Davidson Fellows Scholarship
Posted on November 11th, 2019 by Mary Lord
U.S. citizens 18 and under can receive $50,000, $25,000, and $10,000 scholarships for completing a “significant piece of work” in STEM, literature, music, philosophy, or an outside-the-box project. Applications are due Feb. 12, 2020.
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Music can be a great teaching and learning tool – even for conveying the complexities of STEM. Showcase your or your students’ songwriting talent in the VOICES (Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Sound) songwriting contest. Entries due December 31, 2019. 
Students in grades 6 to 12 learn simple circuitry by creating light-up paper cards using only copper tape, a coin cell battery, a light-emitting diode (LED), and small electronic components. An artistic way to teach the basics of how circuits function—no soldering required! 
Students in grades 3 to 5 work in groups to design a structure that will withstand and protect people from tornadoes. Each group then creates a poster with the name of their engineering firm and a picture of their structure. Finally, each group presents their posters to the class.
A farm, community art show, dinner party, or classroom? The possibilities are endless when transforming a parking space into a roadside showcase for the design side of STEM this PARK(ing) Day, Friday, September 21. 
Self-healing roads and Tick Tock, a Lyme disease-protection wristwatch that not only alerts wearers to the presence of ticks but sprays bug repellent are among the winners of the National Academy of Engineering’s 2018 EngineerGirl essay competition.
Students learn about the Great Pacific garbage patch, research the extent and impact of plastics pollution on oceans, and present that information as a short, eye-catching newsletter suitable to hand out to fast-food restaurant customers. 
When “The Victors” peals from the 55-bell carillon high inside the University of Michigan’s Burton Tower, many students below can hum the famous fight song as they stroll. One group, though, also understands the engineering and skilled labor behind the resonant tones, having sculpted and poured metal to make carillon bells that achieve a particular sound in a course called Shaping the Sound of Bronze. 
High school students design and build wind chimes using their knowledge of physics and sound waves, and under such constraints as weight, cost, and the number of musical notes their chimes must generate. They make mathematical computations to determine the pipe lengths. Links to similar activities for younger students included in activity scaling section.
