Here's how your budding young scientist could win $25,000!

If your kids are like ours, they've always got some pretty creative solutions to everything from getting out of eating vegetables to extending their bedtime just a little bit longer. (Why do they need so much water at 8pm?). Well, thanks…

Here's how to enter the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge
If your kids are like ours, they've always got some pretty creative solutions to everything from getting out of eating vegetables to extending their bedtime just a little bit longer. (Why do they need so much water at 8pm?). Well, thanks to our sponsor Discovery Education and 3M, they can enter the 2020 Young Scientist Challenge to win $25,000 just by sharing a 1-2 minute video describing their unique solution to an everyday problem. That's right! Entries are now being accepted for the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge, and hooray for this: there are no fancy experiments, or 5-page essays required. All your middle-school aged kids need to do is make a short 1-2 minute video featuring their awesome idea. Heck, if they can do a TikTok video with all those dances, this should be a piece of cake. For more information on how to enter, as well as learn more about the fantastic, free STEM resources available to parents, educators, and students (which you might not have known about), head over to Cool Mom Tech. (LINK POST HERE)

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