| Type of Contest |
Website |
Phone |
Goal |
| American Computer Science League (ACSL) Competitions |
www.acsl.org |
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To provide a unique and exciting educational opportunity for computer enthusaists.
Contst problems motivate students to study computer topics not covered in their school's curricula and to
pursue classroom topics in-depth. Contsts are heald at each participating school, an unlimited number of
students may compete. Schools begin registering in July.
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| Craftsman/NST A Young Inventors Award |
www.nsta.org/programs/craftsman |
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This program challenges students to use creativity along with science, technology, and mechanics in
order to invent or improve a tool.
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| RoPro - Robot Programming |
www.cse.uta.edu/robots |
817-272-3588 |
Each year students from Dallas and Fort Worth area high schools face off at The University of Texas at
Arlington to see whose Lego Mindstorms robot can navigate through a maze without direct control
and/or find an object using vision and touch. The competition, called RoPro, is the sixth annual high
school robot programming contsts sponsored by the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UT Arlington
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| Davidson Fellows - Extraordinary Achievers |
www.DavidsonFellowers.org |
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The Davidson Institute for Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the country the
opportunity to be named as 2007 Davidson Felows, an honor accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000, or $10,000
scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, TEchnology, Mathematics, Music, Literature,
Philosophy, or Outside the Box.
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| Future City - Engineering |
www.dfwfuturecity.org |
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7th and 8th grade students team up with professionals and teachers to tackle the challenges of
building a city of the future. A fun way to learn about science and technology…and a chance to win a
trip to the National Finals in Washington, D.C.
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| Destination Imagination - Creativity/Problem-solving |
midcities.texasdi.org |
817-561-1807 |
Destination ImagiNation is a community-based, school-friendly program that builds participants'
creativity, problem solving, and teamwork in enjoyable and meaningful ways. Teams of five to seven
members work together to apply creativity, critical thinking and their particular talents to solve a
Team Challenge.
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| Mathcounts - Math contest |
www.mathcounts.org |
703-299-9006 |
MATHCOUNTS® is a national enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school
mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory.
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| Duke TIP - Academic contest |
www.tip.duke.edu |
919-668-9100 |
Duke 7th Grade and 8th Grade Talent Identification Program (TIP) -
Every year, over 100,000 7th and 8th graders take the SAT along with high school students
for a special competition called the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP).
Students in the 7th and 8th grades are encouraged to take the SAT by January of that school
year and submit their scores to Duke University's TIP Program. If the scores are high enough,
the student will be recognized on either the state or the national level through an awards ceremony.
In addition, high scorers can win admission and scholarships to the Duke University Summer Academic
Programs. Many parents have their middle school children enrolled in the Duke University competition
to simply give their child a head start in preparing for the SAT and PSAT
exams, the most important
exams in high school. When you take the SAT in middle school, the scores are removed from your record
before you enter high school automatically (unless you request otherwise). So there is no need to worry about colleges later
seeing your SAT score from middle school.
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| The ©®EA™ Contest - Inventions |
www.inventnow.org/InventNowKids |
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The ©®EA™ Contest and Resource Guides were designed to encourage interest in and
understanding of intellectual property and its protection through patents, trademarks and copyrights.
The Contest and Guides have been developed with age-appropriateness for elementary, middle and high
school classrooms, but they can also be used by parents or home-schoolers. to engage
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