Links

Here are some links we hope you will find useful and interesting.

Science --- Math --- Computer Science --- Other

Science

Siemens Westinghouse Competition
Synopsys Championship
regional science fair
Rules for the Science Bowl
Read them well.
Competition Links
Science Bowl
Wondercup
Jets Team
Science Olympiad
Physics Bowl
Physics Olympiad
Chemistry Olympiad
Biology Olympiad
Scientific American
An excellent source of science news and information.
LiveScience.com
Science, Technology, Health, and Environmental News.
SPACE.com
From satellites to stars - astronomy-related news.
National Geographic
Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888.
HowStuffWorks
Learn how everything works.
Quizlet Practice (you need to set up a Quizlet account)
Astronomy Practice
Earth Science Practice
Chemistry Links
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
American Chemical Society
Chemistry Animations
Chemistry Geek
ChemmyBear
Periodic Table
Periodic Table Posters and Alkali Metal in Water Explosions
Chemistry Review
Online Textbook
Another Online Textbook
Physics Links
Physics to Go
Physics.org
Physics simulations
The Physics Teacher
Online Physics Textbook
HyperPhysics - Online Textbook
Open Yale Course
Astronomy Links
NASA
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Learn astronomy while admiring the beauty and majesty of our universe.
Astronomy Magazine
An excellent magazine about astronomy.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
NSSDC - Lunar and Planetary Science
The Nine Eight Planets
All about our local corner of the universe, the solar system.
Stars and Constellations
A comprehensive resource, including information about most bright stars and all 88 constellations.
The Constellations and Their Stars
Even more information.
Messier Objects and NGC Objects
The most interesting deep-sky objects.
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
A complete list of every extrasolar planet ever discovered.
Extrasolar Visions
Lots of great info and pictures (artistic renderings, but scientifically guided).
The Kepler Mission
A search for habitable, Earth-like planets.
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Meteorites
What they are and how they're classified.
Scale of the Universe Videos
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
--Carl Sagan
Virgo Cluster
Hubble UDF zoom-in
SDSS map galaxies
The Grand Scale of the Universe
The Known Universe
Earth Science Links
U.S. Geological Survey
Glaciology terms
Learn about moraines, eskers, etc. The Science Bowl loves these.
Palaeos
The history of life on Earth.
Mineral Gallery
Learn about different minerals and how they're classified.
Rock Gallery
Learn about different rocks and how they're classified.
The Cloud Atlas
Learn about clouds and how they're classified.
More about clouds
Online Textbook
Biology Links
The Tree of Life
Provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.
Animal Diversity Web
An online database of animal natural history, distribution, and classification.
ZooBank
The online registry for zoological nomenclature.
All About Birds
An online guide to birds and bird watching.
FishBase
More than you ever wanted to know about the fishes of the world.
The Plant List
All known plant species.
The Plant Kingdom
Fungi and more Fungi
Online Textbook

Math

Siemens Westinghouse Competition
American Mathematics Competitions
The Mathematical Association of America.
AMC Practice
Practice Problems
Competition Links
CAML (California Mathematics League)
Mandelbrot Competition
Stanford Math Tournament
Tokutomi Mathematics Contest
Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO)
MathWorld
"The world's most extensive mathematics resource."
Art of Problem Solving
MathLinks

Computer Science

USA Computing Olympiad (USACO)
American Computer Science League (ACSL)

Random Interesting Things

3D Mandelbrot Fractals
Intriguing.
How does this happen?
Volcanic lightning.

Other

Wikipedia
The most reliable source on the web.[citation needed]
But seriously, many of their science articles are actually pretty good.
Science Jokes
Someone once said that the point of an education was so that you could understand more jokes.
xkcd
Why not?