Design Squad If you like watching Design Squad on PBS, check out their website. You can watch videos, play games, and enter competitions.

FIRST The FIRST program has lots of great competitions to get your engineering mind started. Whether you choose the Lego League for grades K-8 or the robotics competion or tech challenge for high school students, there is something for everyone.

Future City Competition Working with a teacher and engineer mentor, student teams design a future city using SimCity 2000, then build scale models of a section of their city.

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Held annually in May, the Intel ISEF brings together over 1,200 students from 48 states and 40 nations to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prize: a trip to attend the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden.

JETS Challenges The Junior Engineering Technical Society offers numerous programs and competitions for young people including the National Engineering Design Challenge. See what's coming up next.

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is a non-competitive initiative that awards grants up to $10,000 each to teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors to identify a problem and invent a solution for it. Designed to excite, empower, and encourage students through hands-on problem solving, InvenTeams aims to inspire a new generation of inventors.

National Geographic Bee The contest is designed to encourage teachers to include geography in their classrooms, spark student interest in the subject, and increase public awareness about geography.

National Science Bowl - For High School Students Compete in a verbal forum to solve technical problems and answer questions in all branches of science and math

National Science Bowl - For Middle School Students Either an academic math and science competition or a model fuel cell car competition. Why not compete in both?!

Odyssey of the Mind This international program encourages creative problem-solving challenging students in a variety of areas, from building mechanical devices to giving their own interpretation of literary classics.

RI/SME Student Robotic Engineering Challenge The RI/SME is a competition for middle school through college students where students can demonstrate their knowledge of the manufacturing process through robotics and automation contests.

Science Olympiad Following the format of popular board games, TV shows and athletic games, Science Olympiad tournaments are interscholastic competitions consisting of a series of individual and team events. Teams of up to 15 students compete in four divisions: grades K-3, grades 3-6, grades 6-9, and grades 9-12. Rules vary for event to event and the complete rules and guidelines are made available to schools upon registration.

Science Olympiad: Student Center This page in the Science Odyssey website present resources for educators including program guides, activity ideas and more. The Science Odyssey series covers scientific discoveries in medicine and health, physics and astronomy, human behavior, technology, earth and life sciences.

Siemens Foundation Competitions and Awards Site features several contests for high school students with great awards for winners.

The Global Challenge In the Global Challenge, teams of US high school students collaborate with international counterparts from October to May to address global climate change and compete for over $60,000 in awards!

Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision Awards The Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision Awards encourage students to combine the tools of science with their own imagination to create and explore a vision of future technologies.

TOYchallenge TOYchallenge is a national toy design challenge for 5th-8th graders sponsored by Sally Ride Science. It is a chance for teams of imaginative kids to create a new toy or game and a great way to learn about science, engineering, and the design process!