This year’s Youth Awards Program will be held in Arlington, Virginia from June 20 through June 23. The application deadline for this program is May 12, 2008. In addition to submitting your application fee of $525 per student, your application and your release forms, you will also need to secure a nomination from one of your state’s senators.

The registration fee of $525 is going to cover most of the student’s expenses during their trip to the Youth Awards Program. It will cover their lodging, their local transportation, their meals, and their tour of Washington, D.C. This is a great program that helps to recognize superior science students, to reinforce the value of developing science skills and a great chance for kids across the country to network with one another. Participation in this program also looks great on college entrance applications.

Science is an important subject to do well in. If you want to get into a great college or technology school development program, then you can develop your skills by working with middle school science fair projects, high school science fair projects and fuel cell car experiments science kits.

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If you are associated with an elementary school, either a student or a teacher, then you will want to learn more about the NREL Coalition for Learning Opportunities of United Tutors. This science program provide Denver regional schools with tutors who will help selected students to expand their scientific horizons. Tutors will work one-on-one with students in reading, science and math topics. They will also supplement their tutoring sessions with special technology and science projects.

Middle schools have a couple of competitions to choose from. The first is the DOE National Middle School Science Bowl. This is an academic tournament that focuses on hydrogen fuel cell cars. The second DOE competition for middle schoolers is the Junior Solar Hydrogen Fuel Cell Competition. This is a classroom based science competition that is designed specifically for junior high students.

High school students, you too can take advantage of NREL competitions. The one designed for you is the DOE High School Science Bowl. This is a science tournament that will run you through both math problems and science problems.

To do well in these competitions it is important that you practice science experiments. Cool science fair projects are great for developing your thinking skills and your project development skills.

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This week’s science competition is the EV Challenge, which has recently been renamed “SMARTT Challenge.” SMARTT stands for “Students Making Advancements in Renewable Transportation Technology.” The name change was done to reflect the new focus of the competition, which is now on renewable transportation technology.

The sponsor of this competition is the Carolina Electric Vehicle Coalition, Inc. The competition is open to both middle schools and high schools, however, the vehicles need to be driven by a high school student. Registration for this competition is open right now, however, you will need to get your registration in by the deadline which is one month after the Fall school semester begins. The first competition will be at the State Fair in October and the final judging event will be in May of 2009.

There are several forms and rule books that you will need to read through before working on your project. However, your project will be judged on the following seven criteria:

When working on your entry don’t forget to utilize all the resources for energy science projects that are at your disposal including energy science fair supplies providers.

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ExploraVision is a scholarship competition that focuses on the development of future technologies. This competition is open to kids from Kindergarten all the way through the 12th grade. The best part about this science competition is that it offers high value scholarships as well as valuable regional awards. For example, the first place prize is a $10,000 U.S. EE Savings Bond and the second place prize is a $5,000 U.S. EE Savings Bond. In addition to these overall prizes, regional prizes will also be awarded to the 24 regional categories. The regional prizes include a notebook computer for the winning school and special gifts for each of the regional winners.

There is no entry fee for this competition. It is a team event, and teams can be made up of 2, 3 or 4 students. Students on the team don’t have to be from the same school and they can also be from a homeschool. The entry deadline for this competition is January of each year, and you retain all the rights to your inventions.

While entries are due until January of next year, it is not too early to start working on your entries. A good way to prepare for this competition is to complete practice energy science fair projects, like an alternative energy power house.

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Before talking about this year’s Canon Envirothon, I need to provide you with information about getting there. First of all you will need to establish your team. Team members can be in the 9th, 10th,11th or 12th grade; and the team needs five student members and one adult team member. State level competition will be help before registration is due for the national level event held in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Information and application packages can be requested from the official Canon Envirothon headquarters by writing to Canon Envirothon, PO Box 855, League City, Texas 77571. This year’s event will be help July 28 through August 3. The topics that will be covered in this year’s event will be based on “recreational impacts on natural resources.” In order to perform well in this science competition your team will need to be able to identify resources quickly, create an interesting presentation and make sure that each student on the team participates equally in the completion of the project and in the oral presentation. This is great practice for science fairs.

Reviewing science fair projects news and current scientific journals can be a great way to prepare for this science competition. To give students the best chance possible to win, they need to be up-to-date with science issues. To help them out, you can cover these issues in class lectures and in classroom science demonstrations.

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At the beginning of this competition 1,602 high school students entered from schools across the United States. They presented projects from the fields of math, science and engineering. After a difficult round of judging, this amazing pool of young talent was narrowed down to just 40 finalists, 14 high school women and 26 high school men. During the finals, scheduled for March, these students will compete for their share of about $530,000 in scholarship money. Past winners of this competition have gone on to win Nobel Prizes and other honors.

The results of this competition have several implications that we, as educators need to examine. First of all the ratio of male and female finalists leads me to wonder if schools are taking steps to encourage young women to develop an interest in science, math and engineering. Perhaps this is a topic for discussion that needs to be started. The second implication that this competition raises is the profitability for students to participate in science and math competitions like this one.

Whether you are gearing up for a school science fair event, a state science fair competition or a classroom science demonstration, it is important that you take steps to get every student involved in the activities. Some students may take a little more prodding to get involved, but once you are able to plug them into the experience of scientific discovery their academic goals will be much easier to accomplish.

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There are three different categories for the Super Science Fair Projects Virtual Science Fair. The first category is environmental focused science fair projects. Projects that will qualify for this category include: composting projects, recycling projects and renewable energy projects. The second category is design a “green building.” To qualify for this category you will need to design a project that explores the e-factors related to environmentally friendly building products. The final category is community projects. To qualify for this category you will need to design an ecologically or environmentally friendly community project.

Like past virtual science fairs offered by this site, the contest is open to students in elementary and high school. Projects will be judged according to three different age categories. Each age category will offer a first prize of either a Magnacraft 50mm power telescopre or an MP3 player.

This virtual science fair contest is a great primer for a school science fair competition or a springboard for designing new science projects for class. To get ideas for cool science fair projects be sure to read our past blogs, as they contain a lot of tips and hints for finding project inspiration and resources.

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Intel is a technology corporation that has implemented what they call an Education Initiative. This initiative invests over $100 million a year in educators, students, and communities. They offer several programs that you, your school, your students and your community can benefit from. Educators will be interested in the teachers’ training program as well as the Intel School of Distinction program. If you are looking for ways to inspire your students to reach higher science achievements, then consider entering them in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair or the Intel Science Talent Search.

While Intel’s investment is generous, it is not a purely philanthropical gesture. While your students may benefit greatly from their grant money and scholarships, Intel also can benefit from the discoveries, developments and insights created by your school and your students. This is just one of the many mutually beneficial relationships that your school can develop with top industry organizations.

Giving your students a competitive edge is challenging to do, but not impossible. However, you will need to learn where to turn to for resources, training and inspiration for your school science fair projects, cool science fair projects or super science fair projects.

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Each month this section of the blog will announce publication of the newsletter. So lets begin:

Science Fair Enthusiasts September issue gives you all the details of the Science Fair Contest that begins Sept 15, 2007 and ends December 31, 2007. See what fun prizes you can win. 7 new math science fair project pages were added to the Super Science Fair Projects site, and the Summer Science Fair Contest winners and their projects were published. Also see how you can receive the new free ebook, How to Win a Science Fair Contest.

 The October is of Science Fair Enthusiast – 10-07 includes a one of a kind Values Clarification Science Fair Project that involves parents and students. Find out how easy it is to do an outstanding science project. This may even win you first prize! 3 new elementary school science fair projects were added to the Super Science Fair Projects website. And lots of coupons and discounts for your science fair supplies.

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We all run into stumbling blocks when we are working on a project. I am sure that other people have the same experience, it is just that we are at home, alone, we think that we are the only one who struggles, hit roadblocks, and just don’t know where to go. Well, now you have a place to ask your questions without hesitation.

And to sweeten your science fair experience, we have an International Science Fair Contest where you put your science fair projects on YouTube.com and win prizes. Click on the link above and get all the details.

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