Acid Rain Choose to be a specialist in a specific field (chemistry, economics, history, environment, politics, or health) and research information in your field, compile data, analyze the data, and then meet with others in your group for their input. You will then write a report on this topic.

Bayer/NSF Award for Community Innovation Competition for teams of middle school students (sixth, seventh, and eighth graders) to find creative solutions to problems in their communities.

BEST Inc. - BEST Inc. is a nonprofit organization that sponsors a robot design contest for high school students. Robots are student designed and build and the contest is offered to the schools at no cost. BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) is organized as hub sites serving a regional area. At the present time there are 10 hub sites in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado.

Blue Ice: Focus on Antarctica Students, grades 4 - 12, from around the world are work together in this online "class" to learn just how an ecosystem as rich and vast as the Antarctic food web can survive in the icy waters that surround such a cold and barren continent as Antarctica.

Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The International Boiling Point Project - Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
People from all over the world boil water at different elevations and post data to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point.

Classroom Connect Information and links to collaborative projects.

Classroom Connect Quest Projects Twice a year, a team of experts - on bicycles - go on a Quest to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of all time. With millions of students as their guides, the members of the Quest team travel to distant lands and report on everything they find.

Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program The Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program challenges students to use creativity and imagination along with science, technology, and mechanical ability to invent or modify a tool. The student, with guidance from a teacher-advisor, parent, or significant adult, will design and build a tool.

Da Vinci Competition A national engineering-oriented test offering cash prizes and scholarships for seniors in Canadian high schools.

Elephants of Cameroon Join the North Carolina Zoo and a team of researchers on an interactive project to track and study elephants in northern Cameroon. Read daily journals, interact with scientists in the field and track the elephants in real time!

ExplorA-Pond - UtahLINK The pond ecology Web site: an online telecommunications project that encourages worldwide, online collaborative mathematics as K-12 students study pond ecology and create a database of pond descriptions. Teachers can register classes and put local ponds.

ExploraVision The Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards program is a competition for all students in grades K-12. It is designed to encourage students to combine their imagination with their knowledge of science and technology to explore visions of the future. Teams of students select a technology, research how it works and why it was invented, and then project how that technology may change in the future.

FIRST High School Robotics Competition The FIRST Competition features head to head matches between radio-controlled robots from teams made up of high schools and corporate sponsors from around the country. Students experience the excitement of engineering and competition, and they come away with the feeling that science, math, and technology are fun.

The Fractal Microscope An interactive tool for exploring the Mandelbrot set and other fractal patterns. With the Fractal Microscope students can enjoy the art as they master the science of mathematics, and can address a variety of topics in the K-12 curriculum including scientific