SA1 Awards Ceremony * Tuesday, May 7
SA1 Awards Ceremony * Tuesday, May 7
Congratulations to our winners at the closing of Science Action, Year 1:
- 1st Place Science Mechanic prize: "How is bacterial quorum sensing influenced by microfluidics?" (Team Microfluidics - Zachary Donnell, David Harris, Carey Nadell)
- 2nd Place Science Mechanic prize: "How does a plasma contribute to a fusion reaction?" (Team Plasma - Hee Jae Jang, Maxson Jarecki, Dayton Martindale, Elizabeth Paul)
- Popular Vote Science Mechanic prize: "How do bacteria communicate via quorum sensing?" (Team Quorum Senseis - Gregory Chang, Brian Chen, Sunny Feng, Raghav Gandotra, Lawrence Yu)
- Special Recognition - Most Viral Online Video: "How is electricity extracted from a solar cell?" (Team Think Like an Electron - Yasmin Afsar, Matthew Chang, Harvey Cheng, Daniel Jiang, Omer Malik)
What's Science Action?
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As a team, you and your friends or colleagues learn to storyboard, film, edit & enter your very own short science video in a university-wide competition.
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Detailed direction from writing and science mentors guide you every step of the way.
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Win 1st place ($1,000) or 2nd place ($500) prizes at the SA1 Awards Ceremony in May.
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Explore inspiring research at Princeton on your own terms, and make new connections within the university scientific community.
Take up a camera and show how science touches our daily lives!
Want to communicate what you’re learning in class to a global audience? Ready to explore strange science mysteries beyond the limits of your lectures and labs? Able to decipher the research insights and scientific arguments of the university? Willing to challenge yourself by stepping into your professors’ shoes?
Come aboard and join a Science Action team, where you and your teammates explain in your own words, on film, how one specific piece of scientific knowledge contributes to and influences the way Nature works or the way we build things.
Learn about detailed topics in Climate Science, Fusion Physics, or Principles of Engineering (the more nitty-gritty, the better), discover amazing new insights, and communicate how it all connects to the greater story of how the world influences us, and how we change the world.
Video of the Week
Check out our Science Action advance previews on YouTube. Full videos are coming soon.
Post-script: Have a great summer!
SA wishes a relaxing, energizing and productive summer to all our Actioneer student teams. Congratulations again on a terrific finale to SA1, we're looking forward to posting your final submissions to YouTube shortly.
SA1 signs off with a light-hearted final Video of the Week-- even scientists at an intense high-stakes institution such as NASA let down their hair, once in a awhile. Not so much science-instruction here, more a celebration of the fun and thrill of doing world-class science. The space program's come a long way from the stiff public persona of the Mercury mission days. Enjoy!
