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2016 Children's Prize Announces Winner

Republished from The Children's Prize Foundation Newsletter

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Scripps National Spelling Bee Lauches Student Video Competition

WASHINGTON (AP) — Students from across the country submitted videos for the Spellebrity Video Contest, and our judges chose their top ten. Now it's your turn! Vote for your favorite video by clicking "Vote" above and help send five student teams to Washington, D.C., to premiere their videos at Bee Week.

The competition is an opportunity for individuals or teams of up to four people to...

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Community College Innovation Challenge names 2016 winners

The Forsyth Technical Community College team proposed a method to modernize greenhouses. Photo credit: NSF
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Play Everywhere Challenge Awarding $1 million to cities for kid-friendly innovations

KaBOOM! announced today a national competition that will award $1 million in prizes for the best replicable, scalable innovations in city redevelopment and design that help make play easy, available and fun for kids and families. The Challenge, developed in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Target, Playworld, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the...

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Global Philanthropist Consortium Announces $1.5 Million Open Call Competition for Carbon Abatement Innovators

The Global Friends Prizes will recognize three organizations that are prompting individuals’ reductions of CO2 emissions in Greater China and the United States

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New Contest Encourages 'Visualizing My Earth'

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and the Center for Geoscience and Society are pleased to extend the celebration of Earth Science Week 2015 with the announcement of a new contest. The Visualizing My Earth Challenge invites full-time secondary and postsecondary students (ages 14 and older) to submit visual representations of natural phenomena from a geoscience perspective.

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