No Boundaries (contest)
No Boundaries is a national competition sponsored by USA Today and NASA. It encourages high school students to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Students may enter individually, or as a group of up to four. Entrants create a project about a career in STEM, which may vary greatly in format. In 2008, the first-place group of four made a PowerPoint presentation called "It's Electric", about electrical engineering. In 2009, the contest was won by four girls who created a website about astrobiology. The group who won the second-place prize in 2009 made a "cookbook" with recipes for how to become a food scientist for NASA; third place that year created a simple home-made yarn-bound storybook. First place winners receive $2000 to split between members of a group, and a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Currently, No Boundaries is out of funds and is not supplying the contest or the prize. Though, some schools still enforce this contest without a prize.
