Christopher Columbus Awards Challenge Kids to Explore Their World Through Science and Technology.Top Award is $25,000 Columbus Foundation Community Grant Co Finalists Win a Trip to Walt Disney World Noun 1. Walt Disney World - a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World [R] AUBURN Auburn (ô`bərn). 1 City (1990 pop. 33,830), Lee co., E Ala.; inc. 1839. The city's economy centers around Auburn Univ.; there is some manufacturing. 2 City (1990 pop. 24,309), seat of Androscoggin co. , N.Y. -- In the spirit of Christopher Columbus, a national competition is asking students across the U.S. to explore new worlds using science and technology. The Christopher Columbus Awards is a free program that challenges teams of middle-school students and a coach to identify a community issue and use science to solve it. Finalists win an all-expense-paid trip to Walt Disney World([R]) where they compete for U.S. Savings Bonds Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. and the $25,000 Columbus Foundation Community Grant to help bring their idea to life in their community. Now in its eleventh In music or music theory an eleventh is the note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the eleventh. Since there are only seven degrees in a diatonic scale the eleventh degree is the same as the subdominant and the interval year, the program has attracted over 14,000 'everyday' students from across the U.S. It helps address the performance gap in U.S. science education by encouraging critical thinking skills, while encouraging community service. Deadline and How to Enter The Christopher Columbus Awards is free to enter. For more information and competition guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. , call 1-800-291-6020 or visit www.christophercolumbusawards.com. Coaches may be teachers, parents, community leaders or mentors. Teams do not need to be affiliated with a school to enter. The deadline for receipt of entries is Monday, February 12, 2007. Who Wins? In 2006, a team from Levittown, NY that equipped a fire extinguisher fire extinguisher: see fire fighting. with a special alarm to improve fire safety won the Grant award. Past winners include a team that built a study hall out of straw on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, and a Pennsylvania team that developed a handheld grocery scanner (1) See also antivirus program. (2) An optical device that reads a printed page or transparency and converts it into a graphics image for the computer. The scanner does not recognize or differentiate in any manner the content of the material it is scanning. to detect items containing allergens such as dyes or nuts. Many teams have gone on to patent their ideas and entrants have pursued science career paths as a result of becoming involved in the program. All past winners can be found at www.christophercolumbusawards.com. About the Sponsor The Christopher Columbus Awards program is sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation (www.columbusfdn.org) with support from the National Science Foundation and is endorsed by the National Middle School Association. The Foundation is an independent Federal government agency created by Congress in 1992 to encourage and support research, study and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind MANKIND. Persons of the male sex; but in a more general sense, it includes persons of both sexes; for example, the statute of 25 Hen. VIII., c. 6, makes it felony to commit, sodomy with mankind or beast. Females as well as males axe included under the term mankind. Fortesc. 91; Bac. Ab. . |
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