Google Global Science Fair 2011

Google is looking for the brightest young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant to the world today. Participation in this Competition is open to individuals who are full-time students between the ages 13 – 18 and enrolled in a private or public school. Home schooled students between the ages of 13 – 18 are also eligible. Entries can be done by an individual OR a group with up to 3 students. Students (minors) MUST have their parents approval to participate.

Grand Prize:

• An all-expenses paid 10-day vacation to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions!
• A $50,000 Scholarship
• An experience at CERN, Google, LEGO, or Scientific American
• A personalized LEGO Prize

Submission deadline is April 4th, 2011. For more details, submission rules, and what is required per entrant please see google's site: Google Global Science Fair.

Rosetta Stone: Homeschool Latin Program FREE

Rosetta Stone is the fastest way to learn a language and has been the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers for a while — and you can WIN the *all new* version 3 Rosetta Stone Homeschool LATIN program… FOR FREE! This is the first year you can get Latin in the brand new Version III update.

This is a $259 program (and believe me it’s worth every penny!)
This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever! Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress- I love that!), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.

To win this most excellent Latin program copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR link to the contest from your facebook page and/OR email the information to your homeschool support group – Then go to the original page http://Jeneralities.com and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post. And good luck!

SAHMinIL here: JenIG is giving away the program. To enter I had to copy and paste the above paragraphs in a post here on My Adventures into Christian Homeschooling.

Pro-Life Video could equal $1,000 scholarship!

Do your children like making videos? Are they pro-lifers? If so they could enter a video/movie in the Susan B. Anthony List current contest and could WIN a $1,000 scholarship. Complete rules and guidelines can be found here. Good Luck!