competitions

Teenager Taz is a mess in the kitchen, but when her Food Science class enters a competition that her teammates want to win, she must find confidence in her cooking skills.

"Em Katsaro's senior year is not shaping up to be the picture perfect movie she had imagined. Her super-hot leading man is five thousand miles away, her dad just got laid off, and Em can kiss her first-pick university goodbye if she doesn't snag a scholarship. But when Em cinches a spot in the US Youth Change Council competition national round, she has a chance to turn this Skakespearean tragedy into an Academy Award-winning dream. The downside? Kris Lambert--senior class president and her nemesis--is going too. She knows his game way too well--cozy up to your opponents and throw them under the bus on your way to victory. Instead of becoming his next victim, Em decides to turn the tables by putting her acting and flirting skills to work. Unfortunately, as they get close to the final competition and judging, reality and acting start to blur"--Back cover.

Recounts how public school teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer inspired his robotics team to strive for glory as they competed in the FIRST Robotics competition.

Harry Hammer is determined to win a Fintendo game system in the school's dance contest, but first he needs to learn how to dance.

Provides an overview of robotics competitions; offers information on forming a team, robot design and construction, and building a robot; and includes an interview with roboticist Jacob Cohen.

Victoria Torres is not the best math student, so when her older sister, Sofia, captain of their middle school math team, co-opts her to fill in for a team member who quit Vicka is not sure how to feel--she would certainly like to help the team win the conference trophy, but first she must get Sophia to see that it is her aggressive bossiness that is alienating the other team members.

On a whim, Avalon Kelly entered the PhotoReady app's spring break getaway contest to New York City-and won! But right away, this trip of a lifetime isn't turning out as planned. Avalon's best friend isn't one of the winners, which means that not only will Avalon have to venture to the Big Apple by herself, but she will have to share a room with strangers. Just when Avalon is about ready to abandon the trip entirely, one of the fellow contest winners, the cute and mysterious Tate, disappears from the group, and the Room 609 girls must use clues from their photographs if they have any hope of finding him. Will the hunt for Tate and the view of New York City through her camera lens be enough to convince Avalon to stay for the full week?.

When Jasper the dachshund hears about the world's biggest dog sled race in Alaska, he is confident he can win, but he's too little to enter the race, so he sneaks aboard the team to find a way to become a part of the excitement.

Thirteen-year-old Amelie Day loves to bake, so she is thrilled to be invited to compete in the 'Best Teen Baker of the Year' contest, and she is determined not to let her steadily worsening cystic fibrosis get in the way, even if it means lying to her parents, and catching a train to New York on her own--but when her friend is hit by a van trying to follow her, she is devastated.