The 2022 Maine STEM Film Challenge
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Join Maine Robotics, the University of Southern Maine, and the Southworth Planetarium for the 2nd annual Maine STEM Film Challenge! This 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. 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 3rd, 2022: We'll be holding the 2nd Maine STEM Film Festival at the Southworth Planetarium in Portland (overflow rooms as needed) 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. Informational Meetings: OCTOBER 4th 3PM - Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: Password: 116981 Registration required OCTOBER 5th, 4PM - Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android. Password: 582725 Registration required You can also give us a call at 207-735-3748 if you have any questions. Join us for our "How Not To Plagiarize" 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. We'll post the link for the October Zoom call below when it is available You can also register your team now. That way you won't miss any important communications.
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2022 Maine STEM Film Challenge Winners
9-12 Grade Winners |
6-8 Grade Winners |
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1ST PLACE: Amazing World of Ants, tied for 1st place in this year's 9-12 category as well as winning the 2022 MSFC Most Creative Video.
1ST PLACE: How Dogs Learn, tied for 1st place in this year's 9-12 category. A good example of using self-video in a production.
2ND PLACE: HTML and CSS and how they work together, was this year's 2nd place winner. Good introduction to how our websites are built.
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1ST PLACE: Better Lives for Fur Foxes, a short film on how we can save foxes from the fur industry.
2ND PLACE: Why 0.9 Repeating equals 1. Taking a look at the math proof for equating 0.9 to 1 and how they are equal.
BEST ACCESSIBLE VIDEO: Gaming Language. This video explores the basic languages and parts used to create digital games.
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2021 Overall Maine STEM Film Challenge Winners
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Team Hull: What is Honey? won this year's 9-12 grade category as well as the 2021 MSFC Most Creative Video.
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The Smashing Titanics won the 2021 Award for Most Accessible STEM Film with good use of both audio and on-screen textual displays.
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6-8th Grade Award Winners1st 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 Winners1st Place Winners:
What is Honey? Team Hull won this year's 9-12 grade category as well as the 2021 MSFC Most Creative Video. 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 EntiresWhile we had several K-5 teams registered, none submitted videos for final review.
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College Team EntriesNo College submissions were received for the 2021 season.
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