Winning Categories
We will award points to the top three high school teams in the following categories:
- School team with the number of most active contributors
- School team with the most processing time contributed
- School team with the highest ratio of active contributors to students
If your school wins any prizes, the teacher or administrator who registered the team will be responsible for accepting delivery of the prizes.
Also, within each category, the top three credit-earning students from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place schools will each receive a $100 gift card from one of the stores or services listed below.
Prize Amounts
Winners will be awarded points that can be used to select items from our prize catalogue. Each school can only place in one category. We will accept the highest placement of a school. Final decisions on which category a school wins in, should they place in more than one category, will be at our discretion. Here’s how points will be distributed.
School Team with the Most Active Contributors
- First Place: 1000 points
- Second Place: 500 points
- Third place: 250 points
School team with the most CPU contributed
- First Place: 1000 points
- Second Place: 500 points
- Third place: 250 points
School team with the highest ratio of active contributors to students
- First Place: 1000 points
- Second Place: 500 points
- Third place: 250 points
Prizes for Schools
We are giving away up to $5,250 USD in prizes to schools! Turn in your points for the following items.
| Item | Cost Per Item (in points) |
| SWIFT SW380B 40X-2500X Magnification, Research-Grade Binocular Compound Lab Microscope, Mechanical Stage, with 5.0 mp Camera and Software Windows/Mac Compatible and 100pcs Blank Slides | 350 |
| SWIFT Trinocular Compound Microscope SW350T,40X-2500X Magnification,Siedentopf Head,Research-Grade,Two-Layer Mechanical Stage,1.3mp Camera | 280 |
| SWIFT Microscope SW150,Compound Student Microscope,40X-1000X,Monocular Head,Coarse & Fine Focusing,Dual Illumination,Cordless-Capable with Eyepiece Camera | 130 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit | 100 |
| 1$ Toward a gift card to a local pizza shop | 0.9 |
| $1 Toward a gift card to a science and technology supply store of your choosing | 0.9 |
| $1 Toward a scholarship for your students (we’ll work with you to set this up!) | 0.9 |
You can redeem points for as many of any of these items as you wish.
Final points cost of each item is ultimately dependent on the price and availability of the item at the conclusion of the competition.
Gift Card Options for Students
We are giving away $900 in gift cards to students! The top three students from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place high schools for each category can each select a $100 gift card from the following list:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- Best Buy
- Etsy
- Khan Academy
- Coursera
- Udemy
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Minecraft
- Canva Pro
Help us improve the competition!
This is a pilot run of this competition, so if you think of something that should be added to the catalogue of prizes or list of gift card options, please let us know and we will look into it!