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Today, Nancy Conrad, founder and chairman of the Conrad Foundation, extended invitations to innovative teens worldwide to ignite their genius in the Spirit of Innovation Challenge. The annual program is a multi-phase business and technical plan competition, free and open to students ages 13-18.
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Future City Competition is a national competition that is up and running. Information can be found at http://futurecity.org/ . “The Future City Competition is a national, project-based learning experience where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade imagine, design, and build cities of the future. Students work as a team with an educator and engineer mentor to plan cities using SimCity™ software; research and write solutions to an engineering problem; build tabletop scale models with recycled materials; and present their ideas before judges at Regional Competitions in January. Regional winners represent their region at the National Finals in Washington, DC in February.
This flexible, cross-curricular educational program gives students an opportunity to do the things that engineers do—identify problems; brainstorm ideas; design solutions; test, retest and build; and share their results. This process is called the engineering design process. With this at its center, Future City is an engaging way to build students’ 21st century skills. Students participating in Future City:
• Apply math and science concepts to real-world issues
• Develop writing, public speaking, problem solving, and time management skills
• Research and propose solutions to engineering challenges
• Discover different types of engineering and explore careers options
• Learn how their communities work and become better citizens
• Develop strong teamwork skills”
The research essay challenge for this year is: Identify a problem of moving people in your future city and design a mode of transportation to solve this problem.
ECybermission is a STEM initiative offered by the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP), http://ecybermission.com/ . There are a variety of missions that can be undertaken by teams to meet a variety of interests of students participating. Mission challenges include Alternative Energy Sources, Environment, Food, Health & Fitness, Forces & Motion, National Security and Safety, Robotics, and Technology.
Invention Convention information should be online soon, http://www.just-think-inc.com/columbus/ and appears to be open to Columbus Ohio region. I was unable to find if the program is available elsewhere. What I did find on the website was a lot of information that could be used was the Lesson Planning Guide at http://www.just-think-inc.com/columbus/ There were ideas that could be used in other STEM classes with success. I would love to know if the competition is available nationwide or if it is just a regional competition.
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America’s Home Energy Education Challenge (AHEEC) is a national student competition, created to help families save money by saving energy at home. AHEEC engages students in elementary and middle schools to make smarter energy choices that reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels and put money back in their parents pockets. This initiative aims to educate America's youth about the benefits of energy efficiency, motivate students to play a more active role in how their families use energy, and help families across the country reduce their energy bills. Participating schools and organizations compete for more than $50,000 in prizes that will be distributed at the regional and national levels of the competition.
Official registration for the Challenge ends November 15, 2013. To register to join America's Home Energy Education Challenge or to find more information about the competition click here.
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eCYBERMISSION is a free, online collaborative learning competition for students in grades six through nine offered by the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP). Sponsored by the U.S. Army and administered by NSTA, eCYBERMISSION is one of several science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The competition challenges students to think about real-world applications of STEM by working in teams to identify a problem in their community and use the scientific practices or the engineering design process to find a solution. Students compete for state, regional and national awards, with potential winning of up to $8,000 (maturity value) in U.S. savings bonds.
Registration for the competition is now open. Students registered by November 1st will receive a Free STEM Research Kit. All registered teachers will receive an eCYBERMISSION Starter Kit, which includes lessons, resources and tools available to introduce the competition in the classroom. To learn more about the eCYBERMISSION program and to register, click here or via email at: ecybermission.
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The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Quiksilver Foundation have created a competition for student teams designed to spark interest in science and the ocean. QuikSCience Challenge projects include the creation of an ocean science lesson plan, community service project, research project proposal, an innovative solution to an environmental challenge, portfolio,and a creative presentation of your work. For more information go to Quikscience
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The SPARK competition challenges participants to reimagine the chemistry set for the 21st century and generate a new set of experiences and activities that encourage imagination and interest in science, recapturing the spirit of the chemistry set.
SPARK applications can be in one of two categories: ideation or prototype and can address any or multiple areas of science. Entrants must be over 18 years old and legal residents of the United States or U.S. citizens temporarily living abroad.
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The Future – Powered by Fiction
The Competition
The Future Powered by Fiction provides a space for young people to participate in science-based conversations and share their imaginative designs for the future.
In collaboration with the Society for Science & the Public, ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination and the Intel Foundation, the Tomorrow Project has announced an innovative fiction competition geared at 13- to 25-year-olds worldwide, asking them to contribute science fiction stories, essays, comics and videos to explore the kinds of futures we want to work toward together.
Here's a step-by-step guide explaining how to enter the competition and join the conversation.
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Students today are immersed in video games, computer games, and now their phones and tablets. How about making games that include learning? Below is the link for the competition and I have included a website that can guide students by providing examples of educational games.
STEM Video Game Challenge: Create video games to teach a concept in math and science.
STEM video game challenge
Examples of educational games
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Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology: A competition for high school students Siemens Foundation Website. Top prize is a $100,000 scholarship. This is a good competition to help encourage your students to participate in writing a real research paper on a science topic.Students must write a research paper and present if they reach the finalsCompetition rules and applications
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K-12 Video Contest - White House Student Film Festival
Yeah, having your schoolwork posted on the fridge at home is cool. But having a video you made posted on the White House website and screened at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? We think that’s pretty cool, too. That’s why we’re super-excited to announce the
first-ever White House Student Film Festival: a video contest created just for K-12 students, and whose finalists will have their short films shown at the White House. Finalist videos may also be featured on the White House website, YouTube channel, and social media pages.
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