Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement

You probably know that qualifying grades on Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) Exams can lead to advanced placement or college credit. But did you know that AP grades can also lead to scholarships and other recognition?

For Students

If you've earned grades of 5 in AP science and math, you may be eligible for a $2,000–5,000 scholarship.

Scholarships in the amount of $2,000 are awarded to students from each of the 50 states who have earned the greatest number of AP grades of 5 in eight exams. Students are awarded in the state where they attend high school. Each state potentially has two winners, one male and one female. Two additional national winners (one male, one female) are awarded a $5,000 college scholarship. The exams are:

There is no application for this award. Students must be enrolled in high school in spring 2008 when the award is announced. A student must attain a score of 5 on at least two of the exams listed above to qualify. If multiple students have the same number of AP exams with scores of 5, composite exam scores are used as the tiebreaker. High school or home-schooled students in the United States, who have taken any AP Exam during the 2006-07 school year, are eligible for this award. AP Exams taken in the current year (2007-08) are not factored into the scores of the winners.

Students may be awarded a state or national AP award only once, although state winners may be considered for the national award in subsequent years.

For Teachers

This award recognizes AP teachers in math, science, and technology for their exemplary teaching and enthusiastic dedication to AP both inside and outside the classroom. Nominees must have a minimum of five years of teaching experience in math, science, or technology AP courses.

Invitations to nominate teachers for this award are sent to high schools with exemplary AP programs in math, science, and technology. Other factors such as size, private/public, rural/urban and socio-economic background of schools are considered in keeping with the Siemens Foundation's goal to recognize teachers from a broad spectrum of schools. Teachers must complete an application to be considered for this award.

Awards of $1,000 will be given to one AP teacher from each of the 50 states. One teacher will be selected as the Siemens National AP Teacher of the Year and will receive a $5,000 award.

For High Schools

The Foundation honors one high school per state in recognition of the schools that are leading the nation in AP participation and performance in science, math and technology, based on data from all schools participating in AP.

The Advanced Placement Report to the Nation recognizes the high schools with the strongest AP programs in the state, designated by academic discipline. RokStudent uses data primarily from this report to select the high schools and seeks to honor a broad range of schools with regards to factors such as size, private/public, rural/urban, and socio-economic background. The selected high schools will be required to complete an application to be considered for this award.

Grants of $1,000 will be given to one high school in each of the 50 states to be used to support science and math education.