RAS Newspaper Competition 2006
This highly successful competition has been run by the Royal Astronomical Society for nine years. It is an excellent opportunity to forge cross-curricular links and to use the Internet and your library to search for material.
RAS Newspaper Competition
This year they invite school students to create a newspaper or write a feature article to discuss and criticise the implications of finding extraterrestrial intelligence.
The Newspaper Competition is open to pupils in two age ranges: 7-11 and 11-14 years.
The Feature Article Competition is open to pupils in two age ranges: 14-16 and 16-19 years.
Groups or committed individuals may enter, but based on past experience, it is strongly recommend that the Newspaper Competition be undertaken by groups of pupils.
