SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS

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AWARDS PROGRAM FOR THE NEW JERSEY SCIENCE LEAGUE

Both students and schools compete for awards. All students who complete 3 of the 4 exams

will receive a certificate of achievement from the Science League. Each year 2500 certificates are

purchased with about 2300 being given out to the students. It would be great to give out all 2500

certificates and have to order more.

All students who complete 3 of the 4 exams will be placed in the plaque competition. Ten percent (10%)

of the students receiving a certificate will be awarded a plaque. Plaques will be awarded based upon

rank from #1 to whatever point 10% of the certificated students have been included. The rank comes

from the sum of the top 3 scores for each student. That means that if 5 students tie at 8^th place in some

testing area by rank, then 5 plaques are given at that position. When 10% of the students in an area have

been given plaques, then no others will be awarded. This results in about 200 to 240 plaques.

Scholarship: Last year the Science League awarded a scholarship resulting from the teachers receiving

the January, February, and March results from the web rather than sending out a mailing by the US

Postal Service. Since every teacher has an email address we can continue the same scholarship program.

The first place students in Biology II, Chemistry II, and Physics II will receive a $200 scholarship to be applied

to a college of their choice. In the event of a tie, then the dropped 4^th score will be used as a tiebreaker.

If a tie continues after the application of the tiebreaker, then the money will be split between the students.

Schools also compete for plaques as well. For each exam the top 2 student scores are summed.

This summed score becomes the team score for that school. All four exams count for each school.

The sum of all four exams will be used in ranking the schools. Schools are ranked from #1 to #10.

Plaques are awarded to schools being in the top 10 not 10%. An exception will be Physics II

and AP Physics C. If less than 50 schools register for these competitions, then only the top 3 teams

will receive plaques.

TESTING DATES FOR THE NEW JERSEY SCIENCE LEAGUE

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008;

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008;

**THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008

Each area may select a date in April, other than the first week, for all schools in the area to take the exam.

No area may take the April exam during the first week of April.