Christopher Columbus Awards Program for K-12 community projects

Posted by on August 6, 2004

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Entries Invited for Christopher Columbus Awards Program
Deadline: February 14, 2005

Now in its ninth year, the Christopher Columbus Awards program challenges middle school students to explore opportunities for positive change in their communities.

To participate in the program, teams of up to four students and a coach must identify a community issue and use the scientific process to solve it. Finalist teams win an all-expense-paid trip to Walt Disney World, where they will compete for U.S. Savings Bonds and the $25,000 Columbus Foundation Community Grant to help bring their idea to life in their community.

Past winners of the award have included a group of Native American girls who built a study hall out of straw on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and a group of students from Pennsylvania who developed a handheld grocery scanner that quickly deciphers food labels to detect whether the item contains allergens such as dyes or nuts. Coaches may be teachers, parents, community leaders, or mentors. Teams do not need to be affiliated with a school to enter.

For more information, complete program guidelines, and a list of past winners, see the program’s Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://www.christophercolumbusawards.com/">http://www.christophercolumbusawards.com/</a>

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