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Ideas Challenge

Calling all Middle and High School students!

The Cambridge Science Festival is a multifaceted, multicultural celebration each Spring, making science accessible, interactive and fun, highlighting the impact of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in all our lives.

Join the celebration! The Festival challenges you to come up with a Big Idea that solves a problem in your community. Form a team, identify the problem, ask questions, do research, develop a solution, and receive feedback from experts in the field. Your solution could be a prototype, paper, or project.

What’s your Big Idea for...
Health & Medicine
Education
Energy
Environment
Water
Entrepreneurship
Agriculture (i.e. hydroponics in the classroom)
Mobile Devices & Communication (i.e. How can my smart phone...)
Housing (i.e. What ideas exist for more affordable housing, and what might the solution look like in your community?)
Transportation
Emergency & Disaster Relief
Suggest your own category ...


The Challenge
Form a team and solve a problem in your community using science, technology, engineering, or math!
Teams should be 3-5 students, with one faculty/parent adviser from your school or program.  You will be expected to keep an online account of your project (i.e. blog or wiki).

Register your Ideas Challenge team by: December 9, 2011
Ideas Challenge Proposal due: January 20, 2012
Ideas Challenge Project deadline: March 30, 2012
Ideas Celebration: April 29, 2012

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