Science Raps Challenge
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Can you rap science?
This is the question being posed to Irish second-level students in a new competition as part of Science Week 2009!
Science Raps Challenge is a new competition for Science Week Ireland 2009 and is aimed at encouraging young people to express their thoughts about science and technology through rap music.
Students are invited to compose and video a Rap on this year's Science Week theme: "Celebrating Creativity and Innovation" showing how creativity and innovation contribute to science and technology. There are some fantastic prizes to be won and to enter, students simply video their own Science Rap, upload on YouTube and send the link with a completed application form available on http://microbemagic.ucc.ie where competition rules are also found.
The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday, November 6th, 2009. The competition is open to junior and senior cycle secondary school students. Prizes will be awarded for under 16 and over 16 categories.
The competition is organised by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), University College Cork and Teagasc Moorepark, Cork who were inspired by the Large Hadron Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM which has had more than 5 million hits on YouTube!
Young science rapper, Jon Chase was commissioned by the APC to compose a rap to challenge Irish students. Jon is a young researcher in Science Communication at the University of Glamorgan, Wales and holds undergraduate degrees in aerospace engineering, science and science fiction.
The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (http://apc.ucc.ie) is a research centre focussing on gastrointestinal health and is a partnership between UCC, Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre and industry. The APC is one of ten centres of excellence in Ireland funded by the Science Foundation Ireland and dedicated to advancing Ireland’s smart economy through cutting-edge research and development.