Grant and Award
Programs
16th Annual Duracell/NSTA Scholarship Competition
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- Sponsored by Duracell North Atlantic
Group and administered by the National Science Teachers
Association, the 16th Annual Duracell/NSTA Scholarship Competition
offers students in grades 7 through 12 opportunities to win United
States Series EE Savings Bonds of up to $20,000 face value. The
competition rewards imagination, ingenuity, and mechanical
ability. This is the first time the competition has been open to
7th and 8th grade students and to students working in teams of
two.
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- To enter, a student or pair of students
must create and build a working device powered by DURACELL
batteries. Devices should perform a practical function. This can
include (but is not limited to) devices that educate, entertain,
or make life easier in some way. Each entry must be designed and
built by the entrant(s).
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- To qualify, an entry must include all of
the following: A descriptive two-page essay (with the required
paragraphs), a wiring diagram, clear photos of the device, and a
completed Official Entry Form. Although the device should be built
and working at the time of the entry, it should not be submitted
with the entry materials.
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- From these entries, a panel of
distinguished scientists and science educators will select 100
final entries (50 from grades 7-9 and 50 from grades 10-12). These
finalists will be notified through their sponsoring teacher(s) and
asked to ship their actual devices to Duracell headquarters for
final judging. Finalist(s) will be prize-winners only upon receipt
of their devices.
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- For more information call:
1-888-255-4242.
- or write: Duracell/NSTA Scholarship
Competition
- National Science Teachers
Association
- 1840 Wilson Boulevard
- Arlington, Virginia 22201-3000
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- Deadline is 5:00pm, Wednesday, January
14, 1998.
97-'98 Sigma Xi Outstanding
Science or Mathematics
Teacher Award
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- The CSRA Chapter of Sigma Xi is seeking
nominations for outstanding teachers of science/mathematics at the
middle school and high school levels. Teachers selected for the
award receive a $100 stipend and a plaque honoring their
achievement to be presented at the annual Sigma Xi meeting in
April/May. Teachers interested in applying for the award need to
submit a letter of application, a vita, and three letters of
recommendation (at least one from a school administrator and one
from a teaching colleague) to Dr. Jeff Priest, Ruth Patrick
Science Education Center, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801;
(803) 648-6851. Application deadline is Jan. 15, 1998.
6th Annual Toshiba/NSTA Explora
Vision Awards Program
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- Sponsored by Toshiba
- and administered by the
- National Science Teachers
Association
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- ExploraVision is a competition for
students of all interest, skill and ability levels in grades K-12,
who are United States or Canadian citizens or legal residents,
living within the United States, U.S. Territories, or Canada. The
purpose of the competition is to encourage students to combine
their imaginations with the tools of science and technology to
create and explore a vision of the future.
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- To prepare an entry, students work in
groups of three or four, simulating Research and Development
(R&D) teams, along with a teacher advisor and an optional
community advisor and an optional community advisor. Each team
selects a technology, or an aspect of a technology that is present
in the home, school and/or community. For example, they may choose
something as simple as a pencil or as complex as a television.
They will explore what it does, how it works, and how, when, and
why it was invented. The students must then project into the
future what that technology could be like 20 years from now.
Finally, they must convey their vision to others through both a
description and storyboard (a series of frames from a
would-be-movie).
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- For more information
- call: 1-800-EXPLOR-9
- or write: TOSHIBA//NSTA ExploraVision
Awards
- 1840 Wilson Boulevard
- Arlington, Virginia 22201-3000
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- The deadline for entries is February 3,
1998 (5pm EST)
1998 Toyota Tapestry Grant
Program
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- Want to get your innovative science
teaching idea off the ground? Toyota Tapestry Grant Program could
be the ticket.
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- A partnership of Toyota Motor Sales,
U.S.A., Inc. and the National Science Teachers Association, the
TOYOTA TAPESTRY grant program offers grants to K-12 science
teachers for innovative projects that enhance science education in
the school and/or school district. Fifty one-year grants, totaling
up to $500,000 will be awarded this year. To apply for funding,
qualified teachers must write a TOYOTA TAPESTRY proposal according
to the proposal requirements.
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- To apply:
- Write to: NSTA/Toyota Tapestry
- 1840 Wilson Boulevard
- Arlington, VA 22201-3000
- e-mail: pbowers@nsta.org
- or call: 1-800-807-9852
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- The deadline for receipt of proposals is
January 21, 1998.
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- Ruth Patrick
Science Education Center
- University of South Carolina Aiken
- Copyright © 1997-98 by the Board of Trustees of
the University of South Carolina.
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- URL:
http://rpsec.usca.sc.edu/newsletter/Dec97/Award.html(December,
1997)
