Win a trip to visit the SKA site! Explainer Video Challenge, OUR RADIANT UNIVERSE
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Are you fascinated by the mysteries of space and the secrets it holds?
If so, the SKA invite you to participate in the Radio Astronomy Explainer Video Competition! This competition is an opportunity for you to showcase your passion for science and space exploration while helping others understand the fascinating field of radio astronomy in a creative and engaging way.
How do radio waves turn into images of stars, galaxies, and quasars? Are radio telescopes tuning into alien radio stations or extraterrestrial communication? Radio astronomy is a fascinating field, but it is also prone to misconceptions, just like any other area of science. For example, people often think that radio telescopes detect sound waves or that radio waves are like the radio signals we use for communication, that can be “heard”. This competition challenges you to get to grips with the basics of radio astronomy and to demonstrate your understanding by developing a compelling explainer video of no more than 10 minutes.
With limited time, you can decide whether you want to do an overview of the basic concepts of radio astronomy such as electromagnetic spectrum, radio waves, frequencies, and radio frequency interference, or you can home in on the process of transforming radio telescope observations into images through a process known as radio interferometry and data processing. Alternatively, you can focus on the telescope as an instrument, explaining the various components of the telescope.
How to Enter?
Making video content requires a variety of skills including research, writing, conceptualizing content and visuals, filming and presenting. Therefore, we want to encourage collaboration and teamwork. Schools can enter more than one team.
Step 1: Get your team together. Think about people who can bring different skills to the project. Team size is limited to a maximum of 7 participants and 1 supervising teacher.
Step 2: Your teacher needs to register the team here: https://forms.gle/fsawivJwBnxA2Rog9 or scan the QR code to enter.
Step 3: Once your teacher has registered your team, they will receive a submission form that needs to be completed and uploaded with your final video to the link provided.
Step 4: Make your explainer video.
Step 5: Submit your entry by uploading the submission form and video to the link provided.
Terms and Conditions
– The competition is open to all high school learners residing in South Africa.
– Videos must be the original work of the participants.
– If you use content from a third-party, participants are required to obtain any necessary permissions or rights.
– Participants retain the copyright to their videos but grant the competition organisers a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use and share the videos for promotional and educational purposes.
– The decisions of the judges are final and binding in all matters related to this competition. No correspondence or appeals will be entertained.
– The prize will include transport from participants’ school to Carnavon, including airport transfers and flights, if required, as well as ground transport to and from the
– SKAO site. The prize will include accommodation for two nights. All meals will be provided.
– The prize does not include a stipend, gratuities, medical insurance or expenses incurred during the course of the trip, telephone calls, laundry services and other incidental costs. The prize cannot be converted to cash.
– The dates to take up the prize are non-negotiable and if participants are unavailable to travel, they will forfeit the prize during these dates.
– Winners will be notified via email or telephone.
– The organisers will collect participants’ personal information including, but not limited to, your name, likeness, email address, picture and participation in editorial, marketing, and reporting activities. By entering this competition, you consent to the organisers collecting and storing your personal information for the purposes of the competition and associated activities, including, but not limited to, in websites, social media, other media coverage, blogs, photographs and videos.
The deadline for registration is: 10 November 2023.
For more information click on the link https://www.sarao.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SCHOOLS-COMPETITION.pdf