Competitions

Find a Science or Engineering Competition:
- Adopt-A-Stream Poster Session       - American Rocketry Challenge
- BioBuilder Club - Cienna Solutions Challenge
- Congressional App Challenge - Conrad Challenge
- Earth Prize Competition                     - ExploraVision
- GaTech K-12 InVenture Prize - LEARNSat: UGA Satellite Launch
- Microsoft’s Imagine Cup         - MIT THINK Scholars Program
- Modeling the Future Challenge - National STEM Festival
- Student Spaceflight Experiments - STEMup by the United Way
- Thomas Edison Pitch Contest

Join an existing research team:
- Citizen Science Projects     - Zooniverse  - Citizen Scientists Info

Start a business:
- Blue Ocean Competition     - Conrad Challenge          - Diamond Challenge
- Global Youth Challenge         - Jacobson BizInnovator - SAGE USA Competition
- Thomas Edison Pitch - Young Founders Lab - USPTO Patent Your Invention
Create Art and Design:
- Congressional Art Competition   - National Design Competition
- Breakthrough Junior Challenge         - YoungArts Challenge

Want to make a social impact in your community?
- Institute for Citizens & Scholars        - YouthMADE Festival

Monthly Contests (Themes Vary):
- ORISE STEM Challenges
- Instructables Challenges

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI  Horizons Challenge

Once your project is complete, submit a paper to present at UGA. Georgia Junior STEM Symposium (Can be a past project)

There are many online resources to help students along their project journey.  Here are a few more.
- Look at advice for high school research  MIT’s Guide to Get Started  & GLOBE Program Guide
- Find cool builds to modify  Instructables
- Search other High School projects   ISEF Abstract Search
- Look at databases and how data is presented  DataNuggets