The Apollo Prize Created by the distinguished MIT Apollo Program Chaor, Professor Laurence R. Young, this prize was established to bring attention to the many facets of the international space program. The award will be given to a Science Fair participant who carries on the Apollo Program tradition by presenting the best space related project in the 2000 Massachusetts State Science Fair. Sponsored by the National Youth Science Foundation, the Camp provides 102 student delegates with the opportunity to exchange ideas with leading scientists and other professionals from the academic and corporate worlds. Held near the National Radio Observatory at Green Bank, W. VA, the students also present seminars covering their own areas of interest and research during the three week camp session. Botanists, wildlife management personnel and other professionals will also conduct field trips to explore the areas natural history.
Students are responsible for only incidental personal expenses.
The School for Field Studies Considered the nation's largest private educational institution exclusively devoted to undergraduate course work and field experience in conservation biology. The School for Field Studies provides the opportunity to conduct hands-on environmental research while learning skills needed to address environmental and conservation problems confronting ecosystems throughout the world. Consisting of 15 advanced high school and college student and two faculty members, SFS teams spend 30 days living and working in the particular ecosystem under study. Some of the issues to be addressed in past programs include bald eagles in Montana, giraffes' food requirements on a Kenyan ranch, coral reef study in the Caribbean, preservation of mammalian species in the Rockies, and the dynamics of deforestation in the Australian rain forest. SFS course are offered on two levels, introductory and advanced, so that science majors and students with little academic background in the sciences can participate.