The University of Akron established the Women in Engineering Program in 1993 to recruit more women into engineering disciplines by providing the tools and resources students need to successfully complete their degrees. They offer multiple summer programs and activities to help engage young women in the field of engineering.
The WordMasters Challenge™ is a vocabulary competition based on completing analogies. Meets are held right in your own school three times per year. Download word lists for your team’s grade and difficulty level and get to work! A few weeks later, download the analogy tests. Report your scores to compete with public and private schools throughout the country.
Writopia Lab is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in New York City in April of 2007. Creative writing workshops are offered for kids ages 6 to 18. All of the workshops have a maximum of seven students and are led by a published author or produced playwright who has been fully trained in their time-tested methodology. In each of the past six years, students have won more recognition for their writing than any other group of students in the nation. (Recent honors include: the most regional and national medals from the Scholastic Writing Awards in the nation; the nation’s top 2012 and 2013 Scholastic Awards Scholarships for Gold Medal Portfolioists; the 2012 and 2013 NYC Teen Literary Honor from New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; a 2013 YoungArts Scholar Award.)
CEF’s You Be The Chemist Challenge® is a collaborative, multilevel academic competition that celebrates the science of chemistry and elevates STEM careers. Fifth to 8th grade students are eligible to compete in teams of four. Teams qualify for and compete at the following levels: School Level, Regional Level, and National Level.
The Academy of Applied Science’s Young Inventors’ Program is a K-12 Project-based learning program that provides a hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) educational enrichment opportunity to budding youth inventors. The Young Inventors’ Program delivers YIP Kits, invention kits for classrooms, to help schools introduce a fun invention curriculum to their learners in the form of a teachable unit, or via a club or afterschool program that culminates in a school Invention Convention event. The flexible program can be started anytime October-February with a school’s winning inventors being identified by March in order to qualify for the Academy’s Regional Invention Convention Competition with potential to go to the Nationals at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. The Academy of Applied Science has a partnership called Invention New England that offers an online training course for teachers for professional development or graduate credit to teachers in NH, MA, ME and Vermont.
Designed and led by experts in the field of gifted youth, Yunasa Summer Camps support the whole gifted child, encouraging growth and support of campers in all aspects of self. Yunasa – the Indian Lakota word for “Balance” – provides a combination of traditional sleepaway camp experience and special workshops designed specifically to help gifted children develop greater awareness and self-acceptance. Camps are offered every summer in Sedalia, Colorado and Flint, Michigan and are open to campers nationwide ages 10 to 15.
Zero Robotics is a robotics programming competition where the robots are SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites) inside the International Space Station. The competition starts online, on this website, where teams program the SPHERES to solve an annual challenge. After several phases of virtual competition in a simulation environment that mimics the real SPHERES, finalists are selected to compete in a live championship aboard the ISS. An astronaut will conduct the championship competition in microgravity with a live broadcast!
