1. Competitions in SIGNET 2008-2009 The Competition Begins!

2. 7 th and 8 th grade Competition Based Real Competitions on Internet 8 th grade chooses 2 7 th grade chooses 1 Evaluation SIGNET Criteria Contest Criteria

3. Competitions? External Competitions School Level LocalStateNational

4. Your Choices Future City Movies With A Message (MHz Shortie Student Film Festival) National History Day ThinkQuest Webpages The Stock Market Game Writers Workshop Kids Are Authors Promising Young Writers Teen Ink

5. How to Choose Look at websites Think about your interests Handout includes list and websites Look at past years’ winners Read contest requirements Talk with family Talk with friends Explain your reason for choosing the projects you list Please be flexible!

6. Future City Competition Sponsored by National Engineers Week Purpose is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands- on" application

7. Future City Competition Research Technology Topic Written paper applying technology research Use software to design a city of the future Incorporate research technology into city design Build 3-D model with working/moving parts 5 member teams, 3 students, 1 Coach (teacher), 1 Mentor (an Engineer)

8. National History Day Students engage in discovery and interpretation of historical topics related to theme. Hone talents and produce creative and scholarly projects in the form of exhibits, documentaries, historical papers, or performances. Culminates with a national competition at the University of Maryland in June.

9. The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies

10. Movies with a Message MHz Shortie Awards Student Film Festival Entry Categories: Live Action (includes narrative, experimental and documentary films, public service announcements, and music videos) Animation (includes stop-motion drawings, claymation and computer animation.) Daily News Program All original work (music included!)

12. Think Quest Work with a team of 3 to 6 students Choose a category from many Build a website Upload the website to the Oracle server for the world to see

14. Stock Market Game Build an understanding of stocks, bonds and mutual funds Learn more about real life financial concepts in a fun forum! No more than 4 students on a team

16. Writers Workshops Kids Are Authors Group Scholastic Books Promising Young Writers Individual Spontaneous writings NCTE sponsored for 8 th graders only Teen Ink Teen Ink is a monthly print magazine, website, and a book series all written by teens for teens. There are over 18,000 pages of student writing on this site.

18. Kids Are Authors Annual competition to encourage students to use their reading, writing, and artistic skills to create their own books. Teams of three or more to write and illustrate their own book. Scholastic Book Fairs will publish the winning books and distribute them at Book Fairs throughout the country.

19. Project Links Future City Competition http://www.futurecity.org/index.htm http://www.futurecity.org/index.htm Movies With A Message http://www.mhznetworks.org/education/shortieawards/ http://www.mhznetworks.org/education/shortieawards/ National History Day http://www.nhd.org/Themes.htm http://www.nhd.org/Themes.htm Think Quest http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ The Stock Market Game http://www.vcee.org/smg.htm Writers Workshops: Kids are Authors http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/kaa/index.htm Kids are Authors http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/kaa/index.htm http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/kaa/index.htm Promising Young Writers http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student/pyw Promising Young Writers http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student/pyw http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student/pyw Teen Ink http://teenink.com/Contests/ Teen Ink http://teenink.com/Contests/http://teenink.com/Contests/