Students may enter individually or in teams of two. The purpose of the competition is to encourage students to combine their imaginations with the tools of science to create and explore a vision of a future technology. Students work in groups of three or four. For elementary, middle and high school students. This national program of investigations and design challenges includes three separate competitions for students at the middle school level - Design a Mission to Mars, Watching Earth Change, and Aeronautics and Space Science Journalism.
Students participate as members of a team.
The preparation begins early in the school year and leads towards that New Jersey Science Olympiad in March. State winners get an invitation to the national competition. Click here for another related site with more information. Students use graphing calculators, CBLs, and probes to conduct investigations in the school and community. Students form teams with their colleagues from around the world.