<p>You people all do fantastic amazing stuff. What neat competitions / awards / otherwise recognizable things can y'all think of for the following interests? (please):
german, latin, writing, compsci
any suggestions as far as polishing these interests would be most helpful. Thank you.</p>
<p>For Writing, the most famous at our high school was the NCTE Achievement in Writing award: <a href="http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student/aa%5B/url%5D">http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student/aa</a>
You have to be selected as one of three per school to compete, I believe.</p>
<p>In German, there's always the National German Test some kids from our school took: <a href="http://www.aatg.org/programs/hsstudentprogs/testing_program/testing_info.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.aatg.org/programs/hsstudentprogs/testing_program/testing_info.html</a></p>
<p>Compsci - I believe the USACO/IOI is very well known: <a href="http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/mathematics/usaco/%5B/url%5D">http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/mathematics/usaco/</a>
Also the National Science Olympiad has an event in Computer Science but you have to be part of a full school team to compete.</p>
<p>sx91, do you know any for science (such as bio, chem)?</p>
<p>USABO - USA Bio Olympiad
USNCO - US Nat'l Chem. Olympiad
USPhO - US Physics Olympiad</p>
<p>Intel, Siemens for general science</p>
<p>great, thanks!</p>
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USABO - USA Bio Olympiad
USNCO - US Nat'l Chem. Olympiad
USPhO - US Physics Olympiad</p>
<p>Intel, Siemens for general science
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Or if you're not absolutely incredible (which those require), you can try do things like Science Bowl and Science Olympiad. They're team events, but maybe your school has one established? Or even better, you can organize a team yourself!</p>
<p>My experience has shown that the USABO qualifying test is not very hard, and in fact the USNCO is VERY easy. There are always practice tests online. Examples:
Past USNCO Local Exams: <a href="http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education%5Cstudent%5Cco01.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\student\co01.html</a>
Past USNCO National Exams: <a href="http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education%5Cstudent%5Cco02.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\student\co02.html</a></p>
<p>USABO site is slow right now but I think it is normally <a href="http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:cxpZDjmi98wJ:www.cee.org/usabo/index.shtml+usabo&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a%5B/url%5D">http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:cxpZDjmi98wJ:www.cee.org/usabo/index.shtml+usabo&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a</a></p>