ReelLIFE SCIENCE is offering Free Training on Video Editing and Basic Animation for Teachers, Youth Workers & Community Groups

ReelLIFE SCIENCE is a national competition that challenges young people to engage with science, technology, engineering and maths while developing their communication and digital skills. Schools and Youth Groups produce short 1–3 minute films or animations and entries can be submitted any time up to Friday October 11th 2024.

Here's what you need to know about the competition:

Submission Deadline: Entries can be submitted any time up to Friday, October 11th, 2024.

Prizes: The best videos have the opportunity to win €1,000, along with the prestigious honor of being screened at the Galway Science and Technology Festival during Science Week.

Certificates: Additionally, each group that enters receives a certificate acknowledging their participation and efforts.

Through our community partners Foróige, we also offer free online training in video production/animation to youth workers, teachers and adults working with young people.

Places can be booked through the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/cc/reellife-science-3479629

For more information on ReelLIFE SCIENCE, or to arrange additional in-person or online training at a later date, please contact reellifescience.youthgroups@gmail.com.

More information on ReelLIFE SCIENCE

Launched by University of Galway scientists in 2013, more than 26,000 young people have taken part in almost 750 youth groups and schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Previous years’ youth group videos, from building wind generators to tree planting and learning about Covid-19, can be seen at www.youtube.com/ReelLifeScience.

Young people are challenged to research a Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM) topic and communicate it for the public via an entertaining and educational 1-3 minute video/ animation. This can be a brand new topic or something the young people are already passionate about or are working on, e.g. documenting and explaining the science behind an environmental or technological group project.

Videos and animations can be made on smartphones, cameras or tablets, in English or Irish. Winning videos and animations will also be screened for the public at the Galway Science and Technology Festival in University of Galway in November, and all participants will receive a ‘ReelLIFE SCIENCE Challenger’ certificate of participation.

This is an annual competition so if you miss this year's deadline you can enter it for 2025, the theme stays the same and you can send it in as soon as it is completed. 

You will find the online application form, downloadable ‘How-To’ guides and lots more information at www.reellifescience.com.