Eligibility Updated again
Bump
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Due to a popular demand, we've increased the age limit to 24.
"Eligibility: Individual students in a middle school (junior high school), in a high-school in grades 7 through 12, or undergraduate program, and between the ages of 12 years and 24 years can participate. We encourage parents and teachers to participate, too, but as informal advisors rather than as project directors or overseers."
"Eligibility: Individual students in a middle school (junior high school), in a high-school in grades 7 through 12, or undergraduate program, and between the ages of 12 years and 24 years can participate. We encourage parents and teachers to participate, too, but as informal advisors rather than as project directors or overseers."
Comments
Please don't be discouraged by the updated eligibility.
bpiltin, we've had a whopping three entrants so far along with interest from a few older students. From my perspective I'd certainly get your students involved - not only for the reasons cited by Bump above (and I'll make sure the criteria reflect his statement) - but because these contests often have few entrants. There's a lot of money available for an LED contest and you may be surprised at some of the winning projects when you see them. You might even want to put your students in groups of 2-3 (or 4) if this improves the likelihood of winning projects.
Even better - since universities are impacted by a larger number of students being able to show the "winning contest entry" would certainly help a college application stand out.