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Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program for grades 3-8.
This program offers students in 3rd-8th grades the opportunity to win US Savings Bonds valued at $250, $500, $5,000 or $10,000. Students are encouraged to combine their creativity and imagination with science, technology, and mechanical ability to invent and build a tool or modify an existing tool. The goals of the program are to teach students to understand the scientific principles of how tools work, to introduce students to working with hand tools, to encourage students to think creatively about the world around them, and to allow students to develop practical solutions to everyday problems. Students must work independently to conceive and create their tool inventions. Students, with guidance from teacher-advisors, parents, or significant adults, will design and build or modify a tool. The tool whould perform a practical function, including (but not limited to) tools that repair, makegradersThe Chroniclers of Discovery Scholarship Program is a national contest supported by Vanderbilt University, NASA, Discovery Communications, and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Students in 9th and10th grades may enter the contest for a Scholarship by creating a story that reports on a scientific or technological discovery. The medium of communication can vary from the written word to video. The 9th and 10th grade scholarships send winning students to a special Advanced Space Academy (Space Camp) featuring science communications at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Contest rules and applications are available at www.spacecamp.com/chroniclers or more information can be obtained from Darlette Powell, e-mail: susitna@alaska.net.
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