January 16, 2008

Best Gen-Nano Game Competition announced for campus students

The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) is accepting proposals from students on Purdue's West Lafayette campus interested in designing a storyboard for an interactive K-12 learning activity to be published within one of the learning modules of the generation-nano.org Web site, which aims to excite middle school children about science by teaching them nanotechnology concepts.

The individual or team authors of the three winning storyboards will receive cash awards of up to $300.

Additional prizes will be awarded to authors of activities selected for implementation.

The competition is open to all students on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The deadline for proposal submission is March 15.

Storyboard proposals are accepted from individual participants or teams. The goal of the proposed activity should be to accomplish a well-defined learning objective in one of the suggested topics, including structure and properties of matter, dominant forces and self-assembly; and involve a level of challenge appropriate for middle school children. The activity can either be exploratory or competitive, require user interaction and provide appropriate feedback to the user about his or her efforts.

Detailed rules, guideline documents and competition entry form are available on the competition website: http://www.generation-nano.org/competition.

Faculty are encouraged to forward this announcement to their students.

For more information, email at feedback@generation-nano.org, or go to:
http://www.generation-nano.org/competition

Related Web sites:
* Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) - http://www.ncn.purdue.edu/
* generation-nano.org - http://www.generation-nano.org/