ExploraVision Awards

The Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision STEM competition is a perfect virtual and/or in person critical thinking, creative, and collaborative skill learning tool for K-12 students in the U.S and Canada.

Eligibility

All students must meet the following requirements:

• All students must be United States or Canadian citizens and living within the United States or Canada, U.S. Territories, or a Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) school abroad, and enrolled full-time in a public, private, parochial, virtual school, or home school.
• Students must be no older than 21 years of age.
• National Science Teaching Association employees, NSTA board members, ExploraVision judges and their respective families are not eligible to enter the competition.
• Any student who was a regional or national finalist in ExploraVision can only compete in subsequent years with a new team — i.e., with students who have not previously been selected as ExploraVision regional or national finalists.
• Students enter as a team of 2-4 students with a teacher/coach and optional mentor (no individual entries).
• Students may only submit one project per year. However, each teacher/coach can participate in multiple projects per year.

All coaches must meet the following rules:

• A coach must be at least 21 years of age.
• Coaches may be one of the following: a teacher, coach, counselor, leader in a youth organization, or parent/guardian.
• A coach must know at least one student on the team.
• A coach cannot be a judge in the same competition year.

All projects must meet the following rules:

• Any project that has won at ExploraVision’s regional and/or national level may not be resubmitted in future years.
• Any project previously awarded a prize in another competition may not be submitted.
• AI and the tool ChatGPT may be used to brainstorm and/or research your project ideas. These should be used as a tool, but not as the only resource for your project. Any information generated by these resources must be included in the bibliography with the proper citations from the original resources.

Categories

Each team must choose the appropriate category, the oldest student on a team determines the category. Each category will be judged separately, based on the abilities of students in those grades. 

ExploraVision has four categories:

• Primary Level (Grades K – 3)
• Upper Elementary Level (Grades 4 – 6)
• Middle Level (Grades 7 – 9)
• High School Level (Grades 10 – 12)

Project Requirements

Each complete project must consist of:

• A title (50 characters max.)
• An abstract (150 words max.)
• The project description (11 pages max.)
• Bibliography
• Five sample Web pages