Kids’ Science Challenge offers Prizes and Trips

Here’s a great chance for kids to learn more about science and possibly win prizes.

The Kids’ Science Challenge is a FREE nationwide competition for 3rd to 6th graders to submit experiments and problems for SCIENTISTS and ENGINEERS to solve. Play science games, watch videos, and enter to win awesome prizes and trips!

There are many cool prizes and trips and the first thousand kids receive a unique Science Kit just for entering.

Entering is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

• Step 1: Research the topics
• Step 2: Brainstorm an idea.
• Step 3: Enter to win. Submissions are IDEAS for projects or experiments or PROBLEMS for scientists to solve.

And more!

• Need help creating a Science Fair at your school? Click “How to do a Science Fair Project” for helpful tips.
• Want to help your students brainstorm their topics? Use the brainstorming tool to get their creative juices flowing.
• The first 1,000 entries receive a fabulous, free Kids’ Science Challenge Kit  in the mail. The Kit is filled with give-aways and activities for hours of science fun.

Visit the Kids Science Challenge website to learn about projects, download entry forms and rules, and find more details about the contest.

This year’s topics are:

ZERO WASTE
The Challenge: Can you invent a package that never ends up in a landfill?

The Earth is filled with garbage and a lot of it comes from packaging. It’s possible to package our food, toys and other stuff without hurting the environment. To do that, packages need to be sustainable, or friendly to the environment. Sustainable packaging does not harm our world or use up the limited resources we have on Earth, such as clean water, air and underground oil. Zero Waste is about using the right materials to make the package, and then reusing or recycling the package once it’s done its job. Learn how sustainable packaging can help save the Earth from drowning in its own garbage.

ANIMAL SMARTS
The Challenge: Can you design a toy, game or experiment that enhances the life of a pet or zoo animal and demonstrates its particular intelligence?

Dogs who know over a thousand words, dolphins who can work together to plan new tricks, parrots who can think like a six-year-old child – humans are not the only intelligent animals. Animals show their smarts in many ways. They communicate, play, plan and problem-solve. Some can even recognize themselves in a mirror. Find out how much animals know and how you might help to keep their minds and bodies busy.

MEALS ON MARS
The Challenge: Can you come up with a new way to preserve, cook, deliver or sustainably produce food in flight or on Mars?

Eating food is a lot more fun when it floats off your plate! If you think it was hard getting used to the food at sleep-away camp, imagine what the food is like when you’re on the way to Mars. To prepare for space travel, food scientists must think about how to prepare and preserve food, how astronauts will eat in zero gravity, and how they’ll dispose of food and human waste. Once they’re on Mars, they’ll need to know how to grow or produce their own food there. Learn more delicious facts about space food. You’ll find out that it’s out of this world.

Kids’ Science Challenge includes:

• Lesson Plans
• Online games
• Fun activities
• Science Fair project ideas
• Science background on the three topics
• And much more

Get kids thinking about how they can change the world with these experiments.

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