The Academy also sponsors the Science Olympiad. Regional Winners compete at the state level and the Alabama winners go to the National Competition. The Academy coordinates a Visiting Scientist Program in which volunteer members, upon invitation by a teacher, go to high schools to present talks, demonstrations, or workshops. Through this program, students and teachers learn about college, careers, society s problems, the meth ods of science, and life around us. Support is provided to graduate and undergraduate stu dents in the form of research grants and travel grants.
Research grants assist students in completing projects required for degrees.
Travel grants enable students to attend the annual meetings where they can present their research results in the Student Research Award Competition. A student scholarship program organized by the Acad emy in 1946 was the forerunner of the cooperating Gorgas Scholarship Foundation. The Foundation, which was set up in 1952, conducts a statewide science talent search and awards scholarships to the winning high school senior students from the Westinghouse Talent Search. The final judging is done at the Academy s annual meeting and the awards are announced there. Each year the Academy makes two special awards.