Sponsored Competitions/ Fairs

Botball
Botball is a hands on learning experience in robotics designed to engage students in learning the practical applications of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Click here for information.

FIRST - For Inspiration and Recognition in Science & Technology


FIRST Robotics

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience—and a lot of fun. In 2005 the competition reached close to 25,000 high-school-aged young people on close to 1,000 teams in 30 competitions. Our teams came from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., and almost every U.S. state. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines. Click here for further information.

FIRST Lego League

The FIRST Foundation (For Inspiration and Education for Science and Technology) conducts regional and national competitions to demonstrate that engineering and science can be as interesting and enjoyable as any sports and entertainment event. A team, consisting of up to ten middle school students, applies their innovative skills to meet a challenge by building a miniature robot. Student teams collaborate for six weeks to work closely with engineers to design, construct, and control a remotely-operated vehicle. This hands-on project helps students learn what they can create and achieve through cooperative learning. Currently, over 20,000 children from middle schools across the country and other countries participate in this competition. FIRST also sponsors a similar competition, the FIRST Robotics Competition, for high school students. Click here for further information.

JETS TEAMS
JETS sponsors the TEAM (Tests for Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science) competition which challenges high school students to prepare for tomorrow's world. The competition is a one-day, two-part exam that encourages higher-order thinking, application of knowledge, team cooperation and management skills. Each student is a significant player on his school's team and strategy is a key element in team selection. All teams participate in both Part 1 and Part 2 of the exam and the results determine local, state and national rankings.
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Future Cities
The Future City Competition is a program for seventh and eighth-grade students to foster interest in math, science and engineering by encouraging them to develop computer-based models of an idealized city of the future. Students work in teams to understand the practical applications of mathematics and scientific principles. Winners at the regional competition compete in the national finals for awards and scholarships sponsored by engineering societies and corporations. The competition is open to all public, private, and parochial schools. Click here for more information.

Siemens Westinghouse Competition

The Siemens Foundations, in partnership with the College Board, established the Siemens Westinghouse Competition. The Competition promotes excellence by encouraging students to undertake individual or team research projects in science, mathematics, engineering and technology or in combination of these disciplines. In 1999, the foundation hosted the first national Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science & Technology. With its high academic standards, regular judging process and emphasis on authentic scientific research, it has quickly become the leading science and mathematic research based competition for high school students in the United States. Click here for more information.

Intel Talent Search

The Science Talent Search (STS) is America's oldest and most highly regarded pre-college science competition. For more than 60 years, this competition-often referred to as the "junior Nobel Prize"-has provided an incentive and an arena for U.S. high school seniors to complete an original research project and have it recognized by a national jury of highly regarded professional scientists. The projects are a result of inquiry-based learning methods designed to nurture critical reasoning skills, to experience science through the use of the scientific method, and to demonstrate how math and science skills are crucial to making sense of today's technological world and making the best decisions for tomorrow. Click here for more information.

International Science and Engineering Fair

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the world's only international science fair representing all life sciences for students. Every year, more than one million students in grades 9-12 compete in regional science fairs and nearly 500 Intel ISEF-affiliated fairs held around the world. More than 1,200 students from 40+ countries win the chance to compete for more than US$3 million in scholarships and prizes at the Intel ISEF in 14 scientific categories and a team project category. Click here for more information.

New York City Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair

The New York City Science and Engineering Fair (NYCSEF) is New York City's system-wide science fair for high school students. The NYCSEF Competition promotes active and independent science learning for NYC high school students, and seeks to identify excellent student research projects. Each year during February and March, high school students submit research projects to Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Research Projects are exhibited at Polytechnic Institute of NYU where judges from science and engineering professions select several students to join students around the world to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).