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Young scientists challenge Discovery Education and 3M are looking for students in grades 5-8 to inspire us with their enthusiasm for science. The winner will receive $50,000 in U.S. Savings Bonds and much, much more! To enter, simply send us a video about the science of everyday life.
EngineerGirl Essay Contest for boys and girls ages 8-15 to solve problems dealing with engineering and its impact on our world. Cash prizes are offered (First-place $500, second-place $250, third-place $100).
NASA's Waste Limitation Management and Recycling Design Challenge Design a water recycling system for the unique environment of the Moon. Test your system on a simulated wastewater stream and report your proposal and its results to NASA.The top team nationally will win an expense-paid trip to the NASA Kennedy Space Center for VIP tours, meetings with NASA scientists and engineers, and much more!
Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest for ages 10 to adults.
West Point Bridge Design Contest
The West Point Bridge Design Contest is open to US students age 13 through grade 12 at the time of registration. Students compete individually (team of one) or in teams of two members. This engineering competition involves designing truss bridges. Each member of the first-place team receives a $10,000 scholarship. Each member of the five finalist teams wins a notebook computer.
ThinkQuest is an annual team competition in which students ages 9-19 create innovative and educational web sites. Prizes include laptop computers, MP3 players, and digital cameras.
Team America Rocketry Challenge Team America Rocketry Challenge is a national model rocket competition open to US junior high school and high school students (grades 7-12). It is sponsored by AIA and the National Association of Rocketry. The top 100 teams compete for $60,000 in scholarships.
Disney's Planet Challenge is a free nationwide, project based environmental competition that empowers students to make a difference in their schools. Open for students in grades 6-8.
National Pest Management Association contest: students enrolled in grades 4-8 can create educational television public service announcements discussing the health risks posed by household pests.
KidsKnowIt Network Contest Children may enter science contest as a class, or individually and must be between the ages of 1 and 18. Entries must be in one of the science disciplines (submitted in art; photography; essay or project category).
Cambridge Science Festival’s Curiosity Challenge Students grades 1-12 are invited to write an essay, draw or take a picture about their curiosity and tell us how it prompted them to explore the world.
Neuroscience for Kids POETRY WRITING CONTEST Students grades 1-12 are invited to write poems, limericks and haiku about the nervous system in the style for the corresponding age group.
TOYchallenge A national toy design challenge for 5th-8th graders. As girls and boys create a toy or game, they experience engineering as a fun, creative, collaborative process.
Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors Students are invited to demonstrate their creativity and ingenuity by creating an invention that incorporates the use of rubber bands. For students in grades 5 - 8. The first place winner in each division will receive a $5,000 savings bond, while the runner-up in each division will receive a $2,500 savings bonds respectively. The top 8 semi-finalists who are not chosen as finalists will each receive a $50 gift card.
The Kids' Science Challenge is a free nationwide competition for 3rd to 6th graders, made possible by the National Science Foundation. Students submit ideas or problems in our science fields and if their idea is chosen, they get to visit and collaborate with the scientist to see their idea come alive.
The Ocean Flag Contest is sponsored by National Geographic Society; begins November 1, 2009 and ends February 20, 2010. open to students of ages from 8 to 14. Design a beautiful, colorful flag to symbolize our Ocean Now expeditions. If you win, your design will be made into a flag and fly on our National Geographic Ocean Now expedition ship in 2010
The Young Naturalist Awards Plan and conduct your own scientific investigation and tell about your investigation in an essay that includes tables, charts, or graphs and artwork or photographs that help illustrate your findings. Two scholarships ($500-$2,500) are awarded to the winning essays at each grade level (grades 7-12).
DuPont Challenge invites students grades 7 – 12 to write a 700- to 1,000-word essay about a scientific discovery, theory, event or technological application. Winners receive savings bonds up to $5,000 and an expenses paid trip to Walt Disney World and the Kennedy Space Center.
Toshiba Exploravision ExploraVision is a science competition that 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. The first prize consists of a $10,000 US Savings Bond for each student on the winning team. The second prize consists of a $5,000 US Savings Bond for each student on the winning team.
West Point Bridge Design Contest
The West Point Bridge Design Contest is open to US students age 13 through grade 12 at the time of registration. Students compete individually (team of one) or in teams of two members. This engineering competition involves designing truss bridges. Each member of the first-place team receives a $10,000 scholarship. Each member of the five finalist teams wins a notebook computer.
Middle School Regional Science Bowl - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Regional Middle School Science Bowl® is a two-part, highly publicized competition. It involves a model hydrogen fuel cell car competition and a math and science academic competition. The top three teams in each part of the competition are awarded trophies, and the winning team is invited to Washington, D.C. to participate in the National Competition. In 2005, more than 2,000 students participated in twenty-four regional competitions throughout the nation. BNL hosts the LI/NY regional competition. All Long Island Middle School students are invited to participate.
MagLev Contest - The concept of MagLev (Magnetic Levitation) trains was developed and patented by two BNL scientists, James Powell and Gordon Danby. Brookhaven National Laboratory provides students with the opportunity to show off their creativity and innovation by participating in BNL’s annual MagLev competition. Long Island middle schools are invited to enter technology students in the competition. Students can choose from several vehicle design categories, such as self-propelled, electrified, gravity, wind powered, or appearance. The student vehicles, which are designed and constructed at school, are brought to BNL to compete against one another. BNL engineers judge the contest and trophies are awarded to first, second, and third place winners in each category.
Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge Student teams of 2-3 conduct research to learn about the issues that affect their community and select one issue that they truly want to impact. They propose a feasible, measurable solution to positively impact their issue and an action plan to help them carry it out.
Long Island SCIENCE CONGRESS is inviting Middle school students (grades 7 and 8) to enter the Junior Division Congress and submit science research projects requiring project proposals, abstracts, reports and oral presentations based upon actual experiments and/or field observations, performed by the participants themselves. These projects require physical displays, the use of instrumentation and scientific materials, collection of field or experimental data, data analysis and representation of findings.
The STANYS New York State Science Congress encourages students (grades 7 and 8) present their research orally to judges, community observers, and other students, in a lecture format. They are judged on the quality of their work, as revealed by their written and oral presentations.
The International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment (for children between the age of 6 and 14 years) is organized every year by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation. It has been held since 1991 and has received more than 2.4 million entries from children in over 100 countries.
Summer Programs
Summer programs at the Dolan DNA Learning center
Fun with DNA (entering grade 6 or 7) immerses students in activities and experiments designed to build a strong foundation in biology. Through model-making, microscope observations, and laboratories – including DNA extraction and genetic engineering – participants build an understanding of cell biology, microbiology, genetics, and biotechnology.
NEW! Forensic Detectives (entering grade 9 or World of Enzymes alumni entering grade 8) is a follow up to World of Enzymes and an introduction to forensic science for CSI enthusiasts. Although DNA is a useful crime-solving tool, it certainly isn't the only weapon detectives have in their crime-fighting arsenals! Through a series of labs and activities, participants will experience forensics in a more realistic fashion than portayed on prime time TV.
Green Genes (entering grade 9 or World of Enzymes alumni entering grade 8) introduces students to recombinant-DNA techniques used to manufacture human insulin and other biotech products. Participants use restriction enzymes and bacteria transformation to clone a jellyfish gene and then purify the resulting green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the transformants.
Chemistry: Summer "Pre-Chemistry" Camp This dynamic, week-long residential program (July 11-16, 2010) in Alfred University provides a great head start for students aged 13-15 who are interested in science but have not yet taken a high school chemistry class.
Oxbridge Academic Programs. Summer study abroad - variety of science courses for junior high and high school students in Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Montpellier and Barcelona.
Science Exploration Camp at Stony Brook University is a laboratory-based exciting science program that will complement the students' science curriculum and challenge them to think, reserach and experiement. Open for students entering 7th, 8th or 9th grade.
WiE CHEER (CHEmical Engineering Rocks!) (Female Students only) is a six-day, residential summer program for young women who are going into grade 9 in the fall following the camp.
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