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Name: The Ultimate Science Fair Sweepstakes
URL: http://elmers.discoveryeducation.com/site/index.cfm
Who Can Participate: Only legal U.S. residents are eligible to participate. Entrants who are under 18 years of age must obtain permission from a parent or legal guardian prior to participating.
Deadline: May 31, 2008
Description: In partnership with Elmers, Discovery Education will be sending a delegation of 3 students, 3 parents and 3 teachers from the winning school who will win a trip to the Discovery Education Young Scientist Challenge, including airfare, hotel and meals, and the opportunity to participate in the DEYSC events and challenges. In addition, five second place winners will receive $1,000 in prizes from Discovery Education and Elmer's. To enter, participants cast a vote for their school. The school with the most votes relative to its student enrollment wins.
Competition Name: Samsung’s Hope for Education Essay Contest
URL: http://www.hopeforeducation.com
Who Can Participate: Students, teachers, parents -- anyone who knows of a school in need -- is eligible to participate.
Deadline: August 31, 2008
Description: Hope for Education was created by Samsung in 2004 to support U.S. K-12 schools with the latest technology products. Each year, the program challenges students, teachers, parents -- anyone who knows of a school in need -- to write an essay discussing the importance of technology in education, and explaining how technology would benefit their designated school. Essays will be evaluated by an independent judging committee, and winners will earn various awards of Samsung products for their designated school. The top winner will receive a grand prize of more than $200,000 worth of Samsung technology, Microsoft software, cash grants from DIRECTV, and the SCHOOL CHOICE® educational television programming package.
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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