The phrase "a science contest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a competition focused on scientific knowledge or skills.
Example: "The school is organizing a science contest to encourage students to explore their interest in various scientific fields."
Alternatives: "a science competition" or "a science challenge".
YouTube and Lenovo, the computer manufacturer, announced on Monday a science contest called SpaceLab for students around the world ages 14 to 18, and it is not quite like any other science contest.
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I formed the GreenShields team, got lucky and won a national science contest, received a $1000 grant, built a homemade wind tunnel and did testing in my garage, and then won a $25,000 grant.
In the 1999 movie "October Sky," the teenage sons of coal mine workers in rural West Virginia build rockets and improbably wind up winning a national science contest.
A Berkeley graduate student at the time, Vollmann said that he submitted it to a political science contest.
When he was in 12th grade, he won first place in an international science contest, besting the future founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.
Troy High School senior Peter Pawlowski of Fullerton won fourth place Tuesday in the Intel Science Talent Search, a prestigious pre-college science contest.
California 17-year-old Angela Zhang took home a $100,000 check from the national Siemens science contest early this year for research that experts say could lead to a potential cure for cancer.
Before 1985, Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., had a decent but undistinguished science curriculum, offering its 1,800 students the standard advanced placement courses and producing a modest annual crop of regional science contest winners.
My son had the musical (he manned the spotlight), a baseball practice and a Science Olympiad contest (with a 6 30 a.m. bus departure).
The show, a part of FOX's "Xploration Station" series, which focuses on STEM education for youth, is hosting a science experiment contest called "Student Astronaut" with a pretty cool prize.
