Thanks to Vicki Davis’s Cool Cat Teacher blog, I learned about Toshiba/NSTA’s ExploraVision contest for kids K-12. The contest challenges teams of students (working under a mentor) to:
- choose a technology that is present in their lives
- explore how it works, when and why it was invented
- imagine and explore what the technology would be 20 years from now
- write an in-depth report to convey their vision to others
Prizes range from $5,000 - $10,000 savings bonds, a toshiba notebook for the school, and special gifts for the coaches and mentors. See the website for complete details.
Why should students enter? Strengthen the following skills:
- higher-order thinking
- communication
- organization
- imagination
- research
- collaboration
- writing skills
Deadline is January 28, 2009. What are you waiting for?
Image by ILoveButter from Flickr.
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