Welcome to the Virtual Science Fair! This is where we invite all Extreme 2008 participating classrooms to submit their deep-sea work (group or individual projects) in one of three categories: Vent Science, Vent Art, and Vent Poetry — with separate competitions for middle school and high school students.
All Vent Science and Vent Art entries will be judged by Chief Scientist Dr. Cary and members of the Extreme 2008 science team when they return from sea. Prizes will be awarded for the best projects in each category. You'll hear more about the Vent Poetry competition from Karen Romano Young, our shipboard education coordinators, once the expedition gets under way, so please be sure to read her Daily Journals. Did your class develop a great science project as a result of Extreme 2008? Did you conduct an experiment, research a neat topic, and report your results in a scientific poster?
See what EXTREME projects have been created for 2008!
- Science Fair Gallery
- Winners
- Art & Science Guidelines
- Poetry Guidelines
Science Fair Gallery
Did your class paint a mural of deep-sea life, host a special deep-sea event at your school, develop an advertisement or musical composition for Extreme 2008, or express thoughts about the deep sea and discovery in poetry? E-mail us digital files of your work or package them up and mail them to us. Each entry must include the information listed in the Guidline Tabs. The deadline for entries is November 25, 2008. Good luck!
Click on the country or state name of each Extreme 2008 participant below to see the projects generated during the expedition.
Costa Rica
Maria del Carmen Espinoza Campos, who is the 2-4 grade teacher at Jose Ricardo Orlich Zamora School in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, sent us these pictures. Terrific work, Jose Ricardo Orlich Zamora School -- thanks for diving in with us!
Massachusetts
Joanne Jarzobski, a teacher at Montessori Middle School of Cape Cod in Falmouth, MA sent us these pictures. Thanks for the entries and fantastic job everybody!
North Dakota
Mrs. Tina Webb, who is the 7-12 grade science teacher at Granville High School in Granville, ND, sent us these pictures of a "Deep Seascape" that her students developed for Extreme 2008. Terrific work, Granville High School -- thanks for diving in with us!
The Granville High School Biology Class
The sophomore Biology class from the Granville High School in Granville, ND, USA is pleased to present our “Deep Seascape”. The class has created a hand-made, 3D version of a vent site. Since we were leading into adaptations, mutations, and evolution, they opted to have a site that had both real and created organisms based on adaptations we have been studying. A book of photos with fact pages was put together to detail all of the organisms in the seascape. This served as a quiz of sorts for students of other classes to test their knowledge on the organisms of the deep sea.
The entire class has enjoyed the opportunity to partake in this deep-sea adventure. Being that our school is literally located just 20 miles to the west of the geographic center of North America, this may be the closest that many of these kids will ever come to the ocean let alone the deep-sea. Thank you for the opportunity! It has been a fantastic ride!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Tina Webb
Granville High School
Granville, ND, USA
Pennsylvania
Ms Kim Eberle-Wang, who teaches 11th and 12th grade Environmental Science at Springside School and Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sent us this original Hydrothermal Vent Song written and performed by Pat Connaghan, 11th grade. Terrific work, Springside School and Chestnut Hill Academy -- You ROCK Pat!
Wisconsin
Ms. Beverly Pierson, who teaches high school Oceanography-Meteorology Classes at Memorial High School in Eau Claire, WI, sent us these pictures of their Deep Sea Mural. Fantastic work everybody, it really gives the impression of going deep underwater. Thanks for sharing it with us!
The Memorial High School Oceanography-Meteorology Class
The Memorial High School Oceanography-Meteorology class created a deep sea mural outside of their classroom. The entire class was assigned a deep sea or hydrothermal vent organism to research and to create a small informational poster. The mural project leaders, painted the hallway outside of our classroom in dark blues/blacks to represent the deep sea. They used the classes’ informational posters to create and paint larger versions of the organisms as well as hydrothermal vents (both a white and a black smoker) and the organisms that live around the vents. The tube worms were created out of white pipe cleaners dipped in red paint and the football fish and the black devil angler fish each have reflected aluminum foil to represent their bioluminescent “lures”.
As you enter the mural hallway it slowly gets colder and darker the farther you move along the hallway. The temperature was totally by accident as we blocked off air flow but it definitely added to the effect.
2008 Science Fair Winners
Did your class paint a mural of deep-sea life, host a special deep-sea event at your school, develop an advertisement or musical composition for Extreme 2008, or express thoughts about the deep sea and discovery in poetry? E-mail us digital files of your work or package them up and mail them to us. Each entry must include the information listed in the Guidline Tabs. The deadline for entries is November 25, 2008. Good luck!
Click on the country or state name of each Extreme 2008 participant below to see the projects generated during the expedition.
Vent Art & Science Guidelines
FOR DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS:
1. Any project photograph (of classroom activities, artwork, etc.) must be saved as a jpg file. If students are shown in photos, please indicate that we have permission to post their photos on the Extreme 2008 web site. Any written essay or report should be submitted as a pdf or MS Word document. Animations or music must be mailed on CD. See postal submissions below.
2. Include a description of the work (no more than one page) and the category you are entering. Please indicate if you are a middle school or high school participant.
3. Include the author(s) of the work: Student/Classroom Name, Teacher Name, School Name, State, and Country.
4. Submit all digital files to Virtual Science Fair. As many entries as possible will be uploaded to the Web site.
FOR POSTAL SUBMISSIONS:
1. Posters, photographs, artwork, animations, music, and written essays and reports may be mailed. Please put any animations or music on CD. Please package your materials well so that they are not damaged in shipping. All materials become property of the University of Delaware and will not be returned.
2. Include a description of the work (no more than one page) and the category you are entering. Please indicate if you are a middle school or high school.
3. Include the author(s) of the work: Student/Classroom Name, Teacher Name, School Name, State, and Country.
4. Mail materials to:
University of Delaware
Tracey Bryant, Associate Director
Office of Communications and Marketing
105 East Main StreetS. Chapel Street
Newark, DE 19716-3530
Attention: Extreme 2008
Vent Poetry Submission Guidlines
Here's a chance to show off the "other" side of your brain! Instructions:
1. One entry per person
2. Must be a student at one of an Extreme 2008 participating schools
3. Choose a topic that is generally related to the Extreme 2008 cruise. The options are many (e.g., hydrothermal vents, microbes, viruses, Pompeii worm, Alvin, ocean exploration, living at sea, sights/sounds, etc.)
4. Save your poem as a Microsoft Word document
5. Set page margins to 1" on all sides
6. Limit poem to 20 lines
7. Include author's name and grade level, teacher's name, school's name, city, state, and country (all in bold font)
8. Must have a title (in bold font)
9. The body of the poem can be formatted as desired by the author -- alignment (i.e., left, centered, right, mixed), spacing in and between lines, capitalization, punctuation, etc.
10. Poems will be judged on originality, creativity, and clarity
11. E-mail your entry as an ATTACHMENT to expeditions@udel.edu
There will be two separate competitions for middle-school students (grades 6-8) and high-school students (grades 9-12). Karen Romano Young, one of our shipboard education coordinators for Extreme 2008, will choose among the first 50 entries (for each group) that she receives between Mon. and Sun. of each week, starting Nov. 30. She will select a 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place winner and post them on the Web site each Mon. for those entries received the week prior. For example, on Mon., Dec. 6, she will post the winners selected from all entries received between the start of the expedition on Tuesday, Nov. 30, and Sun., Dec. 5. At the end of the cruise, as part of the Virtual Science Fair, the grand-prize winner will be chosen from the three weekly winners.
As an example of how to format your entry, we have included an old poem that Letise Houser, last year's shipboard education coordinator, wrote on a research cruise:
Name (Grade): Letise T. Houser (3rd year Ph.D.)
Teacher: Dr. Charles Epifanio
School (City, State): University of Delaware College of Marine Studies (Lewes, DE)
Eyes Eyes watching . . . the sky has eyes And they watch us as we stare back as if In a two-way mirror We admire the blazing sun with its rise and its set We gawk at the full orange moon And the patterns the clouds seem to make in our minds But the whole time . . . Imagine that -- the entire time We are unaware or unbelieving that the sky's rays Pierce more than just our skin They see our souls flirt with the swells of the ocean And lick salty kisses from our lips
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