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Engineer Girl! Winners of Essay Contest for Students

How Will Engineers Provide Energy for the Future?

The 2008 awards cycle is now closed to submissions.
Please check back in January 2009.

We use energy in almost everything we do, but if we aren't careful there won't be enough. Engineers have their work cut out for them.

The National Academies Engineer Girl! program invited submissions for its 2008 essay contest Engineering Energy for the Future —an essay of no more than 750 words describing how engineers will provide energy for the future. The contest, open to individual girls and boys, had three age categories:

Ages 8–11, 3rd–5th grade
Ages 12–14, 6th–8th grade
Ages 15–18, 9th–12th grade

First-place winners received a check for $500; second-place entries were awarded $250; third-place entries were awarded $100.

See the results of the 2008 contest at the Engineer Girl! Web site.

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