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Silent Spring Essay Contest
Posted By [|Mary Ocwieja] on 1/20/2012 9:36:20 AM
 * Deadline: March 15, 2012**

Fifty years ago, the world was rocked by the publication of a quiet tirade against the chemical industry. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed the dangers and risks of everyday chemicals and commonplace practices; it launched the modern American environmental movements and also influenced similar movements all over the globe.

In commemoration of fifty years of Silent Spring, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (in collaboration with the British Council, the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, and the Consulate General of the United States, Munich) is soliciting essays from junior and senior scholars which analyze the impact and reception of Silent Spring as well as the legacy of Rachel Carson.

Essays might address one or more of the following questions:

• How has Silent Spring shaped environmentalism or environmental thought in various countries? How is it a global phenomenon? • What elements of Silent Spring have had the greatest impact on environmental leaders? Policy makers? Anti-environmentalists? • How is Silent Spring still relevant to current environmental debates? • How has the relevance of Rachel Carson’s writing changed over the decades since Silent Spring was published? • If Rachel Carson were alive today, what would she be writing about?

In the spirit of Carson’s own writing, submissions are encouraged to address an interested public with an approachable and provocative style. The RCC will be awarding both a junior and senior prize for the most outstanding essays:

• Junior Prize: $1,000 for 1,000 words (or less); Open to students aged 13-18 • Senior Prize: $2,000 for 2,000 words (or less); Open to anyone aged 19 and above

The winning essays, as well as those which receive an honorable mention, will be published in a commemorative edition of the RCC Perspectives series, an occasional papers series available in print and online. **Submissions are due via email to** perspectives@carsoncenter.lmu.de **by 15 March 2012.**

Please also include a short biographical profile and indicate whether the essay is to be considered for the junior or senior prize. The essays will be reviewed by an international committee of scholars and writers. For questions, please submit queries to perspectives@carsoncenter.lmu.de. Contest & Enrichment Pts: The Kavli Foundation is challenging Grades 6-12 students across the world to brainstorm and share their ideas! This year's contest theme is inspired the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges. The NAE recently asked some of the world's leading technological thinkers to identify what needs to be done to make people and our planet thrive.

Students worldwide are invited to submit entries to the 2012 video contest, with cash awards and prizes for the top entries. The best videos will be shown at the Festival Expo during April 27-29, 2012, where hundreds of thousands of science fans are expected to gather in Washington, D.C. The first place winner will also receive a travel stipend to attend the Expo. More info at:

http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2012festival/contests/kavli-video-contest

The Cell- In Depth View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmwvj9X4GNY

Check out this nice video about the cell and its organelles/ processes For a chance at a few enrichment points, make a poster, write and essay, make a presentation, or any other project that will allow you to convey the information covered in the video and share with Mrs. Murray or Mr. Connelly.

10 pt enrichment opportunity:
Check out: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-january-wolf-moon.html

Make a poster, write an essay, make a presentation and share with Mrs. Murray.

//Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited’s Award-Winning Rivers Conservation & Fly Fishing Youth Camp //

 * BOILING SPRINGS: **Applications are now being accepted for the 18th annual Rivers Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp being held June 17 –22, 2012 at the Allenberry Resort in Boiling Springs, Cumberland County,

The highly structured curriculum is based on college level classes. The students are instructed in ecology, aquatic biology, geology, hydrogeology, erosion and sedimentation control, ichthyology, riparian corridor protection, watershed management, entomology and much more. Students also participate in a hands-on stream habitat improvement project.

 But it’s not all work. Fly fishing and fly tying are included. Nationally known instructors teach the students fly casting, fly tying, stream etiquette, how to “read” the water, and of course there is fishing. The camp begins on Sunday and ends the following Friday

 The camp will be limited to 32 selected qualified students, ages 14 to 17**. The applicants must have been born between June 22, 1994 and June 17, 1998.** The thirty-two students will be selected through an application process where they must state why they want to attend camp and they must provide a reference from a science teacher or guidance counselor. The competition for admission is fierce. The camp began accepting applications for the 2012 camp on November 1, 2011 and all applications must be postmarked not later than March 31, 2012.

 The camp costs each student $350 for the entire week. All meals and accommodations are included for the residence camp. A student need not be an accomplished fly fisher or a budding aquatic biologist to attend. All the student needs to be is highly motivated and willing to learn.

The Rivers Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp was founded in 1995 through the efforts of the late Dr. John R. “Jack” Beck and the late Enoch S. “Inky” Moore, Jr., Pennsylvania Fish Commissioner. Their goal was to select thirty-two teenagers each year who are the leaders in their class. The thought is that today’s leaders in high school become the leader of tomorrow’s communities. In a few short years they will be the bankers, lawyers, realtors, municipal officials and the leaders in their communities. If the camp can implant a kernel of knowledge in today’s students about the importance of clean water, when those students become the decision makers in their communities it may have a positive impact on how water resources are used.

 Alumni are welcome to attend the Thursday evening picnic and share their experiences since they attended camp.

The highly successful camp has been emulated in Michigan, North Carolina, Maine, Montana, Washington, Arkansas, New Hampshire, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia/D.C./Maryland/West Virginia with other states looking to start their own programs.

 For more information or an application brochure contact the camp at:

 Rivers Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp  PO Box 71  Boiling Springs, PA 17007

 or visit the camp’s website at www.riverscamp.com. Join the camp group Rivers Conservation & Fly Fishing Youth Camp on Facebook.

http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=1297791386 http://quizlet.com/6515496/macromolecule-formationbreakdown-and-carbohydrates-flash-cards/ Submission Deadline: February 15, 2012 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">@http://www.psbr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101:2012-essay-contest&catid=34&Itemid=86
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2012 PSBR ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST FOR GRADES 7-12 **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">PSBR’s Annual Essay Contest is divided into two separate contests – one for 7&8 graders AND one for high school students. The essay contest is free to enter and consists of **cash prizes** and an invitation to attend PSBR’s annual awards dinner on May 23rd.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The contest recognizes students who demonstrate a superior understanding of bioscience research and the appropriate use of animals in biomedical research, and who can artfully communicate that understanding in writing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">(see Mrs. Murray if you want to do this for enrichment pts in class)

=Water Beetle Forum:= Answer student generated questions about water beetles in the Moodle forum: http://cmsnorthwestern.iu5.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=4455 Post the answer and the url

=Prop of water / nanotechnology= Enrichment pts: (+10pts) Research the web and find products other than those discussed in class that involve nanotechnology and surface manipulation (making the surface hydrophobic or hydrophilic) Create a poster (8.5 x 11 is fine) or post in the Moodle [|Nanotechnology Forum]. Address the following topics:
 * Name of Product
 * How it changes the surface
 * Graphic (can be the product label, or other related pic)
 * Benefit to society
 * How it involves nanotechnology

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">YouTube Space Lab <__ @http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-pr-space __> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">is a worldwide educational initiative that challenges 14-18 year-old students to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. The two winning experiments will be conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube. A prestigious panel of scientists, astronauts, and educators, including renowned professor Stephen Hawking, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s Associate Administrator of Education and former Astronaut Leland Melvin, ESA Astronaut Frank De Winne, JAXA Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and Cirque du Soleil’s founder Guy Laliberté, will judge the entries with input from the YouTube community. Students in two age categories, 14-16 years old and 17-18 years old, either alone or in groups of up to three, may submit a YouTube video describing their experiment to YouTube.com/SpaceLab <__ @http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-pr-space __>. Submissions close on December 7. =Young Naturalist Awards 2012= Research-based science contest for students grades 7-12 more information at: [|www.amnh.org/yna] Deadline = March 9, 2012

=ExploraVision / Toshiba Contest= Team Competition Very Nice Prizes including $10,000 savings bond See [|www.exploravision.org/2012] for more info Completed projects must be submitted by Feb 1, 2012

=Essay Contest:= Check it out at http://becominghuman.org/node/write-lucy-letter

=Environaut Lake Erie Water testing= Students interested in participating in an one day water testing a board the Gannon University Research vessel, the Environaut, should submit their name in the form below. Boat sampling is weather dependent. A trip to the Tom Ridge Center will follow the baot sampling. Should weather conditions prohibit off shore sampling, the class will spend the day at the Tom Ridge Center or other suitable water testing area. 18 student spots are available; student selection will be made upon career interest and timeliness of registration. Cost to student = $10-15.

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