The Intel International Science &
Engineering Fair - is a competition for high school students
all over the world where they compete for scholarship money, scientific
equipment and trips, tuition grants, and the grand prize is a trip
to the Nobel Prize Ceremonies. www.sciserv.org/isef/
The Engineers Week Future City Competition is
a fun, exciting, educational program for seventh- and eighth-grade
students, combining a stimulating engineering challenge with "hands-on"
application. Students design cities of the future using SimCity
3000 Unlimited software and use recycled materials to build a table-top
scale model of one section of this design. Students are also expected
to defend their city design against a panel judges in a 5 - 7 minute
presentation and to write a 500 word essay on an assigned engineering
topic. www.futurecity.org