Contest and Scholarship Opportunities

NOTE: The MPE Board of Directors does not necessarily endorse any of the organizations or people offering these opportunities. 

Opportunities are listed sequentially according to deadline or event.

"Hello, my name is Machan Taylor and I work with the Kids Science Challenge, a free nationwide competition for third to sixth graders, made possible by the National Science Foundation. Many homeschoolers participated in the first year of the Kids Science Challenge, and we hope you'll have a look at this fun way to turn kids on to the world of science.

Our website <http://www.kidsciencechallenge.com/> offers games, downloadable activities, videos, and curricula aligned to national standards. Kids learn about several fields of science, and are invited to submit an experiment or problem for our select group of kid-friendly scientists and engineers. The children whose entries are chosen, receive wonderful prizes and get to collaborate with the scientists to see their ideas come alive. The first thousand entrants receive free science activity kits and your home schoolers can use our activities to jump-start their own science projects at home.

Check out the website for stories, pictures and videos of last years winners. On our press page, youll see some of the great national and local stories written about us.

On October 1, 2009, we'll launch the second year of the competition with a new group of scientists and engineers. [Deadline to register is February 28, 2010.]

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Machan Taylor

Admin Asst/Kids Science Challenge

www.kidsciencechallenge.com"

 

Get the school year off to the Write start with Writer's Groove! Writer's Groove specializes in writing and literature instruction for 9-12 graders. We provide in-home tutoring and can also organize and facilitate creative writing workshops and literature discussion groups for home school high school students. In addition, we provide AP test prep help and help drafting and revising college application essays. To learn more, visit www.writersgroovekc.com or email us at info@writersgroovekc.com.

 

If you are looking to reduce college costs for your children, check this out. Earn a low-cost bachelor's degree from one of several accredited universities. Download my free 67-page manual. (There are no strings attached. My manual really is free.) Gary North, Ph.D. My manual is titled Affordable Accredited Colleges: An Unconventional Guide. There are two versions. My recommended strategies are different, depending on whether you are a high school graduate or are still in high school.

Here are the web links:

If you are a high school student, download this version of my manual:

High School Students' Edition <http://www.garynorth.com/college--students.pdf>

If you are a high school graduate, download this version of my manual:

High School Graduates' Edition <http://www.garynorth.com/college--self-funded.pdf>

 

HomeworkKansas is a one-to-one tutoring service for every Kansas student. The tutoring is live and the tutors are teachers, college faculty, professional tutors, graduate students and subject specialists. All tutors have been carefully screened. Tutoring sessions take place online. Students initiate a tutoring session via a computer with Internet access. Students may access a tutoring session at their local public library or a computer at home. Tutors are available seven days a week, from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Tutoring in Spanish is available Sunday through Thursday, from 4:00pm to 9:00pm. Tutoring sessions average 20 minutes in length. The service is free. There is no limit to the number of tutoring sessions a student may initiate. For more information, go to www.tutor.com.

To access a tutor, students need a valid Johnson County Library card and PIN, and can log in on this page: www.jocolibrary.org/homework