QuikSCience Challenge

The QuikSCience Challenge is competition for teams of middle school and high school students who create projects and portfolios on an ocean science subject. The challenge is a partnership between the USC Wrigley Institute and Quiksilver, Inc., a well-known international producer and distributor of surfing apparel, and the Quiksilver Foundation.

The QuikSCience Challenge has two competitions, one for middle school teams (grades 6-8) and one for high school teams (grades 9-12). Each team creates an ocean science lesson plan, a community service project and a proposed solution to an environmental challenge. The high school teams also create a research project proposal. All teams wrap up their projects with creative presentations to a panel of judges.

This team competition is designed to spark the interest of the students in science and the ocean and to their capacity for leadership. The prizes for the winning teams are expense-paid trips to places near the ocean, and past trips have included trips to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island.

For more information, please visit the QuikSCience Challenge website.