Name:
The Heinz Ketchup Creativity™ Contest
URL:
http://www.ketchupcreativity.com
Who Can Participate:
Students in grades 1-12 can participate.
Deadline:
Key Dates
- Contest opens: January 5, 2009
- Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2009
- Burton Morris selects top three finalists in each grade: March 2009
- America votes for grand prize winners: March 20 - March 25, 2009
- Winners announced on or around March 31, 2009
- Winners’ designs exhibited in Winners’ Gallery: April 2009
- Winners’ art appears on 19.5 million Heinz® Ketchup packets: 2009-10 school year
Description:
“Calling all artists! America’s Favorite Ketchup® has announced that the search is on for the next designers of Heinz® Ketchup packets. Since 2006, the Heinz Ketchup Creativity™ Contest has attracted tens of thousands of entries from students in grades 1-12 who imagined having their artwork appear on millions of the single-serve packets. The 12 grand prize winners each will have their artwork reproduced on approximately 19.5 million Heinz® Ketchup packets -- more than 200 million combined, and displayed online in the winners’ gallery. The students also each will receive a $1,000 cash prize. The winning schools will receive $1,000 toward art supplies, $1,000 worth of Heinz Ketchup and a framed poster of the winner’s artwork. The Heinz Ketchup Creativity Contest includes helpful tools for teachers such as grade-specific lesson plans and classroom activities that stress the benefits of eating nutritious foods.”
Name:
No Name-Calling Week Creative Expression Contest
URL:
http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/record/57.html
Who Can Participate:
The contest is open to all students ages 5 to 15.
Deadline:
February 13, 2009
Description:
No Name-Calling Week (January 26 - 30, 2009) is a week of educational activities aimed at stopping name-calling and verbal bullying in schools. The Creative Expression Contest is an opportunity for students to submit essays, poetry, music, original artwork, or other pieces that convey their experiences and feelings about name-calling, and their ideas for putting a stop to verbal bullying in their schools and communities. This year’s contest has been moved to coincide with No Name-Calling Week. The goal is to have students working on their art pieces during the week as a way to learn about and deal with name-calling and bullying. The contest is divided into two judging categories -- primary (ages 5-10) and secondary (ages 11-15). Up to three major winners will be chosen in each category. Winners in the primary category will receive prize packages that may include art supplies, books from Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, A No Name-Calling Week project kit, and assorted educational prizes from No Name-Calling Week Partners. Winners in the secondary category will receive prize packages that may include an Apple iPod, books from Simon and Schuster, a No Name-Calling Week project kit, and assorted educational prizes from No Name-Calling Week Partners.
Name: Now Debate This
URL: http://www.nowdebatethis.com/v2/
Who Can Participate: High-school students across the United States are eligible to participate.
Deadline: Now Debate This will issue a call for video entries to be posted to YouTube.com, by February 28, 2009. The 16 semi-finalists are scheduled to be announced in May. The summer program of exploring energy sources in both students’ home communities and across the United States will begin in late June, ending with the debate tournament in August.
Description: Now Debate This is a national scholarship competition that challenges America’s youth to creatively explore humanities and sciences, developing communications skills to challenge and inspire our society to resolve contemporary issues. The question for this year’s debate is “How can the United States achieve energy independence through the lessons of history?” Debaters will explore such issues as alternative energy, climate change, foreign and domestic policy, economics, innovation and national security, in the quest to develop solutions. The winning debater will be awarded a $150,000 scholarship.
Name:
Futurework 2020
URL:
http://www.tcse-k12.org/futurework
Who Can Participate:
Students in middle school and high school are eligible to participate.
Deadline:
January 31, 2009
Description:
The Thornburg Center for Space Exploration has created a contest for middle and high-school students to imagine new jobs that will exist by the year 2020. In addition to creating an interesting job description, contestants will have to identify the skills needed by applicants for the new positions. Prizes will be awarded in March to the top middle-school entry and the top high-school entries.
Name:
Your Presidential Minute
URL:
http://community.epals.com/groups/elections/blog/archive/2008/11/03/student-contest-your-presidential-minute.aspx
Who Can Participate:
Students in grades K-12 are eligible to participate.
Deadline:
January 10, 2009
Description:
ePals, Inc. announces the launch of Your Presidential Minute, a contest that encourages students to express their voice and views for the president-elect and his administration in the next four years. Contest submissions must be in the form of a one-minute audio recording, one-minute video, 200-word written submission, or a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation, and all submissions should directly address the president-elect. Students are encouraged to think globally and to be creative, such as writing a song, poem or speech to emphasize their points. ePals will compile the best responses online and share them with the president-elect, his transition team, and members of the ePals Global Community. Entries will be posted on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009.
Name: C-Span’s StudentCam 2009
URL: http://www.studentcam.org/
Who Can Participate: StudentCam is open to all middle-school students (grades 6-8) and high-school students (grades 9-12) in the United States as individuals, or teams of three students. The competition is also open to international students and there will be one $500 prize for the best international entry.
Deadline: January 20, 2009
Description: C-SPAN StudentCam is an annual documentary competition that encourages students to think seriously about issues that affect their community and nation. This year's StudentCam topic is A Message to the New President: What is the most urgent issue for the new president to address after taking office, and why? Students are asked to create a 5-8 minute video documentary exploring an issue of national significance that they believe is in need of urgent attention from the new president of the United States. Videos must be the original work of students, although teachers may provide guidance and critiques, and C-SPAN programming must be used to enhance the video documentary. Seventy-five student prizes and eleven teacher prizes totaling $50,000 will be awarded. The contest web site includes tips for student entrants, as well as a standards-based lesson plan designed to introduce the contest and its topic to students.
Name:
Classroom Jeopardy! StandardsLink Competition
URL:
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/jeopardy/contest.jsp
Who Can Participate:
Teachers in K-8 schools in the continental United States are eligible to participate.
Deadline:
The contest begins October 6, 2008. The grand prize drawing will take place January 16, 2009.
Description:
Every Monday beginning Oct. 6, participating teachers can test their knowledge by answering online Classroom Jeopardy! StandardsLink questions. Hosted by ETA/Cuisenaire, an educational publisher and pioneer of manipulatives-based education, the contest allows teachers to go online and answer questions in math, science, and literacy. Each time a teacher answers a question correctly, his or her name will be entered into a prize drawing. Prizes will be awarded throughout the contest, and at the end of the contest, one grand prize winner will be announced. The grand prize is a Classroom Jeopardy! StandardsLink Game Event held at the winner’s school. The grand prize winner also receives a Classroom Jeopardy! game unit, a Classroom Jeopardy! StandardsLink series of cartridges in the winner’s choice of grade levels, and a coupon for 20% off additional Classroom Jeopardy! products from ETA/Cuisenaire.
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.
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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