The 2023 Maine STEM Film Challenge

3/2/2023 UPDATE:
​The 2023 season starts at the end of August 2023. The 2023 rules will be posted at that time. However, they will be substantively the same as the 2022 rules, so please download those if you have any questions.

December 1st or 2nd, 2023 will be the Maine STEM Film Festival and Awards. We will poll the coaches and teams in September to determine if a weekday or weekend day would be better for them.
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.
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.

2022 Maine STEM Film Challenge Winners

9-12 Grade Winners

6-8 Grade Winners
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.
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.

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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