The National Academy of Engineering is soliciting nominations of students who have made a contribution to one of the 14 NAE Grand Challenge problem areas: Sustainability, Health, Vulnerability, Joy of Living. The winning stories will be featured at a summit on April 21, 2010 at Wellesley College, bringing together educators, students and leaders from business and government to explore new ways to educate the next generation of Grand Challenge leaders and to celebrate the efforts of young people working to solve grand challenge problems. Deadline for nomination: March 1, 2010. For students age 13 and up.

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TexPREP recruits middle and high school students for an eight-week summer program designed to enrich their scientific skills, provide them mentoring, increase their chances of going to college, and motivate them to pursue science and engineering studies. The Summer 2010 TexPREP sessions will be held in Alpine, Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Edinburg, Fort Worth, Harlingen, Houston, Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, Permian Basin (Midland-Odessa), San Antonio, and Victoria. Students in these cities are encouraged to contact the program directors.

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The Tufts University Center for Engineering Education will hold a Parent and Child Workshop, March 6, 2010, with teams building and programming their own LEGO inventions. For all ages. Cost: $75.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers two week-long residental programs in June and July: Exploring Your Options introduces high school rising juniors and seniors to the field of engineering; Discover Engineering is for rising sophomores interested in math and science to work on projects incorporating different aspects of engineering.

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U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s G.A.M.E.S is an annual week long camp, designed to give academically talented middle-school girls an opportunity to explore exciting engineering and scientific fields through demonstrations, classroom presentations, hands-on activities, and contacts with women in these technical fields. Application opens Feb. 1

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AZ MESA, is an academic resource for Title I schools and their 7th to 12th grade students. Based in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, the Phoenix Central Region MESA is a free after-school educational program whose purpose is to assist underserved ethnic minorities, girls, low income, and first generation college-bound students pursue course work, advance study and possible careers in Math, Engineering and Science.

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The Cool School Challenge is a FREE innovative program that motivates students, teachers, and school districts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. By conduction audits of classroom energy, solid waste, and transportation behaviors, students identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste and shring their carbon impact.

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