April 2019: I’m the Teacher Now Student Challenge

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Competition Opens: Monday, April 1^st

Deadline: on or before 8 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, April 30^th

CALLING ALL STUDENTS!!

Did you know that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else? The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) wants you to try it out! We are asking that you create a 1-2 minute original presentation that creatively explains or demonstrates a scientific concept of your choice to a student younger than you. SIX prizes will be awarded—two for the K-5^th grade category, two for the 6-8^th category, and two for the 9-12^th grade category.

Prizes for Elementary School winners:

2 winners will receive an Osmo Creative Kit + an iPad + a case

Prizes for Middle School winners:

2 winners will receive an Apple Pencil + an iPad + a case

Prizes for High School winners:

2 winners will receive an Apple Pencil + an iPad + a case

Details:

A project includes a 1-2 minute presentation of your choice (animation, video, stop-motion, etc…) that explains or demonstrates a scientific concept of your choice to a student younger than you. No slideshow presentations will be accepted.
If your submission is a link (example WeVideo, Vimeo, or Google), please make sure the privacy and sharing settings allow reviewers to access it. If it is not accessible, it may not be scored.
Do not include your last name on your presentation- just first name and state. You can put your personal information on the submission form, but for your privacy when we upload, we will need your presentation without personal identification.
Projects must be submitted on the following form: https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/AprilStudentCompetition.aspx
Projects will be sorted based on grade level. Students in grades K through 5 will be placed in one category, students in grades 6 through 8 will be placed in a second category, and projects of students in grades 9 through 12 will be placed in category three.
Projects will be graded based on a rubric.
Winners will be announced late May.
You must be a student in a U.S., U.S. territory, or DoDEA School.
High school students should teach a concept to a student in middle school, middle school students should teach a concept to a student in elementary school, and elementary school students should teach a concept to a kindergarten or pre-k student.

How to Enter:

To enter the contest, complete the form at https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/AprilStudentCompetition.aspx and attach your file. Make sure you include your parent or guardian’s contact information so we can get their permission to post your file on our website. The contest opens on Monday, April 1, 2019. The deadline to submit is 8:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

If you have any questions, please contact: STEMEd@orau.org

Review or No Review Student Challenge

Competition Opens: Wednesday, May 1^st

Deadline: on or before 8 p.m. Eastern Time, Friday, May 31^st

How do you review for a test? With a game, of course! The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) wants you to try it out! Using your favorite coding software (such as Scratch, hopscotch, swift, or others) to create a review game for you and your peers to prepare for an end of the year test in any subject area. Prizes will be awarded in three grade bands: 3^rd-5^th grade, 6^th-8^th grade, and 9^th-12^th grade.

3^rd-5^th grade winners: Dash Robots

6^th-8^th grade winners: Dash Robots

9^th-12^th grade winners: Cue Robots

Details:
- A review game must be made using a coding program. The game should review concepts from any discipline in order to prepare for the end of year tests. No slideshow presentations will be accepted.
- If your submission is a link, please make sure the privacy and sharing settings allow reviewers to access it. If it is not accessible, it may not be scored.
- Do not include your last name on your presentation- just first name and state. You can put your personal information on the submission form, but for your privacy when we upload, we will need your presentation without personal identification.
- Projects must be submitted on the following form: https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/ReviewOrNoReview.aspx
- Projects will be sorted based on grade level. Students in grades K through 2 will be placed in one category, students in grades 3-5 will be place in a second category, students in grades 6 through 8 will be placed in a third category, and projects of students in grades 9 through 12 will be placed in category four.
- Projects will be graded based on a rubric.
- Winners will be announced late June.
- You must be a student in a U.S., U.S. territory, or DoDEA School.
How to Enter:
- To enter the contest, complete the form at https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/ReviewOrNoReview.aspx and attach your file. Make sure you include your parent or guardian’s contact information so we can get their permission to post your file on our website. The contest opens on Wednesday, April 1, 2019. The deadline to submit is 8:00 p.m. EST on Friday, May 31, 2019.
If you have any questions, please contact: STEMEd@orau.org

Previous contests

While drones can take really interesting photos and are fun to learn to maneuver through the air, did you know that drones have become very common in the workplace? Real Estate agents use them to take photos of property, Amazon is planning to deliver packages with drones, and the NFL uses them to capture video to analyze. So, how are drones being used in the STEM workforce? The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) wants you to research the answer to that question. We are asking that you create a 1-2 minute presentation that discusses at least 3 uses of drones in STEM field. SIX prizes will be awarded—three for the 6-8^th grade category and three for the 9 – 12^th grade category.

Prizes for 6^th – 8^th grade winners:

3 winners will receive a Tello Quadcopter Drone

Prizes for 9^th-12^th grade winners:

3 winners will receive a Tello Quadcopter Drone

If you have any questions, please contact: STEMEd@orau.org
How many times have you come across a problem in your life that could be solved with creating a solution that could be 3D printed? What about a problem in society? Do you think you can design a 3D model that can solve a real-world problem? In November of 2018, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) wanted to know how students would design a 3D model that can solve a problem that is important to them

Winners Grades 6-8:

1^st Place: Jensie C., Illinois, Locker Anti-Jam
2^nd Place: Samuel J., Colorado, Ventus
3^rd Place: Maclean S., Tennessee, Use it! Don’t Lose it!

Winners Grades 9-12:

1^st Place: Kimberly S., Tennessee, Gas Nozzle Lock for School Chemistry Labs
2^nd Place: Alexandra S, Tennessee, Toe Positioner
3^rd Place: William C, Tennessee, Water Bottle Cup Holder
Contest is now closed. Winners will be announced soon!

Rising Kindergarten through 6th grade students!

Do you think you can design a machine? We want to know how you would design a machine that solves a problem important to you! Tell us your important problem and explain the engineering design process of creating your machine, and you could win a prize! TEN prizes will be awarded to students—five for the K-3rd grade category and five for the 4th–6th grade category.

Prizes for the top five K–3rd grade winners: Code-and-Go Mouse

Prizes for the top five 4th-6th grade winners: Sphero

Examples of existing machines:
- Electric Motor
- Scissors
- Wheelbarrow
- Lawn mower
- Typewriter
Harvesting renewable energy is an emerging field with many potential future career opportunities. ORISE wants students to get a small introduction to this field by designing an instrument or device that harvests ambient energy and transforms it into usable energy! Use the engineering design process to guide your creation beginning with identifying a problem and ending with a novel instrument that harvests and transforms energy!

Winners:

7^th-9^th grade winner:
Jake from TN with The Solarnator

10th-12 grade winner:
Kaitlyn Daniels with Chargeable Charms!

Science has long inspired art. Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy extensively before he painted the Mona Lisa? Did you know that Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein was inspired and written during a dreary, cold summer in 1815, when one of the strongest volcanic eruptions – Mount Tambora -- spewed ejecta that blocked out the sun and cooled the atmosphere? Today, countless artists are motivated by innovative technology, limitless natural phenomena, and new scientific discoveries!

April is National Poetry Month, and to honor STEAM’s (STEM + Art) long history, ORISE is sponsoring a science-poetry competition for all current high school students, university students, and all ORISE participants, including post-associate’s, post-bachelor’s, post-master’s, and postdoctoral levels!

Winners:

High School student

1st	Jeanette, 17	How I Feel About Space
2nd	Ivy, 16	Two Voices of STEAM
3rd	Elissa, 9	The World of Genetics
Honorable Mention	Rocco, 16	Singing
Honorable Mention	Matthew, 16	The Fly on the Wall
Honorable Mention	Joanna, 18	The Conscious Mind

University student

1st	Kaila Noland	Vacationing as a Crab
2nd	Ashley Humphrey	Science is a Verb
3rd	Kathleen Gillespie	Biome, Sweet Biome

ORISE Participant

1st	Michaela Cashman	The Ocean Blues
2nd	David Sapiro	The Rusty Bells
3rd	Eric Popczun	Chlorine's Ode
Honorable Mention	Hannah C. Gunderman	The Black Dog
Honorable Mention	Kate Jones	What Does an Earthworm Taste Like?
Honorable Mention	Brandon McAdams	No One is Allowed to Enter but Her

Linda Parsons

Linda Parsons is a poet, playwright and an editor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is the reviews editor at Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, former poetry editor of Now & Then magazine, and has contributed to The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, and Ted Kooser’s syndicated column, American Life in Poetry, among other journals and anthologies. Her fourth poetry collection is This Shaky Earth, and her newest endeavor is writing for The Hammer Ensemble, the social justice wing of Flying Anvil Theatre .

Connie Jordan Green

Connie Jordan Green lives on a farm in Loudon County, Tenn., where, when she isn't gardening, she writes in a small attic study. She is the author of two award-winning novels for young people, The War at Home and Emmy; two poetry chapbooks, Slow Children Playing and Regret Comes to Tea; two poetry collections, Household Inventory, winner of the Brick Road Poetry Press 2013 Award, and most recently, Darwin’s Breath from Iris Press. Green is included in Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (University Press of Kentucky). Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Jennifer Gresham

Jennifer Gresham spent 16 years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force before becoming a high-performance coach and business strategist. She is the former assistant chief scientist of the Human Performance Wing for the Air Force Research Laboratory, where she helped lead a research portfolio spanning the fields of biology, psychology and technology. She is the author of the poetry collection, Diary of a Cell, from Steel Toe Books, and the award-winning blog Everyday Bright. Her poems have been featured in numerous journals, magazines, and radio shows. She currently lives in Seattle, Wash., with her family and two cheeky cats.

Arthur Stewart

Arthur Stewart is an ORISE science education program manager with more than 25 years of research experience in aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology. He also explores science creatively by writing, and has authored six books of science-inspired poetry, including Circle, Turtle, Ashes (2010), The Ghost in the Word (2013), and Elements of Chance (2017). His poems have been published in both scientific venues and in over a dozen literary journals and magazines. In 2013, he was inducted into the East Tennessee Hall of Fame for poetry.

In February, ORISE asked students to follow the engineering design process to design a robot that solves a real-world problem. Congratulations to our grand-prize, runner-up, and judge’s choice winners!

Grand prize winners

Kayden from MD: RoboCare: Customized Healthcare at Your Service

Adithya from TX: The HYDRObot

Runners-up

Kyle from TN: The Easy Opener

DeWayne from TN: Robotic Seeing Eye Dog

Grace from TN: BinkyBot

Christina from TN: Robots: Unsanitary Water in LDCs

Ayush from TX: FRNDBot (not posted)

Cody from TN: The MailBot

Gregory from TN: Personal Health Care Robot

Jalen from TN: I <3 Robots

Hannah, Andrew, and Ethan from TN: Gas-Bot

Judge’s choice

Kashvi from KS: I <3 Robot: Dog & Drone

Allie from TN: Reducing Unnecessary Shelter Deaths
In our November contest, students were encouraged to get creative for a chance to win a Flip Flop stunt drone! Participants in the contest entered by describing a science topic and used technology to present their ideas.

Congratulations to our grand-prize and runner-up winners!

John from Tennessee: Drone Laws

Daniel from Maryland: Airfoil Technology

Evelyn from Maryland: Drones and GPS

Gabe from Tennessee: Drone Project

Kayden from Maryland: Vessel Watch

Jacob from Kansas: How Drones Move

Omar from Tennessee: Aerodynamics of a Flying Drone

William from Kansas: Gyroscopes in Drones

Calvin from Tennessee: Parts of a Drone and How it Works