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Program Participants Participation Guidelines
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| Inspired by the upcoming Centennial of Powered Flight, International Public Science Day 2003 celebrates the science and art of flight as it occurs throughout all fields of human endeavor.
After being selected for participation, each participating science center identifies a team of students who will be in grades 7-12 during the 2002-2003 school year. The team should include a minimum of five students. These students may be participants in other existing youth programs or the science center may invite a new group of students. Staff from the science center support the students as they investigate ideas related to the program theme, "Taking Flight!" The students then work as a team to create an online exhibition of their work, demonstrating how the web can be used as a workbench for
science education. On International Public
Science Day, the teams
showcase their work at their science center or in their local communities. That showcase may be held at
any appropriate location, including (but not limited to) the science center,
a school, a local community center, a municipal
government meeting, etc.
A representative of each participating science center attends an orientation conference in Washington, DC.
All travel expenses are paid by the program.
At that conference, each representative receives a mini-grant in the
amount of $4,000.00 (four thousand dollars) to be used to support the program activities.
In April, 2003, a panel of judges meets to review the content
of the webspaces. This judging panel selects the winner of "The Unisys Prize for Online Science Education" which carries a cash award in the amount of
$10,000 (US$).
The following documents provide additional information about the program.
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