For Your Students
Following are application dates for student contests, scholarships, and internships. Asterisks (*) denote new entries.
*December 1 ENGINEERING
*December 1 LITERATURE
The Library of Congress’ Center for the Book and Target Stores sponsor Letters About Literature 2004. Applicants write to an author, living or dead, and explain how that author’s work changed their thinking about the world or themselves. State-level winners receive a cash award and a $50 Target gift card and advance to the national competition. Six national winners—two each in grades 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12—receive a $500 Target gift card and a trip to Washington, D.C., for the 2006 National Book Festival, where they will read their letters. Complete guidelines and an entry form are available on the Web site. For more information, contact: Center for the Book, (202) 707-5221; e-mail
lalessay@epix.net
;
www.loc.gov/letters
.
*December 1 PLAYWRITING
Young Playwrights Inc., the nation’s only professional theater devoted solely to writers age 18 or younger, is looking for original, nonmusical plays for off-Broadway production in the Young Playwrights Festival. Playwrights must be younger than 19 on December 1. Ten to 12 writers will be invited to the YPI Writers Conference in New York City for professionally staged readings of their plays; several plays will also receive full productions. Contact: Young Playwrights Festival National Playwriting Competition, 306 W. 38th St., Suite 300, New York, NY 10018; (212) 594-5440; fax (212) 594-5441; e-mail
writeaplay@aol.com
;
www.youngplaywrights.org
.
*December 2 MATH AND SCIENCE
FIRST, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring young people’s interest and participation in science and technology, invites high school teams to register for its 2006 FIRST Robotics Competition. The FIRST Robotics Competition is an annual event that challenges high school students working with professional engineering and business mentors to design and build a robot and compete in high-intensity events that measure the effectiveness of each robot, the power of team strategy and collaboration, and the determination of students. Each year’s kick-off event unveils a new challenge; teams have just six weeks to solve the season’s common problem using the same kit of parts and a standard set of rules. Teams then compete in the spring in more than 30 regional events and the championship, held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. For more information about registration or starting a team, contact: FIRST, 200 Bedford St., Manchester, NH 03101; (800) 871-8326; e-mail
info@usfirst.org
;
www.usfirst.org
.
*December 3 ASTHMA
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