No Boundaries (contest)

No Boundaries is a national competition sponsored by USA Today and NASA. It encourages high school students to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (the STEM fields).^[1]

Students may enter individually, or as a group of up to four. Entrants create a project about a career in STEM, which may vary greatly in format. In 2008, the first place group of four made a Power-Point presentation called "It's Electric", about electrical engineering^[2]. In 2009^[3], the contest was won by four girls who created a website about astrobiology^[4]. The group who won the second place prize in 2009 made a "cookbook" with recipes for how to become a food scientist for NASA; third place that year created a simple home-made yarn-bound storybook^[5]. First place winners receive $2000 dollars to split between members of a group, and a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Sources

1. ^ "No Boundaries". Usatoday.com. 2010-03-31. http://www.usatoday.com/educate/nasa/index1.html. Retrieved 2010-05-10. 
2. ^ "No Boundaries". Usatoday.com. 2009-03-10. http://www.usatoday.com/educate/NASA/winners.html. Retrieved 2010-05-10. 
3. ^ "NASA - No Boundaries at Kennedy". Nasa.gov. 2009-12-09. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/kennedy/home/no_boundaries.html. Retrieved 2010-05-10. 
4. ^ "No Boundaries - ASTROBIOLOGY". Web.prairieschool.net. http://web.prairieschool.net/astrobiology/index.html. Retrieved 2010-05-10. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ "No Boundaries - 2009 Contest Winners". Webcache.googleusercontent.com. 2010-04-20. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xRK46ssqiV4J:www.usatodayeducate.com/09winners/+2009+NASA+No+Boundaries+winners&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Retrieved 2010-05-10.