There are tons of resources on the web that can show you how engineering fits into math, science, technology, and everyday life. Check out these resources to see how you can get involved in engineering now!

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• 4,000 Years of Women in Science
  This site offers a wide-ranging look at the roles of women in science, dispelling any notion that women's involvement in science is a recent development.
  
  
• The ASEE Directory of Engineering Colleges
  Updated to include the results of the 2003 surveys. This directory provides a detailed profile of 342 U.S. and Canadian schools offering undergraduate and graduate engineering, as well as engineering technology programs with the intent of preparing prospective students for their future education in engineering.
  
  
• ASEE Engineering, Go For It!
  ASEE's new guidebook to engineering for high school students.
  
  
• The Atomic Archive
  This well-organized site presents the history of nuclear power and the atomic bomb with biographies of major figures, updates on current developments in nuclear science and diplomacy, a timeline, and a teacher's guide for classroom use.
  
  
• The ABCs of Nuclear Science
  A soup-to-nuts site exploring the atom, with a detailed glossary and many activities and high school level experiments.
  
  
• Amazing Space
  Set up by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) in Baltimore, which is responsible for the operation of the remarkable Hubble Space Telescope, this stimulating Website is bursting with information and images of everything cosmological and astronomical. The site is aimed squarely at the elementary level and is structured around a number of fully interactive online lessons covering topics such as galaxies, solar systems, comets, black holes and much more.
  
  
• Amusement Park Physics
  Learn about the physical principles behind daredevil rides such as the roller coaster and the free-fall. This site combines an introduction to the basic physics of the rides with some historical notes on the rides themselves.
  
  
• Ask Dr. Universe
  You can ask Dr. Universe almost anything! She'll go to Washington State University's great team of researchers for her information. She'll follow them out to the field, or into the laboratory or library, to find your answers.
  
  
• All Engineering Schools
  All Engineering Schools makes it easy to find the engineering colleges that interest you. Search for engineering schools by location, program type, or specialty. Then read detailed fact sheets on featured engineering colleges, and get in touch with admissions officers by requesting information.
  
  
• Beakman's Electric Motor
  Step-by-step instructions on building your own electric motor with just a few parts.
  
  
• Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
  This terrific site explains aerodynamics to beginners through interactive animations, equations, images, and text.
  
  
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
  Part of an ongoing project, Biographies of Women Mathematicians illustrates the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics.
  
  
• Building Big
  A companion to PBS's five-part miniseries on megastructures, exploring the engineering principles, design challenges, and human stories behind some of the most remarkable achievements in the history of building.
  
  
• Building a Submarine
  How a physics class built their own submarine and got to go for a ride with the Navy.
  
  
• BridgePros
  This site is dedicated to the engineering, history & construction of bridges.
  
  
• Boston University Design Competition
  The Design Competition involves teams of two students, both of whom must be high school freshmen, sophomores, or juniors at the time of the competition. Each team will design and build a vehicle that will, under its own power, climb a sloped ramp, knock over a flag at the top of the ramp, and sustain its position against an opposing vehicle.
  
  
• BEST Inc.
  BEST is a nonprofit, volunteer organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science- and engineering-based robotics competition.
  
  
• Botball Educational Robotics Program
  Botball is a hands-on learning experience in robotics designed to engage students in learning the practical applications of science, technology, engineering and math.
  
  
• Breaking Through: The Creative Engineer
  Explores how creativity — challenging, connecting, visualizing, collaborating, harmonizing, improvising, reorienting and synthesizing — is expressed in engineering. You can also learn about a traveling exhibit that might make the perfect class trip.
  
  
• Celebration of Women in Engineering
  A site of links to educational resources, including academic programs, media, research information, and curriculum and project ideas for teachers and students. Also, find information on mentoring programs, careers, funding, and financial aid.
  
  
• The Christopher Columbus Awards
  Christopher Columbus Awards is a cutting-edge national competition that combines science and technology with community problem-solving in a real-world setting. With the help of an adult coach, middle school students work in teams to identify an issue they care about and use science and technology to develop an innovative solution.
  
  
• Chemicool Periodic Table
  This version gives you information with the click of a mouse and also lets you type in a name or symbol.
  
  
• Citizen Kurchatov
  Find out about the physicist who helped develop the Soviet Union's atomic bomb. This is a companion site to a PBS broadcast.
  
  
• The Computer History Museum
  Are you curious about how the Internet came to be? Maybe you would like to know what the first computer looked like? At this site you'll find online exhibits that cover Internet history and the evolution of the microprocessor. You can also search the center's archive.
  
  
• Discover Engineering
  What does an engineer do? How much does s/he make? Who are some famous engineers? What are different types of engineering? Check out this fun site — even play some games.
  
  
• Destination Imagination
  Teams of up to seven members choose one challenge and spend several months perfecting their "solution" for tournament day. Teams also hone their on-the-spot problem solving skills as they practice coming up with solutions for Instant Challenges — additional challenges that are revealed to the teams only minutes before their presentation time! Thinking on their feet, becoming comfortable with quick decision making, and further developing the team spirit are among the skills that Instant Challenges promote.
  
  
• TinFoil.com
  Tinfoil.com celebrates the cylinder record. You're not familiar with it? No problem, they haven't made them since the 20's.
  
  
• eCYBERMISSION
  eCYBERMISSION is a FREE, web-based science, math and technology competition for students in grades 6 through 9.  Compete for regional and national awards while working to solve problems in your community.
  
  
• Exambot
  Math and physics exam sets: A database of math and physics exam questions, with a customizable exam generator for practice exams.
  
  
• Engineering Girl
  Bright, energetic girls — just like you — from all around the United States and Canada helped the National Academy of Engineering with this site by serving as our Advisory Board. The Engineer Girl Website is part of the NAE's Celebration of Women in Engineering project. This project tries to bring national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to all people at any age, but particularly to women and girls. The Celebration is the first of several projects focusing on gender and diversity in the engineering workforce.
  
  
• ExploreLearning.com
  ExploreLearning.com offers a catalog of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 6-12.
  
  
• Education Center Online
  Offers online degrees, distance learning, and continuing education program information to college and university students, as well as adults who wish to further their education.
  
  
• The Engineering Education Service Center
  A Full-Service Engineering Education Support Center, the EESC provides consulting, publications and workshops and presentations that promote engineering for K-16.
  
  
• Engineering IMPACT Institute
  IMPACT is dedicated to the vision of revival and modernization of the engineering profession by striving to improve the quality of engineers by broadening horizons through education.
  
  
• Engineers Dedicated to a Better Tomorrow
  Engineers Dedicated to a Better Tomorrow is dedicated to making a difference, both in terms of advancing the engineering profession, as well as in helping improve the world through the practice of engineering. The site offers a multitude of links to pre-college resources.
  
  
• Edventures Robotics Challenge (ERC)
  The Edventures Robotics Challenge is an exciting engineering challenge program that can be used throughout the year by all members of the Edventures Learning Network. Designed to complement and enhance other academic challenges and competitions, this program can be used at any time throughout the year to generate enthusiasm, prepare students for problem solving challenges, and create a real-world teamwork scenario for students to experience.
  
  
• ExploraVision
  ExploraVision is a competition for all students in grades K-12. It is designed to encourage students to combine their imagination with their knowledge of science and technology to explore visions of the future. Teams of students select a technology, research how it works and why it was invented, and then project how that technology may change in the future. They must then identify what breakthroughs are required for their vision to become a reality and describe the positive and negative consequences of their technology on society.  The student teams write a paper and draw a series of Web page graphics to describe their idea. Regional winners make a Website and a prototype of their future vision.
  
  
• Fear of Physics
  This site will erase any fear of physics you may have by showing you just how much fun it can be! You will be entertained and educated by the animations and interactive games.
  
  
• FirstFlight
  This visually attractive site explores the Wright brothers' first flight. You can check out the experiments that led to the successful flight.
  
  
• The Futures Channel
  With a digital library of dozens of educational videos spanning topics in science, math, and technology, partnered with correlating classroom activities and problems in “Movie Guides,” this site offers teachers a great way to bring the concepts of engineering, math, and science right into the classroom through a medium today’s students easily identify with.
  
  
• FIRST High School Robotics Competition
  The FIRST Robotics Competition is an annual design competition that brings professionals and young people together in teams to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) inspires students to take a look at further studies and careers in engineering, technology, and science, and motivates them to demand more exposure to these fields and the professionals who are active in them.  School teams recruit business, corporations, college, and university sponsors to actively participate on and support the team during the annual six-week robot design-and-build season.  These exciting nationwide competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines.
  
  
• FIRST LEGO League (FLL)
  FLL is an international program for children created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Company. Each September, FLL announces the annual Challenge, which engages the teams in hands-on robotics design and authentic scientific research. After 8 intense weeks, the FLL season culminates at high-energy, sports-like tournaments. In 2003 over 43,000 children from 14 countries participated in the FLL program.
  
  
• Future City Competition
  The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future. This will be accomplished by fostering engineering skills such as teamwork, communication, and problem solving skills, providing interaction among students, teachers, and engineer mentors, informing the community about the multidisciplines within the engineering profession, inspiring students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. The National Engineers Week Future City Competition requires problem-solving, teamwork, research and presentation skills, practical math and science applications, and computer skills. The competition employs a team-based approach. All members of the team have an important role that is necessary for the completion of the project.
  
  
• Getsmarter.org
  Getsmarter.org is an animated, interactive testing and learning site like no other. Compare your math and science performance against students worldwide. And access learning tools and links to help you “get smarter!”
  
  
• GetTech.org
  GetTech.org offers career information for students and teachers on math, science, and technology careers.
  
  
• The Great Buildings Collection
  Whether you are looking for a particular building, the works of an individual architect or simply a guide to what can be found in which world city, this site is a great starting place. You can search by the name of the building, architect, or city. Individual buildings have pictures and drawings (of course!), information about location, construction system, context, additional resources, and so forth, while Architect listings offer a short biography, a list of major buildings and again, additional resources.
  
  
• Guide Me NACME
  GuideMeNACME provides a road map to engineering. You'll find clear directions (sorry, no shortcuts!), descriptions of important landmarks, and advice on what to do when you come to that fork in the road. You'll meet people, real engineers, to help you along the way. There is also stuff here for those backseat drivers (your family, teachers, and counselors) who may sometimes get on your nerves, but who are important in helping you reach your goals.
  
  
• Girls In Engineering
  The first printing of the NSF publication, "New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering," by Pat McNees, was snapped up in five weeks. The second printing is due this month. The book is free and can be ordered at the NSF (order number - NSF 03-207).
  Or you can download a PDF version here.
  The book makes recommendations on how science and engineering should be taught so as to increase the number of women and minorities in the scientific and engineering workforce. McNees also had an article, "Why Janie Can't Engineer: Raising Girls to Succeed," in the Washington Post, January 6, 2004, Style section.
  
  
• High School Honors Institute (HSHI)
  The High School Honors Institute is an intensive four-day campus residential program that introduces engineering to students with strong academic records who are interested in math and science. High school juniors and seniors have an opportunity to experience college life as an engineering student by attending classes of two engineering majors, participating in curricular and extra-curricular activities, and exploring career opportunities.
  
  
• High School Engineering Institute
  The High School Engineering Institute is a six-day summer residential program designed to encourage students to consider engineering as a career option. Students are exposed to eight disciplines within the field of engineering in order that they may better understand the many career pathways that are available. Participants delve into such areas as biosystems, civil, chemical, biomedical, mechanical, and electrical engineering; computer science; and materials science and mechanics. Students with interests in science and math are especially encouraged to attend. The instructional staff is composed of faculty members and graduate assistants at Michigan State University.
  
  
• Home Experiments - Science is Fun!
  
  
• HowStuffWorks.com
  HowStuffWorks.com is an amazing, award-winning online destination for anyone who wants to know how anything works! Originally started by author and entrepreneur Marshall Brain as an entertaining and fascinating place for people to learn about the world we live in, the site has grown to be one of the top 500 Websites in the United States.  
  
  
• Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
  Organizers say that this program has become one of the week's starring activities as engineers -- particularly women engineers -- are encouraged to make the world of engineering come alive for girls. Since its inauguration in 2001, an estimated 2 million girls have had a chance to experience engineering firsthand.
  
  
• Intel Science Talent Search
  The Intel Science Talent Search (STS) is America's oldest and most highly regarded pre-college science competition. For over 60 years, this competition—often referred to as the "Junior Nobel Prize"—has provided an incentive and an arena for U.S. high school seniors to complete an original research project and have it recognized by a national jury of highly regarded professional scientists. The projects are a result of inquiry-based learning methods designed to nurture critical reasoning skills, to experience science through the use of the scientific method, and to demonstrate how math and science skills are crucial to making sense of today's technological world and making the best decisions for tomorrow. The STS has recognized 2,400 finalists with millions of dollars in scholarships. Over 100 winners of the world's most coveted science and math honors are alumni of the STS, including three National Medal of Science winners, 10 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, two Fields Medallists, and five Nobel Laureates.
  
  
• International Bridge Building Contest
  The construction and testing of model bridges promotes the study and application of fundamental principles physics and also helps high school students develop "hands on" skills through bridge construction. By participating in the Bridge Building Competition students get a flavor of what it is to be an Engineer, designing structures to a set of specifications and then seeing them perform their function. They are also provided with an academically-oriented extracurricular activity which is recognized school wide.
  
  
• The International RoboCup competition
  RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor-fusion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. RoboCup also offers a software platform for research on the software aspects of RoboCup. One of the major application of RoboCup technologies is a search and rescue in large scale disaster. RoboCup initiated RoboCupRescue project to specifically promote research in socially significant issues.
  
  
• Internet Science and Technology Fair
  From October through February of each year, student teams in grades 3-12 apply technology to real-world problems as they participate in the annual Internet Science and Technology Fair. It is hosted by the University of Central Florida's College of Engineering and Computer Science to encourage pre-college students to consider technical career futures. Teams ranging from three to twelve students identify local and national problems and select from a list of National Critical Technologies specific technical applications that may provide actual solutions. From October through February they use only information technology tools to research their solutions while adhering to content guidelines that address national science content standards. Each team is responsible for locating a subject matter expert who becomes their online technical advisor, responding to e-mail inquiries regarding content clarification. Student teams' final research reports are prepared in a Website format and are evaluated during preliminary and national rounds of judging. Top team awards are made the National Medal of Technology Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce and Honorable Mention awards by UCF-CECS.
  
  
• Intel International Science & Engineering Fair
  The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world's largest pre-college science fair, brings together more than 1,200 of the most curious and capable young science pioneers from more than 40 countries to share ideas, showcase cutting-edge science and compete for over $2 million in awards and scholarships. These ISEF science pioneers push the boundaries of science research into uncharted territory. These students are the world's future scientists, actors, musicians, professional athletes, doctors, communicators, entrepreneurs, educators, and business and world leaders.
  
  
• The International Technology Education Association
  The International Technology Education Association focuses on teaching technology, setting standards, and annual conferences and materials for educators.
  
  
• The Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science
  The Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science offers suggestions on how to recruit and encourage girls to be involved in these fields.
  
  
• Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse
  Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse celebrates the best of American ingenuity and inventiveness. In-depth profiles of 35 inventors tell the often surprising stories of the creation of everyday objects, from Kevlar and the personal computer to the pacemaker. This site explores the life and work of five of these intriguing innovators.
  
  
• The Invention Dimension
  A resource for people interested in American invention and innovation, it includes an Invention of the Week Crossword Puzzle.
  
  
• Laugh and learn!
  Explore these JPL and NASA kid sites for out-of-this-world fun and learning.
  
  
• The Learning Matters of Chemistry
  Quicktime movies of molecular models and atomic orbitals, a software library, online chemistry exercises, and more.
  
  
• Leonardo da Vinci Competition
  The Leonardo da Vinci Competition is a contest with a difference: It is the first Canadian national competition that asks questions of an engineering nature — interdisciplinary and challenging — requiring skill in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. The competition is intended for senior students with an interest in engineering and also for senior students who are interested in science and mathematics who have not considered a career in engineering. It provides the opportunity to win scholarships and awards that total $50,000.
  
  
• The MadSci Network
  The MadSci Network made its debut in September 1995 as part of Washington University's Young Scientist Program, a student-run organization dedicated to improving science literacy among K-12 students in St. Louis. Since that time, the site has evolved into an interactive science teaching and community outreach tool, staffed and maintained by volunteer scientists and engineers from around the world. The MadSci Network fields questions in 26 different subjects, covering topics in astronomy, the biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, engineering, and physics. In 1999 alone, more than 900 scientists volunteered their time to answer more than 25,000 questions from K-12 students and the general public.
  
  
• Making the Macintosh
  This electronic archive covers the social history of the Macintosh computer's early development. Through historical photos, interviews, memos, and diagrams, you will learn about counterculture and computing, the early Macintosh, development of the Apple mouse, and more
  
  
• Manufacturing is Cool!
  This site is for students interested in scholarships, summer camps, and other opportunities in manufacturing technology.
  
  
• www.mathblues.com
  MathBlues.com is for high school students and lifelong learners who are frustrated with classroom math—overachievers and underachievers, students who love math and students who hate it. MathBlues.com provides a place for math students of all types to constructively and creatively channel common frustrations. MathBlues.com is updated bi-weekly with math news, problem-solving tips, biographies of famous mathematicians, math trivia, and more.
  
  
• Mathcounts
  MATHCOUNTS is the nationwide math coaching and competition program for middle school students. It promotes student interest in math by making math achievement as challenging, exciting, and prestigious as a school sport. Beginning each fall, thousands of teachers, MATHCOUNTS alumni, and other volunteers coach student mathletes using the free MATHCOUNTS School Handbook. After several months of coaching, registered schools select students to compete in one of 500 local competitions. The top teams and individuals then progress to state competitions, where the top four individuals advance to the National Competition.
  
  
• Math in the Movies
  A Guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics
  
  
• Mega Mathematics
  Mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas.
  
  
• MIT's Hack Gallery
  At MIT, a "hacker" is someone who does some sort of interesting and creative work at a high-intensity level. This applies to anything from writing computer programs to pulling a clever prank that amuses and delights everyone on campus.
  
  
• Museum of Ancient Inventions
  This virtual museum of ancient inventions has photos of replicas of fascinating inventions and tells how these models were made.
  
  
• Must-See Museum
  For hundreds of years, engineers have been finding new ways of using electricity to revolutionize the way we work, play, learn, and communicate. At IEEE Virtual Museum, you will explore the history of these technologies, find out how they work, and learn about some of the people who invented them.
  
  
• NASA LIVE:
  NASA LIVE™ is a series of FREE videoconferencing programs that use NASA's aerospace technology assets to produce exciting and meaningful learning experiences for students, educators, faculty, and adult learners across the nation and the world.
  
  
• NSBE Bridge Magazine:
  NSBE Bridge addresses this need by introducing pre-college kids to all technology has to offer. Interactive experiments, college information and cultural “stuff” make the NSBE Bridge a must-read! NSBE is is dedicated to the academic and professional success of African-American engineering students and professionals.
  To subscribe, send $5 to:
  NSBE Publication
  205 Daingerfield Road
  Alexandria, VA 22314
  
  
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
  Find out who did what and when. An extensive list of inventors linked to biographical information.
  
  


• The National Society of Professional Engineers
  The National Society of Professional Engineers has an easy-reading site for students and teachers. It answers basic questions about engineering, lists activities and programs (Introduce a Girl to Engineering, the Future City), introduces us to famous engineers (Dolby of Dolby Sound and many others), shows how engineers are involved in Flying Turkeys in the Macy's Parade, identifies the top 20 Engineering Achievements, and much more.
  
  
• The National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC)
  JETS has revamped its design competition, in partnership with NISH, to challenge students to design and build technological solutions that empower people with disabilities to enter or advance in the workplace. NISH is a national nonprofit agency whose mission is to create employment opportunities for people with severe disabilities by securing Federal contracts through the Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD) Program.  With the help of an adult mentor — engineer, occupational therapist, scientist, or other technical specialist — teams of high school students will select a scenario to solve, conduct research, and test their ideas.  Participating in the JWOD/JETS National Engineering Design Challenge is a cross-curricular activity — that involves problem solving skills, math, science, research, writing, presentation skills, and drafting/design skills.
  
  
• NSTA Scholarship Competitions
  NSTA and our sponsors reward teachers and students with over $1 million in cash and prizes each year. This page outlines opportunities to receive personal and school recognition.
  
  
• National Engineers Week 2007
  Engineers Week, a formal coalition of more than 75 engineering, professional, and technical societies and more than 50 corporations and government agencies, was founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The program is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers among young students and by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. Engineers Week also raises public understanding and appreciation of engineers' contributions to society. Co-chairs for 2007 are the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and Tyco Electronics. Visit www.eweek.org for complete information on Engineers Week programs.
  
  
• Physicslessons.com
  Devoted to physics and physical science teachers and students.
  
  
  
• Professor Freedman's Math Help
  This site provides information about basic math, algebra, study skills, math anxiety, and learning styles and specifically addresses the needs of the community college adult learner. A student who is frustrated by college math can be helped by identifying his individual learning style and recognizing the instructor's teaching style. This site provides links for students and teachers to information about learning styles, study skills tips, and ways to reduce math anxiety and gives the students access to tutorials, algebra assignments, math videos, and a forum for discussing with the professor a variety of math topics.
  
  
• Robotics: Sensing, Thinking, Acting
  Explore robotics! Learn the history of robotics and find out about the ethical dialogue emerging around modern robotics. You can also check out the studios of several Bay Area "robot artists" and play an online game.
  
  
• RI/SME Robotic Technology and Engineering Challenge
  This annual international competition provides individual students and teams from middle schools, high schools, community colleges, and universities an opportunity to demonstrate their application of classroom knowledge to real-world activities as they participate in a variety of contest categories. Students are invited to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and creative problem-solving techniques through fourteen exciting contests. In addition to the contest events, students and instructors interact and learn from one another as well as engineering professionals. The Robotic Technology and Engineering Challenge is designed to enhance student's overall understanding of the manufacturing process.
  
  
• Robotics System Challenge
  This all day event is organized and hosted by the Computer-Integrated Surgical Student Research Society (CISSRS). The Robotic System Challenges will be a series of robotic competitions held at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. Hundreds of the most gifted middle and high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math from across the state will participate, accompanied by their parents and friends.
  
  
• Science Fairs
  A project of the Eastern Newfoundland Science Fairs Council, this homepage is designed to aid students in the most difficult aspect of their science fair experience; getting an idea.
  
  
• www.the-science-lab.com
  The-Science-Lab.com a comprehensive directory of science related Websites.
  
  
• Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
  A sampling of historic feats and oddities, with photographs, maps, and links.
  
  
• Simscience
  A Website devoted to areas of science where computer simulations are at the forefront of discovery.
  
  
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
  Society of Manufacturing Engineers offers a site with articles on all phases of engineering from automobiles, robotics, and plastics to finishing processes and manufacturing trends. A great site for students and teachers!
  
  
• Space Island Group
  Space Island Group is a leader in developing a plan to design, build, and operate commercial space transportation systems and destinations dedicated to commerce, research, satellite repair, manufacturing, tourism, and many other uses in space. Created by highly talented, experienced and dedicated engineers, aerospace employees, and designers. Space Island Group is currently working with corporations, schools, and experts in their fields to improve aerospace designs and concepts. Using the newest in materials and technology, Space Island Group strives to create safer and lower-cost operations for space commerce and tourism for the 21st century and beyond.
  
  
• Sports Science
  Explore the science of baseball, skateboarding, hockey, and cycling.
  
  
• The Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (SCCC)
  The SCCC is a resource center for those pursuing careers in engineering, mathematics, information technology, and the physical sciences. Its comprehensive education, networking, job hunting, and career planning resources revolve around personal interviews with over 400 individuals who offer candid insight into their career paths.
  
  
• Siemens Westinghouse Competition
  The Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science & Technology recognizes remarkable talent early on, fostering individual growth for high school students who are willing to challenge themselves through science research.  Students whose projects are selected for further competition, are invited to give an oral and poster presentation at one of the six regional events hosted by partner universities. At each of these regional competitions an individual and a team are selected as Regional Winners. These students receive scholarships of $1,000 each as a regional finalist (including team members) and $3,000 each as an individual regional winner. The winning team will receive $6,000 to be divided among team members. Regional winners then receive an invitation to advance to the National Competition in New York City.  In the national competition, students' presentations are judged by research scientists recruited for their specific expertise in the area of research for each project. The top individual and team winners receive additional scholarships of $100,000. Runners up receive scholarships ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.
  
  
• TEAMS
  TEAMS, Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science, encourages high school students to work cooperatively and think critically.  Working in teams of four to eight, students experience real-world engineering challenges and complete for local, state, and national awards.  TEAMS is hosted by more than 100 colleges, universities, and other educational institutions and organizations nationwide each year.
  
  
• Technology Student Association (TSA)
  Imagine an activity so captivating that your students spend hours working on it after school for weeks at a time. That's exactly what happens when TSA members start working on their entries in TSA's competitions. Only TSA members have the opportunity to compete at exciting state conferences and the National conference, one of the highlights for any TSA member. Expert judging by technology educators and industry representatives inspires the best from participants. Members are rewarded not only with medals or trophies but also with memories of the camaraderie and the challenge of a TSA conference.
  
  
• TechXplore
  TechXplore is a high-impact education program and competition that connects teams of students with technology professionals from electronics, telecommunications, and high-tech companies to explore the world of technology.  TechXplore engages the power of the Internet to bring the excitement, innovation, and expertise of the technology industries into classrooms and after-school programs so through TechXplore young people build the science and technology skills they will need to live and work in our increasingly technological world.
  
  
• ThinkQuest Inc.
  ThinkQuest Inc. is a nonprofit organization that offers programs designed to advance education through the use of technology. ThinkQuest was founded by Advanced Network & Services and began offering the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge contest in 1996.
  
  
• TryScience.org
  TryScience is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. Science is exciting, and it's for everyone! That's why TryScience and over 400 science centers worldwide invite you to investigate, discover, and try science yourself. TryScience is brought to you through a partnership between IBM Corp, the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS), the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), and science centers worldwide.
  
  
• T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S.
  T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. is a series of experiments conducted during finals week, 1995, at Rice University. The tests were designed to determine the properties of that incredible food, the Twinkie.
  
  
• Techbridge
  Imagine that there was a technology program designed just for girls. We did and developed the Techbridge program to introduce girls to various applications of technology and to encourage them to consider careers in technical and scientific fields.
  
  
• The Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education
  The Triangle Coalition is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization comprised of more than 100 member organizations with representation from business, education, and scientific and engineering societies. Triangle Coalition’s mission is to bring together the voices of government, business, and education to improve the quality and outcome of mathematics, science, and technology education.
  
  
• US News
  Great information about Engineering Schools - including rankings - and resources for finding a job in engineering once you get out of school. 
  
  
• Visioneering
  Visioneering is a signature National Engineers Week event that brings together students, working engineers, innovators, and noted national figures from a variety of industries and businesses to celebrate the ways that engineering makes a difference in the world around us - and to give students an opportunity to play "engineer for the day."
  
  
• Wacky Patents
  The Wacky Patent of the Month is devoted to recognizing selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions.
  
  
• The Why Files
  The Why Files portrays science as a critical human endeavor conducted by ordinary people. We use news and current events as springboards to explore science, health, environment, and technology. We cover the details and larger issues of science in an effort to show science as a human enterprise and a way of viewing the world. We describe research results, but our overreaching goal is to explain the process, culture, and people that shape science.
  
  
• Women in Engineering Organization
  A Website geared toward several target groups: girls, parents, K-12 teachers, guidance counselors, college women, college faculty, industry professionals, and project directors. Each group has its own section with information specifically targeted for them, but the discussion boards allow all of them to interact with other groups as well as their own, to exchange ideas or ask questions.
  
  
• Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network
  Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network offers summer camps/programs for girls in middle schools.
  
  
• Washington Internships for Students of Engineering
  Each year, 12 to 14 outstanding engineering students are selected to spend ten weeks in a special summer program in Washington, D.C., to learn how government officials make decisions on complex technological issues and how engineers can contribute to legislative and regulatory public-policy decisions. The WISE Program is ranked one of the 100 best internship opportunities in the United States by the Princeton Review. WISE Interns meet with Washington decision makers, learn how technology policy is implemented through legislation and regulation, and prepare a paper on an engineering-related public-policy issue. Interns work under the guidance of a faculty-member-in-residence and are mentored by government relations professionals of WISE-sponsoring societies. Interns receive a stipend of $2,100 for the 10-week program and are housed at George Washington University.
  
  
• ZOOM into Engineering (ZIE)
  A volunteer program where engineers work with students in grades 1-6 and help them develop problem-solving skills. Dozens of organizations host hundreds of ZIE events across the country. Based on the popular PBS television show ZOOM produced by WGBH Boston.
  

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