Science Contests for Students, Science Outreach Programs

• New Mexico High School Supercomputing Challenge
  A chance to use really big computers.
   
• Project GUTS: Growing Up Thinking Scientifically - a summer and after-school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) project for middle school students in Sante Fe, NM.
   
• New Mexico MESA, a pre-college program that prepares students for college majors and careers in mathematics, engineering, science or technically related fields.
   
• Discover-E, connects you to engineering related resources in your area through maps, event calendars, event searches and an engineer network. In New Mexico, the Los Alamos ASM Chapter sponsors an annual Discover-E evening of interesting, interactive and fun engineering, science, math, and technology demonstrations for K-12 students and their parents or guardians - use the "find your fun" search engine at Discover-E to locate events in your area.
   
• AFRL La Luz Academy - an education outreach program at Kirtland Air Force Base, in collaboration with New Mexico Tech, targeting fifth through twelfth grade students from throughout New Mexico, providing hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities, mapped to New Mexico Content Standards and Benchmarks. Also offers summer Teacher Institute. See the La Luz website for program descriptions and registration forms, etc.
   
• Santa Fe Alliance for Science - a group of people interested in connecting students and teachers in the Santa Fe area to the local scientific, engineering and technical community to improve science education in the greater Santa Fe area.
   
• NMSU's Young Women in Computing Summer Camps - currently limited to high school girls in the Las Cruces area, although plans are underway to expand the program.
   
• Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards, http://www.exploravision.org/. ExploraVision is a competition for all students in grades K-12 administered by the National Science Teachers Association. It is designed to encourage students to combine their imagination with their knowledge of science and technology to explore visions of the future.
   
• Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, and Special Programs like Science on Wheels. Additional Teacher Development resources from Los Alamos National Laboratory's Education and Postdoc Program Office.
   
• The Santa Fe AAUW's Careers and Curiosity Pages
  How to get a Careers and Curiosity day at your elementary school.
   
• Pre-engineering competition links from the Engineering Education Service Center - includes links to many national and international science and engineering competitions.
   
• comPADRE - digital resources for Physics and Astronomy education.
   
• Toward a Metric America
  conversion tables and other useful information for going metric
   
• Interactive Periodic Table
   
• Curriculum materials for Voices of Girls in Science, Mathematics, and Technology sponsored by the Edvantia and the National Science Foundation
   
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-line Teaching) -- free and open resource designed primarily forfaculty and students of higher education. Links to online learningmaterials are collected here along with annotations such as peerreviews and assignments.
   
• SouthCentral Girls Collaborative Project -- brings together organizations in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas that are committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
   
• The American Physical Society's Century of Physics Timeline
   
• MIT Outreach Resources
   
• Student, Parent, and Curriculum Resources from the National Science Resources Center (NRSC).