welcome    important info    awards      - category      - special >    rules    tips    contest    entry form    photos    2007 winners	Special awards totaling approximately $8000 in cash will be available to deserving entries in the 2008 science fair. Please note carefully that, in the Junior and Senior divisions, only individual (one-person) entries are eligible for most special awards. (In the Primary and Intermediate divisions, all entries are eligible for special awards.)   Students in grades 5-8 are eligible for awards from the Middle School Program conducted by Society for Science & the Public. This program replaces the popular Young Scientist Challenge formerly conducted by the Discovery Channel. Like its predecessor, this is a nationwide competition. We expect to award and nominate approximately 35 students from grades 5-8 for the first round in this nationwide competition.   Awards for entries in the Junior Division only: Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence (to five entries); $50 plus certificate; presented by Franklin County Teachers Credit Union Elizabeth Blackwell Prize in medicine and public health; $100 plus certificate; presented by Franklin County Medical Society Alliance Jonas B. Salk Prize in medicine and public health; $100 plus certificate; presented by Sunrise Computers   Awards for entries in the Senior Division only: One-year subscription to Scientific American (to 18 entries); presented by Scientific American magazine Yale Science & Engineering Association Award, given to the most outstanding entry by an 11th-grade student in computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, or biochemistry; presented by Yale Science & Engineering Association   Individual entries in the Junior and Senior divisions are eligible for awards in the Distinguished Scientist Series. Each award consists of a framed certificate or plaque and $250 in cash. DSS Award Scientific Area John James Audubon Prize ornithology, ecology, biological field research presented by Conococheague Audubon Society Rachel Carson Prize environment, ecology presented by generous anonymous donor Charles Darwin Prize biology presented by Dr. Robert Goldman and Dr. Doris Armstrong Goldman Thomas Alva Edison Prize invention and innovation presented by Noelker & Hull Associates Dian Fossey Prize zoology, animal behavior presented by Lincoln Way Animal Hospital Robert H. Goddard Prize transportation technology presented by Kiwanis Club of Chambersburg Grace Murray Hopper Prize computer science, information technology presented by Cermak Technologies, Inc. Edwin Powell Hubble Prize astronomy and space science presented by Ludwick Eye Center William James Prize psychology, human and animal behavior presented by Dr. David R. Leaman and Dr. Edward J. Yelinek Anton van Leeuwenhoek Prize microbiology presented by Franklin County Medical Society Charles Lyell Prize geology presented by Valley Quarries Andre Michaux Prize botany presented by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kolva Isaac Newton Prize physics, math presented by Franklin County Teachers Credit Union Louis Pasteur Prize medicine, health presented by Cumberland Valley Family Physicians Linus Pauling Prize chemistry presented by American Chemical Society Allesandro Volta Prize energy research and technology presented by Fulton Center for Sustainable Living Wilbur and Orville Wright Prize engineering presented by York Refrigeration Systems Founders Medal for science in the cause of humankind presented by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Franklin-Fulton Chapter, in honor of the founders of Franklin Science Council: Mr. Charles Beltz, Mr. Woodrow Kadel, Mr. Allison Kohler, Mr. Charles Rahauser, Dr. George Tjiattas Francis Bacon Prize for scientific rigor, knowledge, and original research presented by James P. and Ruth Ann Smith   Additional special awards are given in various divisions, Primary through Senior, by the following sponsors. Their amounts vary, and not all are available to entries in every division. American Chemical Society Chambersburg Dental Associates Chambersburg Imaging Associates Conococheague Audubon Society Cumberland Valley Amateur Radio Club Cumberland Valley Family Physicians Falling Spring Chapter of Trout Unlimited Letterkenny Army Depot Mack Trucks Mont Alto Family Practice Penn State Mont Alto Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education Society of Manufacturing Engineers US Air Force Waynesboro Rotary Club Wilson College        special awards
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