LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP Wednesday, January 14, 2009 How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision

LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

How to Avoid Disqualification in

ExploraVision

Introducing Today’s Presenter

Diana Celle Holmes Elementary School San Diego, CAGrade Category: K-3 2004 National Winner

Today’s Agenda

1. Introducing the Competition

2. Facts About Disqualification

3. Entry Categories & Entry Rules

4. Required Entry Components

5. Regional & National Judging


How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision


How many of you in the audience have either

participated in or are familiar with ExploraVision?

A. I have participated in ExploraVision

B. I have never participated in ExploraVision

C. I have never participated in ExploraVision but I am familiar with the competition.


What is ExploraVision?

• Competition for all students in grades K-12. FREE to enter!

• Designed for students of all interest, skill & ability levels.

• Team competition: students work in teams of 2-4.

• Each team is guided or led by a teacher/coach and an optional mentor.


• Breakthroughs – Positive and Negative

• Simple vs. Complex Ideas

• Creative Thinking and Problem Solving

• ExploraVision is Much More Than a Contest

1. Introducing the CompetitionPrizes Offered

• Certificate of participation and a small gift for all!

• Honorable Mention Recognition for 500 teams!

• Regional Awards (24 teams):

Toshiba laptop/DVD player and other ExploraVision gifts

• National winners:

Second Place (4 teams): $5,000 US EE Savings Bond for each student.

First Place (4 teams): $10,000 US EE Savings Bond for each student.

A trip to Washington, DC for coaches, mentors, students, and families.


Let’s Pause for Two Questions

from the Audience

2. Facts about Disqualification


2. Facts about DisqualificationMost common errors are:

• Missing items (i.e. Abstract, Bibliography, etc.)

• Improper labeling of components or components not in order.

• Components do NOT follow the style requirements:

• Double-spaced on standard 8 ½” x 11” white paper

• Eleven pages or fewer

• Written in English

• Standard font in 12 point or larger to a maximum of 18 point.

• Participant names and identification of school concealed

• Incorrect number of Web Page Graphics (exactly 5 required) or not using

the proper form.



• Grade categories:

1. Primary Level (Grades K–3)

2. Upper Elementary Level (Grades 4–6)

3. Middle Level (Grades 7–9)

4. High School Level (Grades 10–12)

Notes:• Each category will be judged separately. • Students in a lower grade may be part of a team competing in the

next-higher entry category. However, students may not move down to a lower grade-level entry category.

• A school or individual coach can enter an unlimited number of teams.


• Full time K-12 students

• Attending public, private, or home-school in the US or Canada.

• Students must be no older than 21 years of age.

• NSTA employees, Board Members, ExploraVision Awards judges, and their respective families are not eligible.

• Each student can only be part of one team and is limited to one entry per year.

• Past winners MUST compete with different team members in subsequent years.


• Complete entry must consist of: 1) Entry form 2) Abstract 3) Description 4) Bibliography5) Five Simulated Web Page Graphics

• Do not use report covers, binders, or folders.

• Submit your entry via mail to NSTA or via online at www.exploravision.org

• Complete entries must be received at NSTA headquarters by 5:00 pm EST, Wednesday, January 28, 2009.


http://www.exploravision.org/


1. The ExploraVision competition is divided into four grade

categories

2. A college student can participate in ExploraVision

3. A 3rd grader can work on the same team as a 7th grader

4. Complete entries must be received at NSTA headquarters

by 5:00 pm EST, 1/28/09.

Let’s review: True (T) or False (F)?


from the Audience




1. Entry Form – Must be signed by students and coach

2. Abstract – No more than 150 words that summarize the proposed future technology

3. Description –

• Present Technology – Provide an overview of the present form of the technology.

• History - Research and describe the history of the technology from its inception.

• Future Technology - Describe the team's vision for what this technology will be like in 20 years.


3. Description (continued) – • Breakthroughs - Why doesn't this future technology

exist today? What breakthroughs must occur to bring idea to fruition?

• Design Process - Describe three alternative ideas or features the team considered for this ExploraVision project. Describe the team's design process.

• Consequences - Describe the potential positive and negative consequences of the new technology on society.


4. Bibliography – All sources used in researching the chosen technology should be referenced

5. Five Simulated Web Page Graphics – Communicate and promote the team’s future technology vision; may be hand-drawn or computer-generated and may include text, pictures, photographs and diagrams.


• Style Requirements

• Title on first page of Description

• Typed, double-spaced

• Eleven or fewer pages

• On standard 8 ½” x 11” white paper with 1” margins

• In English

• A standard font in minimum 12 point size or larger up to a maximum 18 point size

Student, coach, mentor, and school names must NOT appear in the Abstract, Description, Bibliography, or Simulated Web Page Graphics for blind judging purposes.


Let’s review: What is the maximum number of pages of the “written description of the project”?


15 pages 10 pages 20 pages

11 pages 8 pages 13 pages

Let’s review: Where should teams include the names of the team members and their school on

the entry form?


On every page of the entry

Only on the title page of the entry

Only on the entry form and not on the

entry itself

Only on the Abstract At the end of the entry

On any random page of the entry

4. Required Entry Components• Visit the ExploraVision web site:

http://www.exploravision.org

Where you will find: Entry materials The entry process Prizes, Rules and FAQ’s Past winners Videos of interviews from teachers and students Sample Entry Kit

http://www.exploravision.org/images/Sample_Entry_Kit.pdf



from the Audience

5. Regional and National Judging


• Regional stage: 6 geographical judging regions

• Judging Criteria• Present technology (10 points) • History (10 points) • Future technology (20 points) • Breakthroughs (15 points) • Design Process (10 points) • Consequences (10 points) • Bibliography (5 points) • Simulated Web page graphics (20 points)

• Creativity, scientific accuracy, communication and feasibility of vision.

• 24 Regional Winner Teams selected, one in each grade-level category in each of the six geographical regions.


• National stage (applies only to Regional Winners): Create a website describing the future technology. Website must include a video.

• Create a prototype of the technology.

• Websites will be judged on creativity, originality and the substance of the promotional message — not on the professional quality of the website.

• Website criteria: o Website must be viewed within 5 minutes.o Website must incorporate at least one original video 1-2 minutes in length. o Website must relate to the original project description. o All team members must contribute to the production of the website. o Website must show the prototype of the proposed future technology in

drawings, photographs or video footage.




from the Audience

Thank you!

Other questions?

Please email [email protected] or call 1-800-EXPLOR-9

ExploraVision TeamMarie Wiggins, Director, Corporate Partnerships, NSTA

Brian Short, ExploraVision Manager, NSTA

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National Science Teachers AssociationDr. Francis Q. Eberle, Executive Director

Zipporah Miller, Associate Executive Director Conferences and Programs

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