How You Can Help

• Create a special award or scholarship
• Sponsor an Intel ISEF finalist
• Sponsor a category award (View our Categories)
• Send a donation (View our Sponsorship Levels)
• Judge or Volunteer at a fair (View our Regional Fair List and Fair Day Info for Intel NWSE)
• Mentor a teacher or student in scientific research

Download the brochure below and send it in today with your donation or request information on judging, volunteering and mentoring with NWSES. You may also make donations securely online through the PSU Foundation. (On the Foundation website, click on the "make a gift online" button. Under Giving Options select "New Gift". Select "Other" from the list and type "NWSES" in the text field, then click continue and follow the instructions.) Email Stephanie Jones at nwsepdx [dot] edu or Linda Mantel at mantelhpdx [dot] edu for more information.

Support Our Record of Success

Team Oregon came home with 15 Grand Awards and 11 Special Awards and scholarships, accumulating $237,000 total, from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held May 10-15, 2009 in Reno, Nevada.

Society for Science and the Public, the organizer of Intel ISEF, estimates that 30% of projects win grand awards. Team Oregon came home with a success rate of 58% in grand awards. Every regional fair that sent students to Intel ISEF as members of Team Oregon was represented among the winners of awards this year.

Support Greater Access

Encouraging girls, economically disadvantaged youth, and underrepresented minorities in the careers of

science, technology, engineering or math is important to NWSES. Last year we served 739 high school and 503 middle school students, exactly half of which were female.We have consistent participation from schools with high percentages of students on free and reduced lunch programs.

Support Our Future

NWSES would like to increase access to programs like grants for equipment and supplies to schools throughout the state. We've also recently started a program to increase participation of underrepresented minorities in math, technology, science and engineering by partnering with the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.

Just $100 could help create a brighter future for us all, by providing opportunity and encouragement to the next generation of great scientific minds in Oregon.

NWSES is a not-for-profit organization administered by the Portland State University Foundation. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law and will go toward supporting the system and its students.