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Elementary Science Olympiad (grades 1-6) - Science Olympiad is a one-day sports-like science competition involving approximately 2,000 Alabama K-8 students each year. Auburn hosts two separate Olympiad events each year – one for middle school students and a separate event for elementary students.

Middle School Science Olympiad (grades 7-9) - Science Olympiad is a one-day sports-like science competition involving approximately 2,000 Alabama K-8 students each year. Auburn hosts two separate Olympiad events each year – one for middle school students and a separate event for elementary students.

Greater Eastern Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair (GEARSEF) (grades 7-12) - GEARSEF is a co-hosted with by COSAM and Auburn's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. This Regional ISEF Fair consists of 19 counties in Southeastern Alabama. The high school exhibitors who place 1st and 2ndare eligible to compete at the Alabama Science and Engineering Fair. In addition, the Region and State fairs name several exhibitors as International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) winners. Each ISEF winner receives an all expense-paid trip to ISEF that annually rotates within the United States. Millions of dollars in scholarships and awards are received at ISEF.

BEST Robotics (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) (grades 6-12) - BEST is a non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to inspire middle and high school students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science- and engineering-based robotics competition. BEST Robotics Inc. (BRI) is a non-profit, volunteer organization based in Dallas, TX. Started in 1993 with 14 competing schools and 221 students, today BEST has over 700 middle and high schools and over 10,000 students participating each fall. There is no fee for schools to compete in BEST.

War Eagle BEST - War Eagle BEST is co-hosted by Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics and Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. War Eagle BEST is open to all public or private schools in Central Alabama. Our mission is to impact K-12 education across Alabama through schools’ participation in War Eagle BEST. By impact, we mean to help prepare today’s youth to become technologically proficient, thus prepared for tomorrow’s workforce.

Tennessee Valley BEST - Tennessee Valley BEST is co-produced by Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics and Samuel Ginn College of Engineering in partnership with Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama. It hosts teams from across North Alabama.

The South’s BEST - The success of the “Alabama BEST” robotics program resulted in the formation of several new BEST competition sites in the south and east, including Bearcat BEST (Cincinnati), Bulldog BEST (Starkville, MS), Georgia BEST (Marietta), Jubilee BEST (Mobile), Music City BEST (Nashville), Tennessee-Valley BEST (Huntsville), Philadelphia BEST, Connecticut BEST (New Britain). In fall of 2003, Auburn University became the southeastern regional championship site, The South’s BEST, for high school and middle school teams from all the above local BEST sites. This program continues to impact thousands of middle and high school students each year.

AU Explore - Beginning in the spring of 2005, COSAM initiated a new science and math open house day called AU Explore. The 2006 event attracted approximately 1800 students in grades 5-12 to the AU campus to participate in dozens of activities including an outdoor science-theme carnival, dozens of make-n-take activity sessions, a science career EXPO, a wildlife pick-n-pet tent with a variety of wild animals, and much more.

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