It’s Elemental
Calling all high-school students!
This fall CHF will launch a national video competition, It’s Elemental, in celebration of the International Year of Chemistry 2011. We are looking for students to create short documentary-style videos of individual elements for an interactive periodic table.
All submissions will be entered in a national competition to select the best individual and team video. A distinguished panel of judges will pick winners, who will join CHF’s Heritage Day celebration in April 2011.
First-prize winners will be invited to attend Heritage Day 2011 in Philadelphia, meet the judges at a special breakfast, and see their videos played during the Othmer Gold Medal ceremony. Travel costs (transportation, hotel, meals) will be covered for filmmaker and chaperone in the individual category and for up to four members of each team (including chaperone) in the team category.
Your vote counts!
Additional prizes will be awarded to videos selected by online viewers and Web visitors.
Our Distinguished Panel of Judges
- Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemist, writer, and professor Adam Rogers, senior editor at Wired magazine and former host of PBS series Wired Science
- Thomas R. Tritton, president and CEO, Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Darryl Williams, program director, National Science Foundation
- Ivan Amato, senior correspondent, special projects, and former managing editor, Chemical & Engineering News
- Michael Gordin, history of science professor, Princeton University, and author of A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table
Additional Details
More information will be available soon. Sign up to receive updates. Information for teachers, including a competition timeline, can be found here.
Our Sponsor
It’s Elemental is supported by a generous grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.