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National YoungArts Foundation offers life-long support for teens gifted in visual, performing, or literary arts
Being admitted to the National YoungArts program is more than an honor. It’s a passport to a lifetime of mentoring and support in the arts.
The National Arts Competition is open to artists ages 15 to 18, or in grades 10 to 12, in these artistic disciplines:
- classical music
- dance
- design arts
- film
- jazz
- photography
- theater
- visual arts
- voice
- writing
Winners will receive cash awards, take classes with accomplished artists, and benefit from a lifetime of mentoring, performance opportunities, and professional support.
The application deadline is Oct. 11, 2019. Find out more at the YoungArts competition web site and in this recent article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Can you design a better way to grow plants in space? Enter this contest.
The International Space Station isn’t the easiest place for agriculture. There’s simply not much room for a garden. Today, plants aboard the spaceship are grown in small cubes. It’s workable, but it doesn’t maximize the available space.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is working with NASA to improve gardening systems for the ISS and has opened the Growing Beyond Earth Maker Contest. The contest challenges students in high school and college, as well as professionals, to design and build better systems.
Entries will be judged by a panel of NASA scientists. Five winners will be selected from each level (high school, college, professional). Those winners will go on to have their designs tested to determine the final three winners.
Register now to start getting information and briefings. An initial webinar with information about current gardening systems aboard the ISS will be tomorrow, July 10. The final deadline for finished designs is Feb. 3, 2020.
Data science project at Emory seeks high school and college students
Ymir Vigfusson, assistant professor of computer science at Emory University, describes himself as a computer hacker. More accurately, he goes on the offensive to test the security of computer systems.
Vigfusson is the faculty advisor for the Coke Rewards Code Citizen Science Project, a research project being conducted by Ph.D. students in the Emory math department. The project combines data science, statistics, and machine learning to investigate the security risks in the generation of codes for the Coke Rewards program.
The graduate students are looking for help from students in 9th grade or higher with an interest in computer science, data science, cryptography, or related fields. Programming experience isn’t required. Students will complete a tutorial in the Python programming language, which will be used in the analysis of the codes.
The project is expected to run through September 2019. Work can be done on the Emory campus or remotely, and the hours are completely flexible.
After working on the project, students can use what they’ve learned as the basis for independent science fair projects.
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