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Title: Creative Thinking and Problem Solving. ExploraVision is Muc


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LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING _at_ YOUR DESKTOP
How to Avoid Disqualification in ExploraVision
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Introducing Todays Presenter
Diana Celle Holmes Elementary School San Diego,
CA Grade Category K-3 2004 National Winner
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Todays Agenda
  • Introducing the Competition
  • Facts About Disqualification
  • Entry Categories Entry Rules
  • Required Entry Components
  • Regional National Judging

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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4. Required Entry Components
Lets review What is the maximum number of pages
of the written description of the project?
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4. Required Entry Components
Lets review Where should teams include the
names of the team members and their school on the
entry form?
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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

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

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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.

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5. Regional and National Judging
Lets Pause for Two Questions from the Audience
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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
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Elluminate logo
http//www.elluminate.com
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NLC screenshot
http//learningcenter.nsta.org
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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
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