The University of Notre Dame will host a regional final of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, the nation’s premier science research competition for high school students, Friday and Saturday (Nov. 7-8).
The New Jersey-based nonprofit Siemens Foundation created the competition to enhance science and mathematics education in America. It is open to individuals and teams of high school students who develop independent research projects in the physical or biological sciences or mathematics. Competitions in six regions across the United States are being held throughout November. Regional scholarship winners advance to the national competition Dec. 5 through Dec. 8 in Washington, D.C., for a top individual prize of $100,000. Members of the top winning team will share a $100,000 scholarship.
The Siemens Foundation has partnered with six of America’s leading research universities to assist in judging and hosting the regional competitions throughout the fall: Notre Dame and the California Institute of Technology (Nov. 7-8); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin (Nov. 14-15); and the Georgia Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University (Nov. 21-22).
The Notre Dame regional finalists will present their independent research projects to a panel of judges composed of Notre Dame faculty. The individual regional winner will receive an award of $3,000; members of the winning team will share a prize of $6,000. All regional individual and team runners-up will be awarded $1,000 scholarships.
The public can view student posters at 5:30 p.m. Friday (Nov. 7) in the reading room on the first floor of the Jordan Hall of Science.
The Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology is a program of the Siemens Foundation, a national leader in math and science education providing nearly $2 million in scholarships and awards annually. The competition is administered by Discovery Education.
Originally published by William G. Gilroy at news.nd.edu on November 04, 2014.