From March 11th through 16th, forty top high school scientists have come together in Washington D.C. for the annual Intel Science Talent Search competition. The Intel Science Talent Search is the country’s most prominent science research competition which offers the chance  for high school seniors to present their research to a group of professional scientists. These students are competing for $630K in awards with the winner receiving $100,000 from the Intel Foundation.
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This weekend in New York City, thousands of K-12 students from all five boroughs came together for three days of a student robotics competition. The 10th annual New York City FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC: high school) combines the regional FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC: high school), FIRST LEGO League (FLL: middle school) and Junior FIRST LEGO League (Jr. FLL: elementary school level) in one Mega event. This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the New York City FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). FIRST is a non-profit, volunteer-driven …

Is your teen itching to get behind the wheel? Help them prepare to pass for the DMV permit test with the Driver’s Ed Lite app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app lets you study the DMV’s laws by topics such as accidents, alertness, attitude, documents, hazard awareness, motorway rules, road and traffic signs, and more. The app will even give kids a mock test mode which simulates the real test format. At the end of a test, kids will be able to get …

If you’re a true Hello Kitty fan, than just playing the Hello Kitty games on Nintendo DS isn’t enough. You’ll also want to cover your Nintendo DS and all its accessories in her loveliness! The Hello Kitty Starter Kit 9 in 1 for Nintendo DS and it comes with everything you need for your DS including a whole bunch of pink Hello Kitty branded accessories such as a game pouch, neck strap, ear buds, game case, USB power cable and car charger – all for …

When we were kids, we thought that those little toy cars that you pulled back to go flying ahead, were cutting edge. Nowadays, toy cars have come so sophisticated that kids can draw their own racetrack and the toy car will follow along its path. Doodle Track comes with Doodle Track Cars, and a marker. All you have to do is draw a path for the car and the race car will follow it automatically. That is not bad at all for $14.99 at ThinkGeek.

Hi-Tec Art has developed a way to use LEDs in your own art, without having to use a soldering iron. Just take the LED and stick it anywhere on their rubber mat and the LEDS will light up! You can create your own art, signs, pictures, maps, logos, and even use it to decorate clothing. There are even chess and checker games with LEDs fixed inside each piece so that they each light up. But one of Hi-Tec Art’s most coolest products is the Cube, …

Baby Bidou is an MP3 player and recorder designed especially for infants and toddlers. Instead of using headphones that can potentially harm a little one’s sensitive ears, the bear shaped MP3 player features a built-in speaker. The MP3 player is lightweight, easily hangs on the side of a crib, and it is made from safe, non-toxic plastic and it’s also shock resistant. Parents can set control of the volume limit on the device, and it has a fade feature that allows the music to slowly …

Ekomini Interactive Moneybox is a new high tech piggy bank that connects to your computer to scan and count money as it’s deposited. This cool toy helps kids learn about the fundamentals of spending, saving, sharing, and investing in a fun and interactive way. Using Ekomink, Kids can play at Ekominiville, an educational web-based savings platform where kids can play games, track their savings and learn how to earn, set goals, spend, share and invest.

The new Spy Net Secret Mission Video Watch from Jakks Pacific manages to pack in a hidden video camera and audio system with onboard memory so that kids can record and store over 20 minutes of video, over 4 hours audio evidence or even 2000+ still photos…all displayable on a built-in, full color video screen. Young secret agents can upload their files via the included USB connection to SpyNetHQ.com to analyze their evidence with the lie detector software, video and audio analysis, secret code reader, …

The amount of iPhone apps for kids keeps growing and growing. Aside from fun games designed for kids, there are a lot of educational apps coming out too, giving parents another reason to justify the purchase of an iPod Touch or iPhone for their child. Learning Colors with Vegetables is one such app, that is based on Elizabeth Gordon’s “Mother Earth’s Children” book. Learning Colors with Vegetables combines illustrations with poems as a fun method of teaching children about colors. The Learning Colors with Vegetables …