The Global Challenge Award
The Global Challenge Award encourages students ages 14-17 to form teams to address a global issue. This challenge is appropriate for my biofuels students involved in creating energy solutions for the global energy crisis in liquid fuels.

Net Gen Education Challenge
How to Enter.

Simply upload your video telling us how you would change the education system. Submit your answer by March 31, 2009 to be eligible to win.

Creative Writing Competition
The President of the USA is a busy man but you have a chance to tell him about some critical issues facing the world today.

Could you help him to understand the life of a child who goes to work instead of school? Maybe you can describe how climate change is affecting people in developing countries? Or perhaps you can advise him on how to tackle world hunger to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. Your Task

Tell us what you would write to President Obama on one of these critical global issues:

* Child Labour * Climate change and the developing world * World hunger

Your letter can be in the style of a factual essay or a fictional story on one of the issues.

Think you can win? You can find out about prizes and download the competition poster and the rules poster at this site.

Fourth Annual National DNA Day High School Essay Contest
Open only to grades 9-12

The contest aims to challenge students to examine, question, and reflect on the important concepts of genetics. Essays are expected to contain substantive, well-reasoned arguments indicative of a depth of understanding of the concepts related to the essay questions. Only 9th - 12th grade students are eligible this year. All essays must be received by March 16, 2009 by 5:00 pm EST. All submissions must be electronic. Please review the rules before submitting the essays.

Dupont Challenge/Science Essay Award
The DuPont Challenge© Science Essay Competition gives you an opportunity to put your thoughts on paper—not only expressing yourself, but sharing your ideas with others. The only limits—besides the contest’s 1,000-word limit—are your own enthusiasm, your research, and your interest in studying and presenting a fascinating aspect of science or technology.

Toshiba Exploravision
Deadline: January of every year.

Now in its 15th year, ExploraVision encourages K-12 students of all interest, skill and ability levels to create and explore a vision of future technology by combining their imaginations with the tools of science. All inventions and innovations result from creative thinking and problem solving. That's what ExploraVision is all about.

We Can Change The World Challenge
The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge gives students the opportunity, tools and inspiration to become those agents of change. Beginning in the Fall semester through March of the next year, middle school student teams from across the country will be challenged to create sustainable, reproducible environmental improvements in their local communities

Junior First Lego League (Robotics)
Registration occurs in the Fall (August to mid-October).

Created in partnership with the LEGO Group, Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) is geared to children aged 6 to 9 years old and utilizes a modified FIRST LEGO League (FLL) framework. Teams of up to 6 children and an adult mentor receive a mini challenge, based on the annual FLL research project. Using an open-ended LEGO building set, they will design a model depicting an aspect of this year’s "Nano Quest" Challenge. Children will spend approximately one month exploring, investigating, designing and building a model made with LEGO bricks. In conjunction, teams create a "Show Me" poster that depicts the teams’ experience during this process, through drawings and words.

Young Scientist Challenge
Requires participation in a locally sponsored Intel affiliated science fair. See me for more details if you are interested.

Welcome! If you're a student, teacher, or parent ready to embark on the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, you've come to the right place. Below you'll find everything you need to become part of the most exciting science competition for kids in 5th through 8th grades. Good luck!

2009 Cliff Weiss Memorial Essay Contest
Deadline: Feb 13, 2009.

The 2009 topic is "What would you tell President Obama about your CTE experience?"

Maximum Award: $250 and publication in ACTE's Techniques Magazine. Eligibility: students enrolled in at least one CTE course.