Science Fair 2010
This year Science Fair entries were amazing. The time and effort spent thinking of ideas, videoing and editing the final cut was well worth it as there are some really fun and well put together science videos.
The Task was:
YOU ARE TO MAKE A SHORT FILM ABOUT SCIENCE
Why make films?
To explain something well, you have to understand it. Making a short film focuses your attention on detail and clarity - you have to decide what to put in or leave out, and how to approach a topic to make the most sense of it.
There are 2 tiers of entry - Year 3 to 5 and Years 6 to 8
You can work Individually or in Teams.
So what can you make the films about?? There are two categroies:
- Future – produce a film of less than 3½ mins showing science knowledge or skills being used within a job. (Hint: it doesn’t need to be a science job!)
- Physics – produce a film of less than 2½ mins that explains a principle of physics in an entertaining way to non-scientists (e.g. tell us why you can stick a pin through an inflated balloon without it popping instead of just showing that its possible.)
What are the videos going to look like?? Go to www.planet-scicast.com for some ideas as to what the clips look like but yours needs to be original not a remake of one that is already on the site.
We will also be enetering all the entries into a National competition run by Planet Scicast.
WARNING - be careful, there is a side effect to all this serious stuff. You may find that you are having lots of fun!!
We all thoroughly enjoyed watching all of the entries and it was very difficult to judge, however there had to be a winner and here are the results:
Junior Entries
Winner - Emily Moudiotis and Isobel Gibbs (with 'Electric Lemons')
Runners up were - Libby and Marcie Armstrong (with 'Smashing Bananas') and Guy Know Holmes (with 'Why Hot Air Rises')