Kids’ Science Challenge
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| YouTube Space Lab Challenge Opens |
Kid scientists all over the country have
been inventing new kinds of packaging,
space food, and toys and games for
animals. It’s all part of the Kids’ Science
Challenge, the elementary-school science
competition in the United States.
Created by Jim Metzner and funded
by a grant from the National Science
Foundation, each year the KSC selects
three science topics and a group of
scientists and engineers. Students are
asked to propose an original idea or
experiment that relates to one of these
topics. The winning student in each
category will then have the opportunity
to meet and work with the respective
scientist, in addition to winning
great prizes.
Deadline: Feb. 29, 2012
Details: http://www.kidsciencechallenge.com
Web 20.11 Free Resource
and Contest
Discovery Education joined CDW-G
and SMART Technologies to create
Web 20.11, an online destination that
offers free resources in media literacy,
Internet safety, Web 2.0, presentation
tools, and blogs by education experts.
Teachers can also enter the Web
20.11 Tech Tune-up Sweepstakes for a
chance to win an AverMedia AverVision
F50 Document Camera, a trip to ISTE
2012 in San Diego, and a $1,500 digitalmedia
grant from Discovery Education.
Two runners-up will each receive a
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet.
Deadline: December 31, 2011
Details: http://web2011.discoveryeducation.com/
YouTube Space Lab
Challenge Opens
YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation
with Space Adventures and
space agencies including the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), the European Space Agency
(ESA), and the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA), have
announced YouTube Space Lab, a
worldwide initiative that challenges
14- to 18-year-old students to design
a science experiment that can be performed
in space. The two winning
experiments will be conducted aboard
the International Space Station and
live streamed on YouTube.
Students in two age categories, 14
to 16 years old and 17 to 18 years old,
either alone or in groups of up to three,
may submit a YouTube video describing
their experiment to YouTube.com/SpaceLab.
Deadline: December 7, 2011
Details: YouTube.com/SpaceLab
Students Solve Real-
World Challenges
The Conrad Foundation has launched
the 2011–2012 Spirit of Innovation
Challenge, which invites high school
teams to use STEM skills to develop
commercially viable technology-based
products. An interested student team
drafts an online abstract that addresses
five questions about the team’s innovative
idea for first-round judging. From
there selected semifinalists in each challenge
category—Aerospace Exploration,
Clean Energy, and Health and Nutrition—
develop a business plan, a technical
plan, and a graphical representation of
the team’s product or innovation. The
top five teams from each category will
travel to the annual Innovation Summit,
where they will vie for awards.
Deadline: November 11, 2011
Details: www.conradawards.org