Siemens Westinghouse Competition

The Siemens Competition is a science competition funded by the Siemens Foundation, which was administered by the College Board from 1999-2013 and by Discovery Education starting in 2014.

The Siemens Competition is open to high school students who are citizens or permanent residents of the US. Students must be in good standing and attend a

Students submitting an individual project must be enrolled in and attending their last year of high school. Team projects may have two or three members and must be enrolled in and attending high school (9th through 12th grade).

Siemens AG purchased Westinghouse Electric Corporation's power generation unit in 1997, but sponsorship of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (now the Regeneron Science Talent Search) was not part of the deal. When Siemens lost the bidding for the competition to Intel, Siemens decided to create the Siemens Foundation to continue the tradition using the well-known Westinghouse name, calling the new competition the Siemens Westinghouse Competition (SWC) and, later, the Siemens Competition. The first awards were given in 1999.

The competition has the same goals as the old Westinghouse Competition, but there are several added dimensions, most notably awards for team projects and regional awards. The regional finals are held in cooperation with six partner universities: MIT, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Texas at Austin, the University of Notre Dame, and Carnegie Mellon.

2007 was the first year that women won the top prizes in both the individual and team competitions at Siemens. The individual winner was Isha Jain of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the top team winners were Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff of Plainview, New York.

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