The 2022 Maine STEM Film Challenge

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.
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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. 
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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