CONTESTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Students should visit this page to learn about opportunities to enter contests and the like. Please let me know if you hear of any contests that are not listed here. Entering competitions helps students become published and certainly looks great on a college resume -- even if students do not win. Only a tiny percentage of contestants can win and colleges know this. Entering contests despite not winning shows tenacity and demonstrates community support. After all, without contestants there would be no events.
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National PTA Reflections 2018-2019
Heroes Around Me
For details: click here.
Deadline: 19 October 2018 by 3:30 pm.
Heroes Around Me
For details: click here.
Deadline: 19 October 2018 by 3:30 pm.
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED
LET'S KEEP THIS OPPORTUNITY ON THE RADAR FOR NEXT YEAR!
The non-profit National YoungArts (http://www.youngarts.org/) identifies the most accomplished young artists in the visual arts, cinematic art, classical music, dance, design arts, jazz, photography, theater, voice, and literary arts and provides them with monetary awards and lifelong support.
The YoungArts’ program seeks emerging artists ages 15–18. These students submit examples of their work through an online application. Winners are selected through a blind adjudication process conducted by an independent panel of highly accomplished artists. YoungArts winners:
Register on Naviance under College Visits.
Deadline for this year has passed: October 13, 2017.
Click here to learn more.
LET'S KEEP THIS OPPORTUNITY ON THE RADAR FOR NEXT YEAR!
The non-profit National YoungArts (http://www.youngarts.org/) identifies the most accomplished young artists in the visual arts, cinematic art, classical music, dance, design arts, jazz, photography, theater, voice, and literary arts and provides them with monetary awards and lifelong support.
The YoungArts’ program seeks emerging artists ages 15–18. These students submit examples of their work through an online application. Winners are selected through a blind adjudication process conducted by an independent panel of highly accomplished artists. YoungArts winners:
- Receive up to $10,000 in cash awards
- Attend Arts Week in Miami, all expenses paid
- Take master classes with accomplished artists (Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sarah Brightman, Jeff Koons, Wynton Marsalis, etc.)
- Have performance and exhibition opportunities at some of the nation’s leading cultural institutions
- Become eligible for nomination as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts
- Receive a lifetime of mentoring and professional support
- Achieve national recognition
Register on Naviance under College Visits.
Deadline for this year has passed: October 13, 2017.
Click here to learn more.
WATTPAD: "Whatever you're into, it's all free on Wattpad: the world's largest community for readers and writers."
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SCRIBOPHILE: "Scribophile is a respectful online writing workshop and writer's community. Writers of all skill levels join to improve each other's work with thoughtful critiques and by sharing their writing experience. We're the writing group to join if you want to get the best feedback around, to learn how to get published, and to be a part of the friendliest and most successful writing workshop online."
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CAMP NANOWRIMO: "An Idyllic Writers' Retreat, Smack-dab in the Middle of Your Crazy Life"
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- Complete a writing project in a month
- Track your progress
- Get online support
- Free to participants
- 100% fun
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Be sure to access the "College" page on this site for supports directly focused on college. You may visit that page also by clicking here.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE SPACE EXPLORATION INDUSTRY?
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This excerpt is from A Mighty Girl post:
Nichelle Nichols -- famous for her role as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek -- took to the skies recently on a NASA mission aboard SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, the largest airborne observatory in the world! The 82-year-old Nichols has collaborated with NASA for decades to help them recruit more diverse candidates to the space program and encourage young people's interest in science. In the 1980s, she also flew on SOFIA's predecessor, the Kulper Airborne Observatory.
In a blog post, Nichols described the aim of Tuesday's mission as follows: "This SOFIA flight will be observing star-forming regions, first in the constellation Sagittarius, then Aquila and Cygnus. They’ll be utilizing radio telescopes to detect emission from ionized hydrogen produced by young stars. Finally, we’ll be looking at a protostar in Taurus." Operating out of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Southern California, SOFIA flies at an altitude of approximately 41,000 feet (12 km) -- this altitude allows it to fly above nearly all the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere, which can block some infrared wavelengths from reaching the ground.
When the original Star Trek series ended in 1969, Nichols turned her attention to attracting more diverse candidates to NASA. “There were no women, and there were no minorities in the space program -- and that's supposed to represent the whole country?” she explained. “Not in this day and age. We just absolutely cannot have that.” So she accepted NASA’s invitation to help recruit the country’s first female astronauts and astronauts of color -- among them Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. “Sally called me to tell me that I was the way she had heard about the space program,” she said. Today, Nichols remains a staunch advocate of the value of space exploration: “Space travel benefits us here on Earth [a]nd we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.”
If your Mighty Girl is fascinated by space, we recommend books, toys, clothing, and even room decor for budding astronauts, astronomers, and astrophysicists from toddlers to teens in our post, "Mighty Careers: I Want To Be An Astronaut!" at http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=5812
For more stories of girls and women in the sciences, including many biographies, visit our "Science & Technology" section at http://www.amightygirl.com/…/general-int…/science-technology
To spark your Mighty Girl's interest in learning about science in a hands-on way, visit our "Hands On & Science Kits" section for lots of fun science kids for children and teens athttp://www.amightygirl.com/toys/toys-games/science-math
And, if your Mighty Girl loves to show off her love of science and technology, visit our STEM-themed t-shirt section at http://www.amightygirl.com/clothing?clothing_themes=146
To visit this page, click here.
This excerpt is from A Mighty Girl post:
Nichelle Nichols -- famous for her role as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek -- took to the skies recently on a NASA mission aboard SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, the largest airborne observatory in the world! The 82-year-old Nichols has collaborated with NASA for decades to help them recruit more diverse candidates to the space program and encourage young people's interest in science. In the 1980s, she also flew on SOFIA's predecessor, the Kulper Airborne Observatory.
In a blog post, Nichols described the aim of Tuesday's mission as follows: "This SOFIA flight will be observing star-forming regions, first in the constellation Sagittarius, then Aquila and Cygnus. They’ll be utilizing radio telescopes to detect emission from ionized hydrogen produced by young stars. Finally, we’ll be looking at a protostar in Taurus." Operating out of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Southern California, SOFIA flies at an altitude of approximately 41,000 feet (12 km) -- this altitude allows it to fly above nearly all the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere, which can block some infrared wavelengths from reaching the ground.
When the original Star Trek series ended in 1969, Nichols turned her attention to attracting more diverse candidates to NASA. “There were no women, and there were no minorities in the space program -- and that's supposed to represent the whole country?” she explained. “Not in this day and age. We just absolutely cannot have that.” So she accepted NASA’s invitation to help recruit the country’s first female astronauts and astronauts of color -- among them Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. “Sally called me to tell me that I was the way she had heard about the space program,” she said. Today, Nichols remains a staunch advocate of the value of space exploration: “Space travel benefits us here on Earth [a]nd we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.”
If your Mighty Girl is fascinated by space, we recommend books, toys, clothing, and even room decor for budding astronauts, astronomers, and astrophysicists from toddlers to teens in our post, "Mighty Careers: I Want To Be An Astronaut!" at http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=5812
For more stories of girls and women in the sciences, including many biographies, visit our "Science & Technology" section at http://www.amightygirl.com/…/general-int…/science-technology
To spark your Mighty Girl's interest in learning about science in a hands-on way, visit our "Hands On & Science Kits" section for lots of fun science kids for children and teens athttp://www.amightygirl.com/toys/toys-games/science-math
And, if your Mighty Girl loves to show off her love of science and technology, visit our STEM-themed t-shirt section at http://www.amightygirl.com/clothing?clothing_themes=146