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Lemelson-MIT Awards
The Lemelson-MIT Prize is a $500,000 award presented to an American inventor-innovator for outstanding inventiveness and creativity in the field of science, medicine, engineering, or entrepreneurship. Annual awards are also presented to outstanding college and high school innovators. Website includes an "inventor of the week" feature and extensive links and other resources. |
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American Computer Science League
ACSL organizes computer science contests and computer programming contests for junior and senior high school students. Website includes schedule, sample questions, and related links. |
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Future City Competition
Working with a teacher and an engineer, student teams design a future city using a computer program and then build a scale model of a section of their city. Teams must also write a 500-word essay on a specific engineering topic and make an oral presentation of their work. The winners of regional contests compete at the national level for awards sponsored by various organizations and businesses. |
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Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science
TEAMS is an open-book, open-discussion engineering problem competition for high school students. The problems and questions posed are similar to those faced by college freshmn in "engineering fundamentals" courses. The program, sponsored by JETS, provides high school student teams the opportuning to develop teamwork and problem-solving skills, with the help of an engineering mentor. |
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Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Award
The Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program challenges students to use their creativity and imagination, along with their science, technology, and mechanical ability, to invent or modify a tool. The competition runs from late August to mid-March with separate divisions for grades 2 through 5 and 6 through 8. |
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Tech Challenge
The annual Tech Challenge competition engages hundreds of Bay Area student teams (grades 5-12) in a fun, collaborative process devising solutions to a technology challenge. This challenge is based on a a real-world engineering problem from current events. |
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Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the world's largest precollege science competition. Young scientists from around the world come together in May of each year to share ideas, showcase cutting-edge science projects, and compete for more than $3 million in awards and scholarships. Rules and guidelines, as well as science and engineering resources, are available on the ISEF website. |
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Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision Awards
The Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision Awards encourage students to combine the tools of science with their own imaginations to create a vision of future technologies. Teams of two, three, or four students simulate research and development teams, with the guidance of a team coach and mentor (optional), select a technology or an aspect of a technology relevant to their lives. They then imagine what the technology will be like 20 years from now and convey their vision to others through written descriptions and five graphics simulating web pages. |
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Draper Prize
The Charles Stark Draper Prize is a preeminent award for engineering achievement. This annual prize honors an engineer or group of engineers whose accomplishments have significantly improved the quality of life, improved people's ability to live freely and comfortably, and/or permitted access to information. The $500,000 award is intended to increase public awareness of the contributions of engineers and technology to the welfare and freedom of humanity |
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Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
The National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon Prize is a biennial cash award of $500,000 given to an individual or small group of individuals for a specific project/program or for a body of work over a period of years. The prize is intended to encourage improvements of engineering and technology education relevant to the practice of engineering, the maintenance of a strong, diverse engineering workforce, innovation and inventiveness, and the promotion of technology development. |