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Award Sort ascending Description
YSEA Science Fair Award
Yale Science & Engineering Association
Senior Division Details

The award is intended that this recognition be awarded to the most outstanding 11th grade project exhibiting in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. In extraordinary cases it may be awarded to a 10th or 12th grade project.

USAID Science Champion Award
U.S. Agency for International Development
Senior Division Details

The award recognizes an exceptional individual student or team project exhibiting at your fair that has the potential to make an impact on addressing international development challenges

US Metric Award
US Metric Association
Senior Division Details

The project should involve quantitative measures and should use units of the SI metric system for those measures. The subject of the project should not be the SI system itself.

Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge
Society for Science
Junior Division Details

Middle school competition comparable to ISEF

Theobald Smith Award
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Senior Division Details

Awarded to the most outstanding project in the area of microbiology.

The 20 Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
The Lemelson Foundation
Junior Division Details

This award is given to the project that incorporates technology-based inventions with tested prototypes in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy: healthcare, food/water and agriculture, transportation and mobility, and consumer devices and products.

Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Stockholm International Water Institute
Senior Division Details

This award is given to the project that best exemplifies research in water-related environmental topics.

RICOH Sustainable Development Award
RICOH
Senior Division Details

This award is given to the project that best addresses recycling and sustainability.

 

NOAA's "Taking the Pulse of the Planet" Award
NOAA
Senior Division Details

The award will honor one project (from middle or high school) selected from among all the general award categories whose research emphasizes NOAA’s mission of Science, Service, and Stewardship: "To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts, To share that knowledge and information with others, and To conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources."

NJ Water Environment Association (NJWEA)
NJ Water Environment Association
Senior Division Details

This award is given to the project that best exemplifies research in water-related environmental topics.

Naval Science Award
US Navy Senior Division
Senior Division Details

The award is given to the best projects in any category.

National Geographic Award
National Geographic
Senior Division Details

Cultivating Empathy for the Earth Award is to be given to one project of a student in 9th-12th grade that meets the award criteria:

  • Focus on issues of oceans, land, wildlife, human history & cultures, and human ingenuity
  • Brings geographic concepts and skills to life in new, non-traditional ways
  • Target underrepresented communities
  • Have potential for scale
  • Bring innovation to the space and place
NASA Earth System Science Award
NASA
Senior Division Details

The project should incorporate studies including different spheres of the Earth system, their interactions and change over time. It should include cause-effect relationships based on evidence and demonstrate a clear understanding of how those relationships affect Earth as a system.

Listed below are subcategories from which this type of project might be selected.
Atmospheric Science (AIR): Studies of the Earth’s atmosphere, including air quality and pollution and the processes and effects of the atmosphere on other Earth systems as well as meteorological investigations.
Climate Science (CLI): Studies of Earth’s climate, particularly evidential study of climate change as it relates to Earth’s systems.
Environmental Effects on Ecosystems (ECS): Studies of the impact of environmental changes (natural or as a result of human interaction) on ecosystems, including empirical pollution studies.
Geosciences (GES): Studies of Earth’s land processes, including mineralogy, plate tectonics, volcanism, and sedimentology.
Water Science (WAT): Studies of Earth’s water systems, including water resources, movement, distribution, and water quality.
Other (OTH): Studies that cannot be assigned to one of the above subcategories.

Honorable Mention
Theobald Smith Society
Senior Division Details
Environmental Protection Agency Award
Environmental Protection Agency
Senior Division Details

Awarded to the most outstanding project in the area of environmental sciences.

Earle S. Rommel Communications Award
Mercer Science and Engineering Club
Senior Division Details

Awarded to the project that does the best at communicating the goals, execution and results of the project. One award is given for each division.

Biomedical Science Award
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Senior Division Details

The student’s research must fall within one of these six disciplines:
• Biochemistry
• Biomedical & Molecular Biology
• Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
• Microbiology
• Translational Medical Science

Best Use of Photography
New Jersey Camera & One Hour Photo
Senior Division Details

One award is given to the project that shows the best use of photography. This applies to all divisions.

Association for Women Geoscientists Award
Association for Women Geoscientists
Senior Division Details

The Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) is pleased to provide an Award Certificate to afemale student whose project, in the opinion of the judges, exemplify high standards of innovativeness and scientific excellence in the geosciences. Special consideration should be given to a project that increase the public awareness of the geosciences, illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the geosciences, or promote the sensitivity to the earth as a global system.

APA Outstanding Research
American Psychological Association
Senior Division Details

Awarded to the most outstanding project in the area of psychology.

3rd Place
Theobald Smith Society
Senior Division Details

Exceptional project dealing with microbiology.

2nd Place
Theobald Smith Society
Senior Division Details

Exceptional project dealing with microbiology.

1st Place
Theobald Smith Society
Senior Division Details

Exceptional project dealing with microbiology.