Awards and benefits
Grand prize
$5,000 for each team member and for the teacher’s academic program.
Awards for each of the four challenges
1st–$5,000 to be split by the team, $5,000 for the teacher’s academic program.
2nd–$3,000 to be split by the team, $3,000 for the teacher’s academic program.
3rd–$1,500 to be split by the team, $1,500 for the teacher’s academic program
Other awards will include:
- Best cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Best multimedia presentation
- Audience favorite
- Most innovative
- Most likely to succeed in the marketplace
All student participants will receive a great t-shirt. Teacher advisors will also receive a gift package with fun and helpful items for use in the classroom.
Besides winning awards worth thousands of dollars for yourselves and your school, you get to do the following:
- Learn how to translate your ideas into productive results.
- Present your solutions to University faculty, as well as business and political leaders.
- Attend an awards ceremony with a keynote address from Denis Hayes, a national leader in the field.
- Interact with students from high schools across the state.
- Visit a major research university and tour its laboratories.
- Get a great t-shirt!
Awards banquet keynote speaker Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes is the President of the Bullitt Foundation and board chair of the International Earth Day Network, as well as the immediate past chair of the Energy Foundation.
He left his graduate studies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to coordinate the first Earth Day in 1970—an event often credited with launching the modern American environmental movement.
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Scholarship for seniors
Participating high school seniors may also compete for a $1,000 scholarship to attend Washington State University. To be eligible, you must enroll at Washington State University in fall 2008 or spring 2009 and choose a major in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. For additional information, contact Jeanne Dahmen, assistant to the associate dean, at dahmenj@wsu.edu.