The Science Jamboree Competition a Leaders Guide

The Science Jamboree Competition A Leaders Guide Usually, around this time every year we would be inviting 100’s of Beavers, Cubs, Rainbows and Brownies to come and visit us for a day of exciting science- based activities in our state-of-the-art teaching labs. Since that won’t be possible this year, we’ve decided to create a virtual competition with an emphasis on encouraging young people to think about sustainable energy and recycling in their local area. While there is a high degree of flexibility at each stage explained further on, we expect an example of how the event could be run to be: 1. Register to take part at: www.tinyurl.com/scijamliv 2. Introduce the idea to the young people in an existing online meeting, show the introductory video and ask them to go for a walk with their family and record what types of renewable energy they find before the next stage. 3. As part of a later online meeting, show the young people some of our resources on sustainable energy, and ask them to create a poster/presentation about it. 4. Get the parents to send you their posters, then show them off anonymously to the group and ask them to vote for which is their favourite. 5. Submit the unit’s best entry at: www.tinyurl.com/scijamliventries The Hike The main purpose of the first stage is for the young people to explore their local community and see what types of renewable energy they can find. These can come in many forms, but solar panels and wind turbines are likely to be the most common. This part of the competition can be completed in lots of different ways and how your section does it will depend on what you, the young people and their parents/carers are comfortable with doing. This could mean organising a walk as a group where this is allowed, encouraging the young people to explore with their families, or even using google maps street view over zoom. If you’re exploring in person, and it is safe to do, you could also organise a litter pick while you walk. You could talk to the young people about what kind of things can be recycled and separate this from the general waste. This will vary slightly depending on your local authority, but generally cans, bottles, paper, cardboard etc. can be recycled. The Presentation The next stage is that the young people should make a presentation around sustainable energy and/or recycling. This could be in the form of a poster, a PowerPoint, a video or any other idea they can come up with. You could run this as an activity over zoom or ask the young people to create something in their own time to share as a group. These presentations can be as general or as specific as you choose, they could focus entirely on one type of sustainable energy in detail, cover a variety of different types or even explain the concept of sustainable energy and its importance. We will be providing some resources on our website to help you understand and explain these ideas that you could go through with your group. You can find them here: https://lussago.wordpress.com/ The Competition Finally, we are asking each unit taking part to submit their best presentation to our competition. The top 20 from each section will win one of our fantastic badges for everyone in their unit (including leaders!) and the best will win a sustainable goodie bag. It’s up to you how to choose which presentation to submit, but you could make it part of the event for the young people by asking them which they prefer. We are currently expecting to ask for £5 per unit in order to enter, which will cover our running costs and the details, terms and conditions can be found on the registration form at: www.tinyurl.com/scijamliv Submissions will be accepted between 11th November and 24th December 2020 at www.tinyurl.com/scijamliventries and the winners will be announced by 25th January 2021 Badges Obviously, as part of the competition, the top 20 units in each section will all earn our SciJam2020 Badge, but it has always been a key part of the event to help young people achieve their official badges as well. We want this to continue, and so in the process of completing the event, young people will also be working towards some of their official badges. While this is obviously at the discretion of the leader, we expect Beavers should earn their Explore Activity badge, Cubs should contribute towards their Environmental Conservation Activity Badge, Rainbow and Brownie leaders should use their own badge books to determine what requirements this fulfils. Contact We will be sending updates, announcements and information through the social media channels for the Scout and Guide Society (LUSSAGO), which can be found below: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LUSSAGO?s=07 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/livuniscoutsandguides/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/livuniscoutsandguides If you have any issues the main point of contact is Chris Marchant, Outreach Manager for the University’s School of Physical Sciences, who can be contacted at [email protected] .

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