Students (ages 5-18) in the United States have been invited to design a Google logo.

The Doodle 4 Google theme is “What if…?” Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas.

• What if…I could live underwater, or in outer space, or in Colonial America?
• What if…I could see into the future?
• What if…I could build any kind of invention I wanted?

1. 40 finalists will be invited to a workshop with Google’s official doodler, Dennis Hwang, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.
2. The U.S. public will vote for their favorites.
3. The winning design will replace the regular Google homepage on May 22, 2008. This champion doodler will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and his or her school will receive a $25,000 technology grant.

• School registration closes on March 28th.
• Entries must be received by April 12th, 2008.
• Visit Doodle 4 Google to register. Here you will find all the details of the competition, plus detailed lesson plans.

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Second Annual World Teachers’ Day Video Contest

• Educators are invited to create videos demonstrating classroom best practices.
• Videos Due : June 21, 2007
• Winner announced Oct. 5, 2007
• Prizes
  • Seventy-five finalists will receive an iPod shuffle.
  • Five regional winners will receive a SMART Board interactive whiteboard
  • One global winner will receive an all inclusive trip to attend the BETT 2008 education trade show in London, England.
• See the web site for all the details.

 I know several teachers in our District who could pull this off. Whadaya say guys?

Ego Breed. “camcorder.” Ego Breed’s photo stream. Feb. 14, 2007. April 25, 2007. http://flickr.com/photos/egobreed/390127118/

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 Do you have a crazy “Off the Wall” story about an entertaining school-related incident? You could win a new 3M™ Digital Media System 815 just for sharing your tale. This wall mounted media system is similar to a SMART Board.

Contest Rules

• short story of 100 words or less, about a situation or event at a school
• no limit to the number of entries
• fill out the online form, or print and fill out the submission form and fax
• Limit one prize per school 
• One system to be awarded in June, 2007 (entries due June 15) and another in December, 2007 (entries due December 14)
• Winners of the prizes will be notified by phone or email during the month after the drawing date.

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In honor of its fifth anniversary, the Win a Wireless Lab sweepstakes from CDW-G and Discovery Education will include five winners. Through the program, CDW-G and Discovery Education will provide winning K-12 schools with a technology solution valued at more than $50,000. Each lab includes 20 laptop computers, a wireless cart and access point, educational software, and training. You can enter once a day until May 1, 2007.

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Kids are Authors is Scholastic’s annual competition for teams of three or more  students who write and illustrate their own books. Scholastic Book Fairs will publish the winning books and distribute them at Book Fairs throughout the country. The 2006 Nonfiction Winner was What Do You Call a Rhyming Riddle? A Hinky Pinky! It was written and illustrated by Fifth grade students at the St. Joseph Montessori School in Columbus, OH. The 2006 Fiction Winner was Problems with Pete the Pencil and Eddie the Eraser. It was written and illustrated by Third grade students at Kingsland Elementary in Spring Valley, MN. See the Rules & Entry Form web page at Scholastic for all the details.

• K-8 
• Deadline: March 15, 2007
• 2 Grand Prize schools: $5,000 in merchandise
• 25 Honorable Mentions: $500 in merchandise
• Winners announced by May 31st

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