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Contest: Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards

Adobe press release: The Adobe Foundation invites you to participate in the second Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards, a global online youth media competition showcasing creative and socially-conscious media from youth ages 13–19. This media festival seeks to recognize outstanding … Continue reading

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Contest: Verizon Innovative App Challenge

The Verizon Innovative App Challenge provides an opportunity for U.S. middle school and high school student teams, working with a faculty advisor, to use their STEM knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity to come up with an original mobile app concept that incorporates … Continue reading

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STEM related contests and competitions

Check out some of these Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) related contests and competitions. (from ITEEA) Trash Transformation Challenge from Tech Directions Challenge your students to apply their creativity to invent something useful that incorporates one or more of these … Continue reading

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Apply today! NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing

It’s time to start those applications: competition is officially open for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. The Award honors young women who are active and interested in computing and technology, and encourages them to pursue their passions. Award recipients receive cool prizes … Continue reading

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Contest: K-12 Students Can Change the World

The 2012 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is now open! This national sustainability challenge empowers K-12 students to develop and share environmental solutions that may just change the world. Students from kindergarten to high school develop environmental solutions … Continue reading

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2011 LEGO Smart Creativity Contest

From Lego to U.S. educators and home schoolers: Get ready for the 2011 LEGO® Smart Creativity Contest! The LEGO® Smart Creativity Contest is all about creativity, innovation, and hands-on learning! We want you to think beyond the books and focus on the power of the brick! In … Continue reading

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Xtranormal Film Festival Contest

Xtranormal is a cool online video creator. If you haven’t checked it out, give it a try. It’s a bit like a digital puppet theater, you write a script that includes stage directions for your characters, and then the characters … Continue reading

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Design Squad Nation Build Big Contest

Design Squad Nation, a new series on PBS KIDS GO!, is inviting teams of kids to super-size Design Squad’s hands-on activities for the Design Squad Nation Build Big Contest. Working with their teachers, parents, grandparents, neighbors, and/or friends, teams are … Continue reading

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Announcing Fourth Annual Doodle 4 Google Competition

** New this year: Parents can register their kids directly ** Attention all parents and teachers! Do you have a budding artist at home or in the classroom? Would they love to win a college scholarship, a technology grant for … Continue reading

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Qwest technology grants - Colorado and other states

The Qwest Foundation and Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) are launching the fifth year of the Qwest Teachers & Technology Grant Program. The program provides an opportunity for educators to find innovative ways to bring technology into the classroom … Continue reading

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