Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013 22–26 July 2013 SEAFDEC / AQD's 40th Anniversary, AQD Museum’s Year 20, FishWorld’s Year 13
Page | 1 Rationale of Sci-Art AquaWeek
The SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department supports responsible aquaculture and sustainable development in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. SEAFDEC FishWorld is dedicated to science and environment education of the general public—children, adults, students, teachers, researchers, public officials, tourists, local residents, etc.— particularly about aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, aquaculture and fisheries, conservation, and the aquatic sciences.
Sci-Art AquaWeek seeks to build understanding and appreciation among school children and teachers in Panay of the research and development work of SEAFDEC AQD and the relations between aquatic biodiversity, aquaculture, fisheries, and human nutrition. The understanding is then expressed through contests with various outputs. Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013 focuses on (1) public awareness of SEAFDEC/AQD’s R&D of the past 40 years, and (2) the importance of marine biodiversity to food security, and (2). Five contests are open to all high schools, and four contests to all elementary schools. There is no registration fee.
Events during Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013
Date Day Time Events 22 Jul Mon 8 am–5 pm Biodiversity Lab: “Mollusk diversity around Panay and Guimaras” HS 1–5 pm Powerpoint Seminar: “40 years of aquaculture R&D at SEAFDEC/AQD” HS 23 Jul Tue 8 am–5 pm Painting: “Pagpaanak kag pagpadako sang isda, sugpo, alimango, abalone” HS 1–5 pm Fish Play: “Ang pangabuhi sa punong” HS 24 Jul Wed 8 am–12 nn Bring, Show, and Tell: “Crustaceans for food” ES 3–5 pm Nutrition and Aquaculture Quiz ES 25 Jul Thu 8 am–12 nn Write and Draw a Children’s Story: “Paglaki ko, I want to be a fish farmer” ES 3–5 pm Aquarium Quiz: “Lantawa!” ES 26 Jul Fri 8 am–12 nn Seafood Festival: “Farmed seafood as appetizer, entrée, and dessert” HS 12 nn Anniversary Lunch: FishWorld is 13! 4–5 pm Award Ceremony (for winners and coaches)
Descriptions of the contests and Participation Forms are available from FishWorld, phone (33)-315-5665 and 0921- 559-0824, and on the website www.seafdec.org.ph/fishworld/aquaweek 2013. Sample quizzes and other information materials are also available to schools that ask for them. In keeping with 18 years’ practice, invitation letters and descriptions of contests are sent to the Principals of about 50 schools in Iloilo and Guimaras when classes start in June. Principals choose contestants and coaches as soon as possible. Students, pupils, teachers, and parents work together and do background research, practice drawing and presenting, and make all related preparations for the competitions in July. Principals fill in the Participation Forms with the contestants’ and coaches’ correct names and submit the forms to SEAFDEC FishWorld, 5021 Tigbauan, Iloilo, or fax them to (33)-511-8709 as soon as possible before Friday, 19 July 2013. The FishWorld staff needs lead time to prepare Certificates of Participation, other materials, and logistics. The Philippines is an archipelagic country with a huge marine territory and 7,107 islands surrounded by various marine habitats with an amazing diversity of species -- fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, corals, echinoderms, other invertebrates, as well as seaweeds, seagrasses, mangroves, sea turtles, dolphins, and whales. The country has 90 million consumers of fish, about 50 million residents of coastal barangays, and probably 5 million workers in fisheries, aquaculture, fish trade, and marine transportation. The oceans and marine biodiversity are essential to daily life in the Philippines. How much do our students know of the importance of the oceans and marine biodiversity, the problems besetting them, and the solutions and interventions implemented by government agencies, Page | 2 by universities and research institutions, by people’s organizations, by business, by media? How much love and respect do they have for the oceans and marine biodiversity? FishWorld urges everyone to celebrate the oceans and marine biodiversity in real, concrete, personal ways, every day.
FishWorld urges students and teachers to visit the AQD library and website (www.seafdec.org.ph) and find out what the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department has accomplished in aquaculture research and development over the past 40 years. After all, the key to food security is the responsible harvest and use of wild food species through fisheries and the responsible production of domesticated species through aquaculture (and agriculture). More Filipinos should now take advantage of aquaculture science and current technologies to produce more aquatic products (1) to feed an ever burgeoning national population, (2) to earn foreign exchange, and (3) to conserve and restore aquatic resources.
Schools invited to Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013
The Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013 competitions are open to all school in Panay and Guimaras that like to join but FishWorld sends letter-invitations to the regular participants.
Kinaadman Elementary School (ES) Philippine Science High School WV Nanga ES UP High School in Iloilo Buyuan ES Ramon Avanceña National High School (NHS) Eugenio Torrento ES Parara NHS Tigbauan Central ES Tigbauan NHS Guimbal Central ES Guimbal NHS Oton Central ES Oton NHS Iloilo City Central ES Iloilo NHS Miagao Central ES St Louise de Marillac School, Miag-ao Leganes ES Leganes NHS Sta Barbara ES Sta Barbara NHS Hibao-an ES Dumangas NHS Namocon ES Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, ES, HS Arroyo ES Colegio de San Jose, ES, HS Lapaz Central ES West Visayas State University, Integrated Lab School, ES, HS Pavia Central ES Central Philippine University Development HS Baluarte ES University of Iloilo, HS Rizal ES San Joaquin School of Fisheries Quezon ES Botong-Cabanbanan NHS Molo ES IloiloCity SPED-Integrated School for Exceptional Children Jaro Central ES Kaunlaran Learning Center ES, HS Santo Nino Sur ES Pavia NHS Arevalo ES Tubungan NHS Santo Domingo ES Jordan NHS Nueva Valencia NHS Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013 22 - 26 July 2013 Participation Form for High Schools Please return to SEAFDEC FishWorld by 19 July 2013 (fax (33)-511-8709).
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School: ______Principal: ______Telephone: ______
Biodiversity Lab: “Mollusk diversity around Panay and Guimaras” (22 July, Mon, 8 am–5 pm) Name of two students per school Age Year Teacher-Coach Phone ______
Powerpoint Seminar: “40 years of aquaculture R&D at SEAFDEC/AQD” (22 July, Mon, 1–5 pm) Name of one student per school Age Year Teacher-Coach Phone ______
Painting: “Pagpaanak kag pagpadako sang isda, sugpo, alimango, abalone” (23 July, Tue, 8 am–5 pm) Name of one student per school Age Year Teacher-Coach Phone ______
Fish Play: “Ang pangabuhi sa punong” (23 July, Tue, 1–5 pm) Names of four students per school Age Year Teacher-Coach Phone ______
Seafood Festival: “Farmed seafood as appetizer, entrée, and dessert” (26 July, Fri, 8 am–1 pm)
Names of three students per school Age Year Teacher-Coach Phone ______
Agreements:
1. We, the teachers, understand that we are responsible for the safety of our students during our visits and contest participation at SEAFDEC FishWorld. 2. We will pay the expenses for transporting our students to and from SEAFDEC FishWorld. 3. We will see to it that our students abide by the FishWorld Guidelines for Visitors and do not litter anywhere. Principal's signature ______Date ______
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Biodiversity Lab: “Mollusk diversity around Panay and Guimaras” (22 July, Monday, 8 am–5 pm) Page | 5
This contest is open to teams (each composed of one teacher and two students) from all interested high schools. The main tasks are: (1) do field work and document mollusk diversity in intertidal habitats around Panay and Guimaras, and (2) process and identify specimens for a reference collection of 75 mollusk species for the school museum. Some examples of marine habitats are listed in the attached information sheet. Teams do the following:
Week(s) before 22 July: 1. Choose two or more marine habitats and sampling sites, visit them during day time low tides, and take notes and photos. Find about 75 species of mollusks at the selected sites. Note each species’ microhabitat (exactly where it was found: on sand, mud, rocks, seaweed, seagrass, other animals, etc.). Collect only 1–2 live specimens of each species for processing and identification. Include sandy and rocky beaches and check at the water’s edge and at the high tide debris line. Empty mollusk shells are to be preferably collected (instead of live specimens) if they are still intact (no missing shell structures and diagnostic characters) and still near-perfect in color pattern. Collected specimens must be packed by sampling site and date, each pack carefully labeled by sampling site, locality, date, and time of collection. All the label information must be copied onto subsequent labels for specimens or species taken from the pack—to keep track always of where each specimen was collected. 2. Process mollusk specimens as follows. To remove the animals from shells, boil water in a pot and dunk the specimens for about a minute, enough to blanch the animal in the outer whorls but not retracted into the inner whorls. Remove the flesh with a pin. To make sure that all internal tissues are removed, put the specimens in a bowl of water to allow tissue decay, or in a safe place where ants can get to them. After a few days, the decayed tissues can be shaken out, and the shells can be cleaned and air-dried. To remove mud and attached materials from shells, use a brush, bamboo sticks, blunt knife, or pliers. Very dirty shells may be individually treated with muriatic acid. Prepare full-strength muriatic acid (use Gleam brand—its vapors do not hurt nose and eyes) in a squirt bottle. Keep ready a basin of rinse water. Wear rubber gloves, hold the dirty shell or put it in a bowl by itself, and squirt muriatic acid onto the surfaces that need cleaning, including the inside of the shell. After the dirt comes off, dunk the shell in the rinse water and check for dirt and damage. If the shell is not damaged, repeat squirting acid until all dirt comes off. Do NOT leave shells in acid. Used muriatic acid may be saved in a bowl and reused until it stops bubbling dirt off from shells. Rinse acid-cleaned shells 2–3x and air-dry on newspaper or rags (or sun-dry but for short periods to avoid bleaching of shell colors). 3. If teams collect less than 75 mollusk species from marine habitats, they may purchase the remainder (as many as 25 species only) from shell shops in Iloilo Central Market and at FishWorld SeaStore, but only the specimens that come from Panay and Guimaras. (Note: the FishWorld Curator knows which species can be found in Panay and Guimaras, and which shells are sold in shell shops in Iloilo). 4. Examine and sort collected specimens by similarities and differences (or by class, families, genera, and species). Put sorted shells in separate bags or containers. 5. Buy from Iloilo Plastic Center self-sealing plastic bags of several sizes (100 each of #1, #2, #3, and #4) to hold the clean and dry specimens during processing and for submission and scoring (small bags for small specimens). 6. Identify the collected shells by using authoritative books on mollusks in the Philippines or in the Indo-Pacific, for example: Carpenter KE, Niem VH (eds). 1998. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific, Volume 1. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. (Check the website fao.org for downloadable pdf.) Okutani T (ed). 2000. Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 1173 pp. (Expensive!) Poppe, GT. 2008-2010. Philippine Marine Mollusks, Volumes 1-4. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany. (Copies may be purchased online from ConchBooks; quite expensive). Springsteen FJ, Leobrera FM. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Carfel Seashell Museum, Manila. 377 pp. (This book is out of print.) 7. Visit FishWorld and identify species by means of books, and by comparison with the museum reference collections. Put identified specimens in self-sealing plastic bags with tentative labels with species name, locality, date, and other information. 8. Format, print, and cut 100 specimen labels (on thick white board 220 gsm), each 1”x3” bearing the school and museum name , preferably with logo. Bring these computer-printed labels and fine-tipped pens with permanent ink to FishWorld on contest day. Page | 6 On 22 July, Monday, contest day: 1. Bring to FishWorld the clean and intact (near-perfect) specimens of 75 mollusk species, new self- sealing plastic bags, printed specimen labels, and a transparent plastic canister with cover to contain all specimens to be submitted by the team for scoring. 2. Register at 8 am, and get a copy of the Biodiversity Report with a 2-page Table of Mollusk Species to fill in after the taxonomic work. Occupy a lab table in the Kids’ Activity Room. 3. Continue work on species identification until 75 species have been identified. Use the FishWorld reference collections and taxonomic books. Check and verify your own identification. Put identified specimens in self-sealing plastic bags with tentative labels with species name, locality, date, and other information. 4. Each team may present to the FishWorld Curator as many as 10 species with uncertain identification for verification or advice. The FishWorld Curator will verify and advise between 10 am and 12 noon only. 5. Teams fill out the Biodiversity Report and Table of Mollusk Species as neatly as possible by hand. 6. Teams write out the final specimen labels with complete details for the 75 correctly identified species for the school’s collection. Use fine-tip pens with permanent ink. Specimen catalogue numbers in the labels must correspond to those in the Table of Mollusk Species. 7. Teams submit to the FishWorld Curator the Biodiversity Report and Table of Mollusk Species together with the canister of 75 labeled and bagged species. 8. Teams will be scored as follows (maximum score 200 points): Biodiversity Report (maximum 15 pts): site and date of sampling, description of aquatic habitats (5 pts); sampling method and processing of specimens (5 pts); identification method, taxonomic references used (5 pts) Collection of specimens of 75 species (1 pt per near-perfect, clean, and dry specimen of a species) Table of Mollusk Species (1 pt per species correctly classified to class and family and identified to scientific name) Specimen presentation and labeling with the school or museum name and logo, and scientific names correctly spelled (35 pts)
9. After the contest, teams take their shell collections back to their schools for permanent exhibit.
10. Other notes for the Biodiversity Lab contest:
Teams must score >140 to qualify for prizes. Top three teams get cash prizes: First (P1,500), Second (P1,200), and Third (P1,000). Non-winners with scores >140 will receive P500 to subsidize expenses. Contestants and coaches will receive Certificates of Participation on contest day. Certificates of Merit and cash prizes will be awarded to the winners at 4 pm on Friday, 26 July. Additional information on intertidal habitats to prepare for the Biodiversity Lab
1. Mangrove patches are found in: Dumangas, Iloilo -- several patches along Coastal Road Iloilo River from General Luna Street to Mohon, Oton Batiano River from Oton town to Santo Nino Sur, Arevalo and Calumpang, Molo Page | 7 Anhawan, Oton – beside the bridge Baguingin, Tigbauan – beside the bridge Jordan, Guimaras – Morobuan and Lawi Igang, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras Nogas Island, Anini-y, Antique
2. Seagrass beds are found in: Jordan, Guimaras – Hoskyns after the Roro port; Sitio Lawi Igang, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras Nogas Island, Anini-y, Antique
3. Mudflat Ermita, Dumangas, Iloilo – off Bernardo’s Resort
4. Sandflat Hoskyns, Jordan, Guimaras –after the Roro port
5. Rocky shore and rock overhangs (elevated old coral reefs) Hoskyns, Jordan, Guimaras –after the Roro port Igang, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras Siraan, Anini-y, Antique
6. Sandy and gravelly beaches are found all around Panay; empty shells are deposited at low tide and after storms. 7. Consult tide calendars and find out the days and times of lowest tides. Visit intertidal habitats during daytime low tides, preferably in the early morning or mid afternoon. 8. Wear old clothes and old sneakers, booties, or aqua shoes that will stay on your feet, not get stuck in the mud. Wear a hat (do not carry an umbrella) to keep both hands free for work. 9. Be careful not to slip on the mud, stumble on the roots, or get hit on the head or in the eyes by tree branches. 10. Move quietly and observe. To find live animals, look closely in puddles, at the mud or sand surface, among coral rubble, seagrass blades, or mangrove roots, trunks, branches, and leaves.
11. Examples of the mollusks commonly found in mangrove forests, mudflats, and ponds: Snails: Telescopium telescopium Cerithidea cingulata Cerithidea rhizophorarum Terebralia sulcata Cassidula mustelina Batillaria multiformis Chicoreus capucinus Littoraria scabra Nerita planospira Clams: Polymesoda expansa Scapharca cornea Anadara antiquata Dosinia troscheli Pistris truncata Pharella javanica Oysters: Isognomon ephippium Crassostrea iredalei Saccostrea cucullata Planostrea pestigris Pinna bicolor Alectryonella plicata
12. Examples of mollusks commonly found in seagrass beds and sandflats Snails: Cypraea annulus Natica gualteriana Chicoreus bruneus Morula musiva Conus coronatus Nerita undata Clypeomorus bifasciata Pyrene scripta Strombus luhuanus Clams: Trachycardium rugosum Gafrarium tumidum Katelysia hiantina Oysters: Malleus malleus Atrina vexillum Spondylus squamosus 13. Mollusks commonly found on beaches: Strombus urceus, Donax cuneatus, Scapharca pilula, Turritella terebra
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Powerpoint Seminar: “40 years of aquaculture R&D at SEAFDEC/AQD” (22 July, Monday, 1–5 pm) Page | 9
This contest is open to teams (each composed of a student-presentor and a teacher-coach) from all interested high schools. The main tasks are: (1) library and website (www.seafdec.org.ph) research to find out what the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department has accomplished in aquaculture research and development from 1973 to 2013; and (2) field work to document either a hatchery, nursery, growout farm, or other aquaculture business (either fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, etc.) and determine the contribution of SEAFDEC/AQD to its operation and success. For this competition, the teams have to do the following:
Weeks before 22 July: 1. Read up on the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department’s accomplishments in aquaculture research and development during the past 40 years. The voluminous contents of the website (www.seafdec.org.ph) may not be copy-pasted but may be ‘digested then regurgitated’ and made one’s own take. Deduce a science journalist’s story (truthful, objective) about the importance of SEAFDEC/AQD to aquaculture development and food security in the Philippines. 2. Teams may interview SEAFDEC/AQD scientists and researchers (but not the FishWorld Curator). 3. Find and visit 1-2 local aquaculture enterprises (hatchery, nursery, growout farm, market, or related business) in Panay and Guimaras (but NOT the SEAFDEC/AQD stations in Tigbauan, Dumangas, and Igang). Talk to the owners, operators, and technicians about any interaction they have had with SEAFDEC/AQD. Document the aquaculture enterprise, the farmed species, and the interviews with key informants. Take plenty of notes and illustrative, critical, and clear photographs. 4. Write the text of a 20-minute seminar that presents the key findings of the study. Be concise but specific. 5. Choose the 10-15 best photographs from the study to illustrate the main points of the seminar. 6. Prepare a very visual (NOT text-heavy) MS Powerpoint seminar of 20 slides to include: title and team members (1 slide); rationale and objectives (1 slide); methods of study (1 slide); text and graphics from the library and internet work (8 slides); text and photographs from the field work and interviews (8 slides); discussion of the relation between SEAFDEC/AQD and food security (1 slide) 7. The student-presentor practices the 20-minute delivery of the Powerpoint seminar; the teacher critiques.
On 22July, Monday afternoon: 1. Bring to FishWorld the Powerpoint file in a USB removable disk. 2. Register at 1 pm, submit the Powerpoint file to the FishWorld staff, and get a team number indicating the order of presentations. 3. The student-presentor must speak like a knowledgeable researcher or journalist, and answer questions. 4. The seminar will be judged according to the following criteria: Informative title and clear rationale, objectives, and methods of the study (10 pts); Elucidation of SEAFDEC/AQD’s R&D based on library and website research (25 pts); Description of a real-life aquaculture enterprise and AQD’s role in it, if any (25 pts); Quality of slides, photographs, and graphics (20 pts); Speaking and teaching ability of student-presentor, response to questions (20 pts)
5. Other notes for the contest: Judges: AQD Scientists and Information Specialists Seminars must score >70 points to qualify for prizes. The top three seminars with scores >70 win cash prizes: First (P1,500), Second (P1,200), Third (P1,000). Non-winners with scores >70 will receive P500 to subsidize expenses for research. Contestants and coaches will receive Certificates of Participation on contest day. Certificates of Merit and cash prizes will be awarded to the winners at 4 pm on Friday, 26 July.
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Painting: “Pagpaanak kag pagpadako sang isda, pasayan, alimango, abalone, atbp.” (23 July, Tuesday, 8 am –5 pm) Page | 11
This contest is open to teams (each of a student-painter and a teacher-coach) from all interested high schools. The main tasks are: (1) to know the phases of the aquaculture production cycle (hatchery, nursery, grow-out, and marketing) for different fishes, crustaceans, and mollusks; and (2) paint in full-color one such aquaculture cycle for a selected species or group of species. For this competition, the teams have to do the following:
Weeks before 23 July: 1. Do background research about aquaculture in the Philippines, particularly the different species produced for domestic consumption and foreign exchange. 2. Select one farmed species or group of species and find out how it is bred, reared in the hatchery and nursery, grown though a farm (pond, pen, cage, tank?), where (fresh, brackish, or sea water?), how much of it is produced nationwide in terms of tonnage and peso value, and how it is marketed and enjoyed by people. 3. Study the actual body shapes and structures and the fresh live colors of the species to be drawn. Find out how the species changes in morphology as it goes through its life cycle in captivity. Learn to paint the species near accurately in the scientific and artistic way (e.g., milkfish should be painted like real milkfish, not some generic or artsy fish). 4. Prepare a draft lay-out of the painting to show the various phases of the production cycle in the best possible way, including the phases of the life cycle of the species of interest. 5. Paintings will be executed on an illustration board 20” x 30” (provided by FishWorld) with any coloring media (latex colors, oil tinting colors, water color, pastel, crayon, etc. (to be brought by the student-painter).
On 23 July, morning: 1. Bring all needed art and coloring materials to FishWorld. 2. Register at 8 am and get from the FishWorld staff a team number for the painting. 3. The student-painters work in the Kids Room and in the Aquaculture Hall. Coaches help only in the preparations, NOT in the final execution of the painting. 4. Contestants are allowed 8 hours to paint their entries, then they submit it with a title and a one-sentence caption. 5. The painting may NOT have any theme, title, or message written on it. The painter will have to erase all writing. 6. Paintings will be judged according to the following criteria: Research done and sufficient understanding of aquaculture production in the Philippines (20%); Detailed and accurate depiction of farmed species at different life stages: adults (10 pts), eggs and larvae (10 pts), juveniles (10 pts); Detailed and accurate depiction of the phases of aquaculture production: hatchery (10 pts), nursery (10 pts), growout (10 pts) Style, color, and visual impact of the painting (20%)
7. Other notes for the painting contest: Judges: AQD aquaculture specialists and artists. Paintings must score 70 points to be considered for prizes. Top three scorers get prizes: First (P1,500), Second (P1,200), and Third (P1,000). Non-winners with scores >70 will receive P500 for finished paintings. Contestants and coaches will receive Certificates of Participation on contest day. Certificates of Merit and cash prizes will be awarded to the winners at 4 pm on Friday, 26 July. Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013 Description of Contests for High Schools
Fish Play: “Ang pangabuhi sa punong”” (23 July, Tuesday, 1–5 pm) Page | 12
This contest is open to teams (each composed of four students and one teacher) from all interested high schools. Teams have three tasks: (1) do field work and interviews at an operational punong or fish pond; (2) write a simple two-act play about the the farming operations in ponds and the lives of aquafarming families ; and (3) perform the play on a mini-stage at FishWorld. Teams have to do the following:
Weeks before 23 July: 1. Find and visit an operational punong or fish pond in Panay or Guimaras (but NOT the SEAFDEC/AQD Dumangas Brackishwater Station). Interview the pond owners, operators, and workers. Find out what species are raised in their ponds (e.g., bangus, bulgan, lukon, alimango in brackish water, or the tilapia, pantat, or ulang in fresh water). Observe or study the important farming activities (pond preparation, stocking, feeding, water replacement, harvest, marketing, etc.). Understand the lives of fish farmers and their families, particularly their economic situation in relation to the fish ponds. 2. Discuss the findings of the field study and use the main elements to write the script of an original two-act play with 3–4 characters about the fish farming operations and the lives of fish farming families – how the men go to the ponds every day to take care of the fish or crustacean stocks; how the women market the pond harvest and also maintain the home and take care of the children; and how the children of aquafarming families often have improved access to protein food and a better life; or a similar story line in the Philippine setting… 3. Write the play in English or Filipino (Tagalog, Ilonggo, Cebuano), about 3–4 typewritten pages long and 15–20 minutes long when staged. The play must be educational and appeal to a wide audience. Polish and title the script, prepare a synopsis, and print three copies for submission to FishWorld. 4. Discuss the script and how best to act it out on a mini-stage in the Audio-Visual Rm at FishWorld. The makeshift mini-stage will have an elevation of 1–2 ft, area of 16 ft x 8 ft, and no stage curtains. Room lights can be turned off and on, but there are no special lights. If the actors speak up, microphones are not essential (they only interfere with acting and delivery). 5. Teams perform and practice their respective plays several times at school, using full voice only; the teacher directs and critiques. Props and costumes, if necessary, must be simple and inexpensive.
On 23July, Tuesday afternoon: 1. Register at 1 pm and get from the FishWorld staff a team number indicating the order of play. 2. Submit three copies of the printed script with title, authors, and synopsis of the play. 3. Study the AVR lay-out and mini-stage; make final adjustments in the performance. Performances start at 2 pm. 4. Each team is allowed 20 min to perform the play, inclusive of entrance, breaks, and exit. 5. Plays will be judged according to the following criteria: Depiction of farming operations in fish ponds based on field work and background research (20 pts); Depiction of the lives of fish farmers and fish farming families based on interviews (20 pts); Original storyline, submitted script of the one-act play (20 pts); Speaking and acting skills of the cast (20 pts); Simple and inexpensive props and costumes (10 pts) Educational and emotional value of the play (10 pts)
6. Other notes for the contest: Judges: AQD researchers and the FishWorld Curator Teams must score 70 points to qualify for prizes. Top three plays with scores >70 win prizes: First (P2,000), Second (P1,700), and Third (P1,500). Non-winning teams with scores >70 get P500 to subsidize expenses for field work, practice, etc. Contestants and coaches will receive Certificates of Participation on contest day. Certificates of Merit and cash prizes will be awarded to the winners at 4 pm on Friday, 26 July. Sci-Art AquaWeek 2013 Description of Contests for High Schools
Seafood Festival: “Farmed seafood as appetizer, entrée, and dessert” Page | 13 (26 July, Friday, 9 am –1 pm)
This contest is open to teams (each made of three student-cooks and a teacher-coach) from all interested high schools. Each team prepares three simple but novel seafood dishes (original creations)—an appetizer, a main dish, and a dessert—made with farmed species, including one or more of the following:
Mudcrab Abalone Sea bass Oysters Bangus Native catfish Mussel Rabbitfish Common carp Seaweed Grouper Nile Tilapia Shrimp Mangrove snapper Bighead carp
Weeks before 26 July: 1. Find out what farmed seafood are available locally around the time of the contest. It is best to cook fresh seafood on contest day, 26 July, rather than frozen or processed seafood. 2. Figure out how to use the available farmed seafood in the best ways to produce three dishes—an appetizer, a main dish, and a dessert. 3. Create the three recipes for the three dishes and test-cook and test-taste them. 4. Type and print the three recipes (listing ingredients and describing how to cook) and bring them with the three dishes to FishWorld on contest day.
On 26 July, contest day: 1. Early in the morning, cook at school or at home the three different dishes, each one in an amount (e.g., a big plate worth P200) sufficient for several judges and other test-tasters. 2. Bring to FishWorld the three dishes in appropriate containers, the three recipes, and other materials for the table exhibit and food service. 3. Register at 9 am and get from the FishWorld staff the team numbers to tag the exhibit table, the three dishes, and the three recipes for judging. 4. Occupy a team table and set it up appropriately for proper presentation of the three dishes. 5. Judging time will be between 10 am and 12 nn. Four rounds of judging will be conducted: Table Presentation, Appetizer, Entrée, and Dessert. 6. Judges for the Table Presentation will score the teams at 10 am, with all the three dishes in place and still intact. The criteria and scores for this round (maximum 25 points) are: Dishes in sufficient quantity for tasting and judging: appetizer (3 pts), entrée (3 pts), dessert (3 pts) Three printed recipes for the three dishes (2 pts each, 6 pts total); Beautiful and attractive team table (5 pts); Appropriate outfit of the student-cooks during food service (5 pts) 7. Judging of the three dishes will be done en banc at a table in the AV Rm, the same set of Judges scoring all the Appetizers first, then all the Entrees next, and finally all the Desserts. Each dish will be scored according to the following criteria (maximum 25 points per dish): Farmed seafood species used (3 pts), and novelty of dish (5 pts); Freshness (3 pts), health value (3 pts), delicious taste (5 pts); Aesthetic plating (3 pts); food service by the student-cook (3 pts)
8. Other notes for contest: Judges: AQD researchers and staff Maximum team score is 100 points. Teams must score 70 points to be considered for a prize. The three top-scoring teams win cash prizes: First (P2,000), Second (P1,700), and Third (P1,500). Non-winners with scores >70 will receive P1000 to subsidize the cost of preparations. Contestants and coaches will receive Certificates of Participation on contest day. Certificates of Merit and cash prizes will be awarded to the winners at 4 pm on Friday, 26 July.
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