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For press inquiries or photos of previous challenges, please contact Amy Briskin at ABriskin@aol.com or 212-794-6633
To learn more about the KSC read this 2008-2011 report [PDF: 5.07MB].
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Year 4 Press and Print Materials
Animal Smarts Winner Mason Ganoung in the Wichita Eagle!
Susatainable Packaging Winner Joshua Yi on NJ.com!
The 4th Annual Kids’ Science Challenge Announces Winners: High res [PDF: 2.32MB] Low res [PDF: 542KB]
$3500 Naturalyards School Garden Kit awarded to Wilbur Middle School [Word doc: 29KB].
Year 4 Brochure: High res [PDF: 3.94MB, 2pages] Low res [PDF: 1.47MB, 2 pages]
Year 3 Press and Print Materials
Year 3 Winners Interviewed on NPR's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" by Ira Flatow.
Sensational Sounds Winner Merrie Benjamin in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle.
Sensational Sounds Winner Merrie Benjamin in the San Francisco Examiner.
Magical Microbes Winner Sona Dolasia in the Mill Valley (CA) Herald.
Super Stuff for Sports Winner Peyton Robertson in Hattiesburg (MS) American.
Year 2 Press and Print Materials
Watch Bio-Inspired Design Winner Olivia Donovan-Smith on Fox 29 in Philadelphia.
Download the PDF from Parenting Magazine [PDF: 1.70MB].
Download the PDF from Current Health Magazine [PDF: 1.32MB].
Sports on Mars Winner Tyrone Hutchinson was in the Times of Wayne County, NY.
Tyrone was in the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, NY.
Detective Science Winners Caitlyn Taylor and Mason Wonka were in the TCPalm News of South Florida.
Caitlyn and Mason were in the Vero News of Vero Beach, FL.
Caitlyn and Mason were in the TCPalm News again!
Bio-Inspired Design Winner Olivia Smith Donovan was in the MetroKids.com of Philadelphia, PA and suburbs.
Year 1 Press and Print Materials
Watch KSC winner Lindsay Carnes on the Today Show 9/4!
Download the ABC-KGO Interview Transcipt (June 2, 2009) [PDF: 58KB].
Download the ABC-KGO Interview Transcipt (June 1, 2009) [PDF: 49KB].
Girls Changing Science: Claire Dworsky is a typical 9-year-old, but what she found out on the soccer field is making history.
4th grader presents at national geologists' meeting.
Remember first-year winner Claire Dworsky? She launched the largest study of its kind on the environmental impact of athletic fields using artificial vs. natural turf. This week, she presented her findings to the American Geophysical Union. Here's the poster [PDF: 259KB] she brought along to the conference. Way to go, Claire!
Year One water winner on Scholastic's Super Science Magazine, Oct, 2009
NPR's Science Friday (October 16, 2009).
Download the NPR Weekend Edition Transcript Snippet (May 30, 2009) [PDF: 38KB].
Download the DOGO News Article (May 29, 2009) [PDF: 3MB].
Download the San Francisco Chronicle Article (May 27, 2009) [PDF: 539KB].
Download the SETI press release (May 21, 2009) [PDF: 98KB].
Download the UC-Santa Cruz press release (May 15, 2009) [PDF: 880KB].
Download the Washington Post - Kids Post (April 2, 2009) [PDF: 39KB].
Download the Technology & Learning article (April 1, 2009) [PDF: 109KB].
Year 4 Brochure: High res [PDF: 3.94MB, 2pages] Low res [PDF: 1.47MB, 2 pages]
Kids' Science Challenge Launches Year#4 - October 1, 2011 [PDF: 1.56MB]
Kids' Science Challenge Launches Year#3 - October 1, 2010 [PDF: 321KB]
Kids' Science Challenge Overview Year#3 - October 06, 2010 [PDF: 824KB]
Kids’ Science Challenge Winners Announced - March 31, 2010 [PDF: 448KB]
Kids' Science Challenge Launches Year #2 October 1, 2009 [PDF: 609KB]
Jim Metzner - Biographical Information 2010 [Word doc: 42KB]
Gallery Year 3 Images
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Sensational Sounds Winner At Bart Hopkin's workshop in Point Reyes, CA, May 9, 2011.
left: Merrie Benjamin, KSC producer Jim Metzner and musical instrument builder Bart Hopkin, in Bart's workshop. That's Merrie's prototype with the zebra tape, and behind it is the first stage of Merrie's instrument - the Spritzer Wizard; center: Musical instrument builder Bart Hopkin with Merrie Benjamin and Merrie's final prototype, "the Spritzer Wizard." Note the tubes which recycle water from the cans back to the spray bottles; right: KSC producer Jim Metzner with Merrie Benjamin and Merrie's final prototype, "the Spritzer Wizard." Click on the thumbnails for press ready images.
Gallery Year 2 Images
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Sports on Mars Winner at JPL, May 2010.
From left to right: Tyrone Hutchinson II (KSC Sports on Mars Winner) and Jim Metzner (KSC creator) at JPL; Tyrone Hutchinson II gives a thumbs up as he gets ready to go into a lab at JPL; Kobe Boykins (mechanical engineer), Tyrone Hutchinson II, and Suparna Mukherjee (mechanical engineer) experiment with magnetic Martian soil; an animator, Ashwin Vasavada (planetary scientist), and Tyrone Hutchinson II in the Mars Yard at JPL. Click on the thumbnails for press ready images.
Bio-Inspired Design Winner at UC, Merced in May 2010.
From left to right: Olivia Smith Donovan (KSC Winner) and Christopher Viney (Bio-inspired Design Engineer) at University of California, Merced; Olivia Smith Donovan in a plane; Olivia Smith Donovan and Christopher Viney at University of California, Merced developing Olivia's winning invention. Click on the thumbnails for press ready images.
Detective Science winners visit Syracuse University, April 2010.
From left to right: Mason Wonka, Caitlyn Taylor, (KSC Winners) and Don Siegel (forensic scientist) take water samples; Caitlyn Taylor asks Don Siegel a question; Don Siegel, Caitlyn Taylor, and Mason Wonka look at test results; Mason Wonka in a Forensic Science lab at Syracuse University. Click on the thumbnails for press ready images.
Winners of KSC Year Two!
From left to right: Caitlyn Taylor and Mason Wonka “Team Marine Bustologists” (Detective Science winners) are 6th graders from Storm Grove Middle School in Vero Beach, FL; Olivia Smith Donovan (Bio-Inspired Designs winner) is a 4th grader from Claymont Elementary School in Claymont, DE; Tyrone Hutchinson II (Sports on Mars winner) is a 5th grader from Lyons Elementary School in Lyons, NY. Click on the thumbnails for press ready images.
Winners of the KSC raffle at the Girl Scouts of Greater LA Family Science Festival.
Science toys courtesy of Jakks Pacific.
Sports on Mars images (left to right): Ashwin Vasavada - planetary scientist at JPL - throws a Frisbee in the mars yard; Kobie Boykins mobility systems engineer at JPL; Suparna Mukherjee engineer at JPL.
Detective Science images (left to right): Tyna Gaylord, Syracuse University Project Advance Forensic science teacher, Indian River Central School District; Mo Lupia, Forensics Investigator at the Wallie Howard Center for Forensic Sciences, dusting for fingerprints; Derenique Barnes, a KSC participant, conducts a forensic experiment at Syracuse University; Tamara L. Danner Forensic Chemist, Wallie Howard Center for Forensic Sciences.
Bio-Inspired Design images (left to right): Dr. Bob Full, UC Berkeley Professor, with cockroach and Zoobs; Dr. Christopher Viney, UC Merced professor, with hippo at San Diego Zoo; Dr. Ron Fearing, UC Berkeley Professor Dept. of EECS, with a cockroach-inspired robot.
Gallery Year 1 Images
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The 2008-2009 (year one) Grand Prize Winners
(composite images from the Winners Gallery, PDF/420KB - 1MB):
The 2008-2009 (year one) Grand Prize Winners
(photos of winners or winner's drawing, 300dpi JPEG/304KB - 4.3MB)
Click here for captions (Word doc)
The 2008-2009 (year one) Activity Kit in Action:
Jim Metzner, Producer:
Adina Paytan, Water Ecologist and Students (2008-2009/year one):
Joan Harvey, Flavor Chemist (2008-2009/year one):
Michael Bream of Gravity Boards and Paul Schmitt of CreateAskate (2008-2009/year one):
Lindsay Carnes, Paul Schmitt and James Dyson on the Today Show:
The SETI Institute Team (Jill Tarter, Doug Vakotch, Seth Shostak and Nathalie Cabrol - 2008-2009/year one):
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