[NMScience] Christopher Columbus Awards

[Deb Thrall]

Christopher Columbus Awards Program Accepting Entries from Student
Community Service Teams

 

Deadline: March 17, 2008

 

The Christopher Columbus Awards (
http://www.christophercolumbusawards.com/ ), a national community-based
science and technology program for middle school students, is accepting
entries for the 2007-08 school year.

 

The program challenges students to work in teams of up to four, with an
adult coach, to identify a problem in their community and apply the
scientific method to create an innovative solution to that problem.
Coaches may be teachers, parents, community leaders, or mentors. Teams
do not need to be affiliated with a school to enter.

 

Four finalist teams and their coaches will receive an all-expenses-paid
trip to Walt Disney World to attend National Championship Week and
compete for U.S. Savings Bonds plus a $200 development grant to further
refine their idea.

 

The awards program is sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship
Foundation ( http://www.columbusfdn.org/ ), with support from the
National Science Foundation ( http://nsf.gov/ ).

 

Entry is free. For complete program guidelines, application materials,
and information on previous winners, visit the program's Web site.

 

RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10010859/chriscolumbus

 

 

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