CONTEST: Recognize Excellence in Science Writing

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Recognize Excellence in Science Writing

For the fourth consecutive year, Britannica Digital Learning will be a partner company for The DuPont Challenge, an essay contest for middle school and high school students that recognizes excellence in science writing. This year students in kindergarten through grade 5 can also participate in creative, inquiry-based explorations with the help and guidance of their teachers. Britannica will provide a host of prizes to the winners, including a set of educational apps and more than 65 ebooks on scientific topics. The winners’ schools will each receive a year’s subscription to Britannica School and Britannica’s Pathways: Science classroom instructional program. Britannica will also provide prizes to students who earn honorable mentions. The DuPont Challenge winners will be honored at a gala celebration in Orlando, Florida, in the spring. The expenses-paid awards trip will include a stay at the Walt Disney World Resort and a tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. As in previous years, middle school and high school students in the United States, Canada and the US territories are invited to submit essays on a range of science topics.

Deadlines: January 31, 2015, for middle school/high school submissions; March 1, 2015, for elementary division submissions

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