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Student Competitions

Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program The Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program challenges students to use creativity and imagination along with science, technology, and mechanical ability to invent or modify a tool. This competition began in 1996. www.nsta.org/programs/craftsman/

FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FIRST) The FIRST competition is a national engineering contest that immerses high school students in the exciting world of engineering. www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OEP/FIRST.htm

JPL Annual Invention Challenge The JPL Annual Invention Challenge is ready for its sixth year. The purpose of this competition is to provide some entertainment for the JPL employees and invited friends. Another purpose is to promote the science and engineering fields within the JPL community in a creative and fun way. As the competition grew from year to year it became obvious that student participation was a natural extension of the competition. www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/team/ic_index.html

NASA Drop Tower Competition for High-School-Aged Student Teams DIME is a NASA competition program which allows teams to design and build a science experiment which will then be operated in a NASA microgravity drop tower facility. This program is a project-oriented activity which lasts one school year for the selected teams. Teams will be comprised of high-school-aged students from (for example) a science class, a group of classes, a science club, or a scout troop. A team must have an adult advisor, such as a teacher or parent. microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html

NASA Student Involvement Program The NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP) is a national program of six competitions linking students in grades K -12 directly with NASA's diverse and exciting mission of exploration, research, and discovery. education.nasa.gov/nsip

National Science Bowl The Department of Energy's National Science Bowl® is a highly publicized academic competition among teams of high school students who answer questions on scientific topics in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, earth, computer and general science. The teams are comprised of five students and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. The competition consists of a round robin followed by a double elimination final. Questions are submitted by scientists at all of Energy's facilities as well as from other federal agencies and university consortia. The questions are multiple choice and short answer in the categories of chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, astronomy, and general, earth, and computer science. www.scied.science.doe.gov/nsb/default.htm

Revolutionary Vehicles: Concepts and Systems The Aerospace Vehicle Systems Technology Office, Langley Research Center, in partnership with Glenn Research Center and the Federal Aviation administration, is announcing the first NASA student competition for Revolutionary Vehicles. There are University and High School divisions. avst.larc.nasa.gov/competition.html

Team America Rocketry Challenge AIA and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) are proudly sponsoring the 2004 Team America Rocketry Challenge, which is a national model rocket competition for U.S. high school and middle school students. A grand prize pool of over $50,000 in cash and savings bonds will be shared by the top ten teams. www.rocketcontest.org/

The Great Moonbuggy Race The 11th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race will be held April 2-3, 2004 in Huntsville, Alabama. Students are required to design a vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems that are similar to problems faced by the original Moonbuggy team. http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/sites/ExternSite.asp?url=http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov