Nominations are being accepted for the Kentucky Jump$tart Coalition’s Financial Literacy Teacher of the Year award, which honors a Kentucky teacher in grades K-12 who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to teaching financial literacy topics and motivating students to learn about personal finance. The award winner receives: paid registration for the 2015 LifeFundamental$ Financial Literacy Summit in June. $250 that can [...]
The deadline has been extended for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s 2015 creating writing contest, which gives high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to compete for cash prizes by describing what they would do if they ruled their school. “If I were Principal for a Day” is the theme of the contest, which is open to students in grades [...]
The deadline for the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection's (DEP) 2014-15 Eco-Art Contest has been extended. The contest, which is in its sixth year, provides an opportunity for students to gain statewide recognition for artwork relating to Kentucky’s environment. Awards will be presented to eligible high school students who create art using the contest themes of conservation, pollution prevention and [...]
The Innovate to Mitigate project, funded by the National Science Foundation, invites middle school and high school students and student groups to participate in a competition to reduce climate change by coming up with ideas to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Students will compete for cash prizes in the two-phase competition. In round one, students are asked to submit [...]
The deadline for high school cooking teams to enter the 2015 Farm to School Junior Chef competition has been extended to March 12 due to winter weather. Kentucky students in grades 9-12 are eligible for the competition sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, which is designed to offer youth the opportunity to learn valuable skills in recipe development, food [...]
The eCybermission web-based STEM competition is seeking more than 2,000 virtual judges to evaluate entries from the nearly 28,000 students enrolled in the competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Army, the competition involves teams of students in grades 6-9 are submitting entries in which they propose a solution to a real problem in their community. Volunteers will independently evaluate and score [...]
Students are invited to put their creative skills to work for wildlife in the 2015 Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest, part of the Endangered Species Day celebration. The contest provides school children in grades K-12 an opportunity to learn about threatened and endangered wildlife and the importance of protecting them, and encourages kids to express their knowledge and support [...]
The 2015 College Board Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts competition, which recognizes and celebrates the achievements of arts initiatives that serve students in grades 6–12 and that promote student learning and creativity in exemplary and innovative ways, is accepting entries from schools. The awards are given in three categories: Arts Integration: Awarding an initiative that uses an [...]
The Kentucky Shakespeare Competition, sponsored by the Kentucky Branch of the English Speaking Union (ESU), will be held March 1 at Bellarmine University in Louisville. Part of the ESU’s National Shakespeare Competition, the school-based program provides teachers across the country with a performance-based program for the study of English/language arts and Shakespeare. High school students develop communication skills and an [...]
The National WWII Museum’s National 2015 High School Essay Contest and 2015 Middle School Essay Contest is accepting submissions for essays. Students are asked to address the question, “How do you define a hero?” in their essays as the museum marks the 70th anniversary of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Cash prizes will be awarded to the [...]