The 2021 Maine STEM Film Challenge

Join Maine Robotics, the University of Southern Maine, and the Southworth Planetarium for the inaugural Maine STEM Film Challenge!
This new program will have students in the K-12, as well as college, making, editing, and sharing their videos!

There will be awards for best in age; and best overall. Depending on the number of entries, there will be more as well.

Rules and specifics will be announced September 3rd!
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Teams can be 1 to 25 and can be from a school; a family; a homeschool, it doesn't matter.
Of course for the program, all entries must be done by the students and they must be shareable with the MSFC.

DECEMBER 4th, 2021: We'll be holding the 1st Maine STEM Film Festival at the Southworth Planetarium in Portland for all who can come and we'll be show casing all of the films that we can. Additional rooms will be added if there are too many entries to show in one location. All films will also be available for watching online as well.

Join us for our "How Not To Plagiarise" Zoom call with the USM Librarians. Registration and authentication is required to join, don't want too many Zoom bombers in there. They have also developed a website to help you. You can find it HERE.
See the video of the Zoom meeting below:
You can also register your team now. That way you won't miss any important communications. 
10-6-2021 Our "How Not To Plagairise video is now available. Join Sarah Lucchesi from the University of Southern Maine Library to give us insight into what not to do when making our videos.
New video on using OBS Studio to make videos. NOTE: Trouble with sound that I haven't fixed yet, so turn up your volume, sorry.

2021 Overall Maine STEM Film Challenge Winners

Team Hull: What is Honey? won this year's 9-12 grade category as well as the 2021 MSFC Most Creative Video.
The Smashing Titanics won the 2021 Award for Most Accessible STEM Film with good use of both audio and on-screen textual displays.

6-8th Grade Award Winners

1st Place Winners:
​The Butterfly Effect. A short video from the Hungry Hungry Hippos 6-8th grade team. Uses the examples of the NBAs Forgotten Fax and Misty Copelands rise to success in the ballet world.
2nd Place Winners:
Team Mechaniks presented their Computing Computers video about the history of computers from the 4,000 year old abacus to the modern laptops and cell phones.

9-12th Grade Award Winners

1st Place Winners:
What is Honey? Team Hull won this year's 9-12 grade category as well as the 2021 MSFC Most Creative Video.
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2nd Place Winners:
Team Lily presented their Agricultural Destruction by Wildfires video. Covering details from the 2020 fire season as well as reviewing different strategies to minimize the risks to farmers.

K-5th Entires

While we had several K-5 teams registered, none submitted videos for final review.

College Team Entries

No College submissions were received for the 2021 season.
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