AVID Resources
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AVID Information
What is AVID? (Google Slides Presentation)
AVID National Snapshot
AVID Georgia Snapshot
AVID Website
Classroom Documents
Bi-Weekly Learning Log
Binder Rubric
AVID Documents
Testing Help
PSAT Student Guide (2023-2024)
PSAT Student Guide (Fall 2025)
PSAT Practice Test
6th - 8th Milestone Online Study Guides and Test Practices
8th Grade End of Course Online Study Guides and Test Practices
Scholarships and Contests
Eligibility: Middle and high school students who create a 5-6 minute documentary addressing the year’s given theme
Amount: Varies
Deadline: January 20, 2026
Eligibility: Open to students who write an essay on how the world can reach one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through engineering.
Amount: Up to $500
Deadline: February 1, 2026
Joan Myers Brown Equity Scholarship
Eligibility: Open to Black, college-bound, intermediate and advanced dancers between 7 and 22 years of age.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: April 30th & October 15th, of every year
Eligibility: Open to students aged 4 to 18 who use kindness, creativity, and collaboration to help solve real-life problems and make a difference.
Amount: Multiple awards worth up to $100,000
Deadline: May 1, 2026
Eligibility: Open to middle and high school students who create an unconventional art/think piece based on their “unique connection to nature.”
Amount: Up to $1,000
Deadline: June 8, 2026
Eligibility: Open to students ages 13 to 18 who create an engaging STEM-related video project that effectively communicates the student’s chosen topic.
Amount: Up to $250,000
Opens: May 1, 2026
Eligibility: Open to students aged 8 to 16 who carry out individual environmental action projects.
Amount: $500
Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholars Program
Eligibility: Open to academically outstanding seventh-grade students who plan to eventually attend college and who demonstrate financial need
Amount: Varies
Opens: February 5, 2026
Eligibility: Open to K-12 students enrolled in school instrumental programs. The scholarship is not open to private music students.
Amount: $1,000
Eligibility: Open to filmmakers between 13 and 25 years of age who submit 3-6 minute-long films on critical women’s issues.
Amount: Up to $5,000
Deadline: October 1
Eligibility: High school students in grades 6-8
Amount: $500 to $5,000
Deadline: October 31
Davidson Fellowships are awarded by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to US students under age 18 who have completed a significant piece of work in the fields of Mathematics, Science, Technology, Music, Literature, Philosophy or Outside the Box. The significant piece of work should have the potential to benefit society. The focus of the program is on gifted and talented students and there is no minimum age for eligibility.
Deadline: February 11, 2026
Google is famous for the doodles that occasionally replace the Google logo. The Doodle 4 Google competition challenges children in grades K-12 to create their own play on Google’s logo. Doodles are judged in four grade groups: K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. There is one national finalist in each grade group and the winner’s school or after-school program also receives a technology grant.
Deadline: December 3, 2025
ONE EARTH FILM FESTIVAL YOUNG FILMMAKERS CONTEST
Award: Up to $1,000
Eligibility:
Open to school students in grades 3 through college (ages 8 and up) from the United States.
GPA Requirement: No GPA Requirement
Requires Creating a Film
Award: $1,500
Eligibility:
Applicant must be 14 years of age or older, be a resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia
GPA Requirement: No GPA requirement
Requires Essay
Award: $1,500
Eligibility:
Scholarship is open to students 14 years of age or older who are legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia
GPA Requirement: No GPA Requirement
Requires Essay
Stossel in the Classroom Essay & Video Contests
Our contests invite students to tackle big ideas, sharpen skills, and express themselves in thoughtful, creative ways. Middle school, high school, and college students compete in divisions (which vary by contest) for recognition and cash prizes.
Submission Deadline: March 13, 2026
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is awarded annually to ten US and Canadian students, aged 8-18, who have developed an extraordinary service project that helped people and the planet. Half of the winners are focused on helping their communities and people, and half are focused on protecting the environment. Winners receive $10,000 to be applied to their higher education or to their service project.
We believe that changing the future of conservation begins with small steps: with great ideas that drive impact in YOUR community. We believe that together, our ideas and actions will add up to progress protecting our planet and improving our future.
We invite 13-18-year-olds to submit a 1-minute video describing their idea for solving environmental issues for a chance to receive up to $10,000 USD.
Submissions are due by February 6, 2026
The National History Day Contest is open to students in grades 6-12 in the junior (grades 6-8) and senior (grades 9-12) divisions. The projects relate to a specific historical topic or theme. There are seven categories, including individual papers, individual exhibits, group exhibits, individual performance, group performance, individual documentary, and group documentation.
The annual National Marbles Tournament awards scholarships to mibsters (marble shooters) aged 7 to 14. The tournament is held in June each year.
Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition
The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition is open to students in grades 7-12.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are open to US and Canadian students in grades 7-12. It is sponsored by Scholastic Inc. and administered by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc. Gold Portfolio Award recipients receive $10,000 scholarships.
Eligibility: Open to middle and high school students who submit an appropriately prepared genealogy
Amount: Up to $500
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Eligibility: Open to students who write an essay on how the world can reach one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through engineering.
Amount: Up to $500
Deadline: February 1, 2026
Eligibility: Middle and high school students who create a 5-6 minute documentary addressing the year’s given theme
Amount: Varies
Deadline: January 20, 2026
Eligibility: Open to middle and high school students who create an unconventional art/think piece based on their “unique connection to nature.”
Amount: Up to $1,000
Deadline: June 8, 2026
MARYKNOLL STUDENT ESSAY CONTESTS
Award: Up to $1,000
Eligibility:
The contest is open to students enrolled in grades 6-12 for the 2018-2019 school year who are residents of one of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, or a province of Canada (except Quebec).
GPA Requirement: No GPA Requirement
Requires Essay
Award: $5,000
Eligibility:
Scholarship is open to students age 13 years of age or older who are legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and are currently enrolled in an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education.
GPA Requirement: No GPA Requirement
Requires Essay
Award: $2,500
Eligibility:
Scholarship is open to school students 14 school years of age or older who are legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia
GPA Requirement: No GPA requirement
Requires Essay
ALL ABOUT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
Award: $3,000
Eligibility:
Scholarship is open to students 14 years of age or older who are legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia
GPA Requirement: No GPA Requirement
Requires Essay
Skill Building Activities
City Guesser
City Guesser is a geography based browser game that strives to provide an exceptional travel and guessing experience.
5 Clue Mystery Location
In each of these videos you'll get 5 clues to guess a location. Start by numbering your paper 1 through 5. After each clue, pause the video, do research, and write down a guess. See how quickly you can guess the location. Mystery location videos are broken into 5 groups to help with page loading times.
5 Clue Mystery Animal
Each one of these videos gives you 5 clues to guess an animal. After each clue, pause the video so that students can do a little research. After the research, have each student take a guess. See how quickly they can guess the answer. Mystery Animal videos are broken into 2 groups to help with load times.
Free Rice
Each time you answer a multiple choice vocabulary question correctly, you generate enough money for the United Nations World Food Programme to buy 10 grains of rice to help reach Zero Hunger.
BeanBeanBean
BeanBeanBean works like Free Rice where you answer questions and each one that is correctly answered earns you virtual beans that are converted to money that is donated to charity.
Code.org
Code.org® is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science.
The Oregon Trail
The simple text-based game grabbed kids’ attention with real-life scenarios, putting them in control of their learning. It encouraged players to work together to make decisions based on logic, teaching through play.
Globle
Each day, players must identify a new mystery country. Enter any country to start. The game will tell you how close you are in distance by using a color ranking system. Keep narrowing things down until you identify the correct country.
Tinkerball
Playing around with objects and ideas helps us see that there may be more than one solution. Tinker Ball provides students lots of puzzles to help them develop their thinking skills.
Typing.com
Typing is still a crucial skill, and sometimes students don't get lots of instruction and practice. Typing.com has games that let students develop their skills.
Boat Coordinate
Use this fun boating game to learn and practice concepts related to grids and quadrants. Race along the X and Y axes to get to the finish line as fast as you can!
Duolingo
The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language!
Interland
Interland is a web-based game by Google that teaches students to identify false information and aims to fight disinformation.
Wordle & Octordle
Players use code-breaking logic to deduce the daily word(s), building their vocabulary along the way.
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