity to
enrich school programs at both the elementary and the
secondary level through encouraging independent project
work, developing displays, having work judged by
professional scientists and engineers, sharing similar
interests with other students, competing for awards, and
receiving local, national, and even international
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel
ISEF) is the Olympics, the World Cup and the World Series
of science competition. Held annually in May, the Intel
ISEF brings together over 1,000 students from all 50
states and 40 nations to compete for scholarships,
tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and
the grand prize: a trip to attend the Nobel Prize
Ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden. Science Service founded
the ISEF in 1950 and is very proud to have Intel as the
title sponsor of this prestigious, international
Science Talent Search
thousands of students who dream of careers in science,
the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (STS) has helped
make that dream a reality. The Westinghouse Corporation
and Foundation have supported the STS in partnership with
Science Service since its inception in 1942. Now in its
57th year it is the nations oldest and most
highly-regarded science competition. The STS has
identified young scientific talent with remarkable
precision: alumni include five Nobel Laureates, nine
MacArthur Foundation Fellows, and two Fields Medalists.
- LearnStar K-6 Competitions: Science
of California Berkeley Lab Projects
is an interactive science magazine for
middle-school and high-school students. This
education-outreach project currently features articles on
the Lab's Advanced Light Source and its applications.
Each "article" has learning activities to help
students understand basic concepts related to the
- Hands on Universe is
a high school astronomy education program that enables
students all over the world to request observations from
an automated telescope, download images from a large
image data archive, display the images using image
processing software, and learn math, physics, and
astronomy using a comprehensive set of well-tested
Particle Adventure, an Interactive Tour of the Inner
Workings of the Atom and the Tools for Discovery, has
been published by the Contemporary Physics Education
Project. The interactive tour is an education adventure
aimed at high school students.
Physics Education Project (CPEP) is
a national organization of physicists and teachers that
creates and provides educational products for high school
and college students, and for other fans of physics.
These products include the Chart of Fundamental Particles
and Interactions, a full-color chart about particles such
as quarks and gluons and the fundamental forces. It
answers the question, "What is the world made of and
what holds it together?"
- The ABC's
of Nuclear Science describes
basic principles of nuclear physics and includes a set of
experiments introducing students to the properties of
radioactivity. Local teachers can check out the equipment
necessary for these experiments from the Oakland Chabot
Science Center after taking a short training course.
- The Virtual
Frog Dissection Kit allows
interactive dissection of a frog, and includes the
capability to make on-the-fly movies.
Lung Tour consists
of a set of microscopic images of the lung that allows
viewing of its structure in increasing detail. The tour
begins with a whole lung that has been opened to show the
branching airway. From there, you can zoom in to the
surface of this airway at different positions at higher
and higher magnification. Lung Tour is a joint
educational project of the Lung Microscopy Group in the
Life Sciences Division, the National Center for Electron
Microscopy, and the Imaging and Distributed Computing
Group in the Information and Computing Sciences Division.
NSTA Craftsman Inventors Awards
awards program encourages students to combine their
creativity and imagination with science, technology,
and mechanical ability to invent and build a tool or
modify an existing tool
The All New Duracell/NSTA
competition is now open to students in grades 7-12 who are
U.S. citizens and reside in the United States or U.S.
Territories. Students may enter individually or in teams of
two. WHAT IT IS: Students design and build working devices
powered by Duracell® batteries.
- NSTA Space Science Student
competitions encourage students in grades 3-12 to
incorporate science, math, technology and art into
science exploration. Future Aircraft/Spacecraft Design
Team Competition, grades 3-5 Mission to Planet Earth Team
Project, grades 6-8 Mars Scientific Experiment Proposal,
grades 9-12 Aerospace Internships, grades 9-12
Intergalactic Art Competition, grades 3-12
Toshiba NSTA Exploravision Awards
is a competition for students of all interest, skill, and
ability levels in grades K-12, who are U.S. citizens or legal
residents, living within the United States, U.S. Territories,
or Canada. The purpose of the competition is to encourage
students to combine their imaginations with the tools of
science and technology to create and explore a vision of the
- Odyssey of the Mind
- Odyssey of
the Mind is a world-wide, nonprofit organization that
promotes creative team-based problem solving in a school
program for students from kindergarten through college.
The program helps students learn divergent thinking and
problem solving skills while participating in a series of
challenging and motivating activities, both inside and
outside their regular classroom curriculum.
Online Educational Resources
Part of the
mission of the High Performance Computing and
Communications program is to foster increased use of new
computer and networking technologies to help support
accelerated learning programs in education . These rough
listings provide pointers to some online resources for
students and educators, as well as to projects that
address these goals.
- Other Informatics Competitions
International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is an annual
competition in the discipline of informatics (computing
science) for senior pupils at secondary schools all over
the world. The IOI has a relatively short history and, we
hope, a long future among the International Science
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab Regional
Competitions Access Excellence Resource Center
Programs and Scholarships sites
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Science Education Programs
Department of Energy and the Laboratory are science-rich
resources that are able to provide exceptional enrichment
and motivating experiences for both students and
- This annual
contest is for for 6-12th graders (11-18 years old) from
anywhere in the world. Students develop space settlement
designs and related materials. These are sent to NASA
Ames for judgement. Due date is 31 March 1998. For more
International Chemistry Olympiad
International Chemistry Olympiad is held every year in
early July. The basic idea of such an international
competition is to compare the standards of basic science
education between the participating countries. Each
participant country selects a four-membered team of
students for the competition. The competitors must be
under 20 years of age, and they must be from a secondary
school (ie, they may not have received any special
education in chemistry). Training courses are allowed.
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Science Fairs
- This Library
page is an attempt to provide a single comprehensive list
of every science fair accessible through the World Wide
Web, whether of global or local scope. Here's how to make
corrections or add new science fairs to the list.
- Making a World of Difference
competitions and calendar
- The USACO is
an annual computer programming competition for high
school students in the United States. It is sponsored by
USENIX and hosted by the University of
Wisconsin-Parkside. The goal of the USACO is to select a
team of four students to represent the United States in
the annual International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
This year the 9th IOI will be held in South Africa from
November 30th to December 7th, 1997 . The first team from
the United States was formed in 1992.
- What's New in the TENET Web
and contests for Texas students
- Bayer/NSF Award for Community
- The Bayer/NSF
Award for Community Innovation is a competition that
challenges sixth through eighth grade students to
identify issues affecting their communities and to use
the scientific method to solve them. The Award is
designed to foster curiosity, creativity, team
cooperation, critical thinking skills, service to the
community and citizenship in youths with diverse
backgrounds, interests and abilities.
- Who is Involved in a Science
- Helpful site
for planning and conducting a science fair project
Federation of National Mathematics Competitions
- The World
Federation of National Mathematics Competitions is an
organisation of national mathematics competitions
affiliated as a Special Interest Group of the
International Commission for Mathematical Instruction
These pages authored and
maintained by Marcella Dawson. Revised: July 01, 1998. Copyright © 1995 CRPC
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