Creative Thinking and Problem Solving. ExploraVision is Muc

1
LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING _at_ YOUR DESKTOP
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
2
Introducing Todays Presenter
Diana Celle Holmes Elementary School San Diego,
CA Grade Category K-3 2004 National Winner
3
Todays Agenda

• Introducing the Competition
• Facts About Disqualification
• Entry Categories Entry Rules
• Required Entry Components
• Regional National Judging

4
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
1. Introducing the Competition
5
1. Introducing the Competition

• How many of you in the audience have either
• participated in or are familiar with
  ExploraVision?
• I have participated in ExploraVision
• I have never participated in ExploraVision
• I have never participated in ExploraVision but I
  am familiar with the competition.

6
1. Introducing 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.

7
1. Introducing the Competition

• Breakthroughs Positive and Negative
• Simple vs. Complex Ideas
• Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
• ExploraVision is Much More Than a Contest

8
1. Introducing the Competition

• Prizes 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.

9
1. Introducing the Competition
Lets Pause for Two Questions from the Audience
10
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
2. Facts about Disqualification
11
2. Facts about Disqualification

• Most 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.

12
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
3. Entry Categories Entry Rules
13
3. Entry Categories Entry Rules

• Grade categories
• Primary Level (Grades K3)
• Upper Elementary Level (Grades 46)
• Middle Level (Grades 79)
• High School Level (Grades 1012)
• 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.

14
3. Entry Categories Entry Rules

• 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.

15
3. Entry Categories Entry Rules

• 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 500 pm EST, Wednesday, January
  28, 2009.

16
3. Entry Categories Entry Rules
Lets review True (T) or False (F)?
17
3. Entry Categories Entry Rules
Lets Pause for Two Questions from the Audience
18
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
4. Required Entry Components
19
4. Required Entry Components

• Entry Form Must be signed by students and coach
  
• Abstract No more than 150 words that summarize
  the proposed future technology
• 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.

20
4. Required Entry Components

• 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.

21
4. Required Entry Components

• Bibliography All sources used in researching
  the chosen technology should be referenced
• Five Simulated Web Page Graphics Communicate
  and promote the teams future technology vision
  may be hand-drawn or computer-generated and may
  include text, pictures, photographs and diagrams.

22
4. Required Entry Components

• 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.

23
4. Required Entry Components
Lets review What is the maximum number of pages
of the written description of the project?
24
4. Required Entry Components
Lets review Where should teams include the
names of the team members and their school on the
entry form?
25
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 FAQs
• Past winners
• Videos of interviews from teachers and students
• Sample Entry Kithttp//www.exploravision.org/imag
  es/Sample_Entry_Kit.pdf

26
4. Required Entry Components
Lets Pause for Two Questions from the Audience
27
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
5. Regional and National Judging
28
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.

29
5. Regional and National Judging

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

30
5. Regional and National Judging
Lets Pause for Two Questions from the Audience
31
Thank you!
Other questions? Please email exploravision_at_nsta.
org or call 1-800-EXPLOR-9 ExploraVision
Team Marie Wiggins, Director, Corporate
Partnerships, NSTA Brian Short, ExploraVision
Manager, NSTA
32
Elluminate logo
http//www.elluminate.com
33
NLC screenshot
http//learningcenter.nsta.org
34
National Science Teachers Association Dr. Francis
Q. Eberle, Executive Director Zipporah Miller,
Associate Executive Director Conferences and
Programs Al Byers, Assistant Executive Director
e-Learning
NSTA Web Seminars Paul Tingler, Director Jeff
Layman, Technical Coordinator
LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING _at_ YOUR DESKTOP