Here is information about some other fairs/science - related competitions:
Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (
www.jshs.org)
• Utah is in the Intermountain Region (includes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Utah)
• Dates: March 4-7, 2009
• Contact: Mateo Remsburg (801-581-8761,
mremsburg@sa.utah.edu)
• Hosted at the University of Utah. 200 S. Central Campus Dr., Room 80, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
• Top prize at national level $16,000
• Life/environmental sciences emphasis
Davidson Fellows (
http://www.davidsongifted.org/fellows)
• Top prize $50,000
• Categories: Mathematics, Science, Literature, Music, Technology, Philosophy and Outside the Box
• Deadline: March 4; preliminary form due 2/11
• No group projects
• Submission varies by category but includes a 15 minutes DVD
Siemens Competition (
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm)
• Top prize $100,000
• Deadlines for 2009 not yet available
• Only seniors can submit individual projects, but teams can be of any age.
• Judging based on technical paper
Young Naturalist Awards (
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youn ... listawards)
• Cash award of ???
• Deadline March 2
• Grades 7-12 eligible
• Findings presented in a narrative essay
• Categories: Biology, Earth science, Ecology, and Astronomy
USA Today All-USA Academic High School Team
(
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/ ... t-hs_x.htm)
• Cash award of $2,500
• Deadline mid-February
• Student essays and a high school faculty/administrator nomination required.
Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute
(
http://www.weizmann-usa.org/site/PageSe ... u_lawrence)
• All expense paid opportunity to do a summer internship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
• Application deadline is March 1st, 2009