Be sure to check out this awesome learning opportunity: 

Exploravision Awards. 

Designed for K–12 students of all interest, skill and ability levels, ExploraVision encourages kids to create and explore a vision of future technology by combining their imaginations with the tools of science. All inventions and innovations result from creative thinking and problem solving. That's what ExploraVision is all about.

Since 1992, more than 245,000 students from across the United States and Canada have competed in ExploraVision. But this is much more than a contest. ExploraVision can be the beginning of a lifelong adventure in science, as students develop higher-order thinking skills and learn to think about their role in the future.

To enter ExploraVision, students work in groups of two, three or four — simulating a real research and development (R&D) team. A teacher serves as team coach, and you can also choose an optional mentor.

• Each team selects a technology (or an aspect of a technology) that is present in and relevant to their lives
• First, the team explores what the technology does, how it works, and how, when and why it was invented
• Next, the team imagines and explores what that technology could be like 20 years from now
• Finally, each team prepares an in-depth report that conveys its vision to others.

Check out their website for more details:

http://www.exploravision.org/entry-process/