EV Virtual ScienceFair
Calling all children of EV Employees! Yikes! We are all home for a few weeks. LET’S DO SCIENCE (& Engineering & Computer Programming)!
Submit a science project.
The EV Machine Learning team and the Women-in-Tech group are co-sponsoring the FIRST EVER EV Virtual Science Fair! Starting April 1, 2020 and going through April 24, 2020, you can submit a science project. Children of all ages, in all locations are welcome. One winner in each age category will be determined. Winning kids will receive a prize! All participants will receive a digital certificate.
Rules:
- 1 submission per child
- You must submit your project writeup and materials below before April 24, 2020
Judging criteria:
Entries will be judged on idea, documentation), novelty, thoroughness, and creativity. Please keep documentation to 500 – 1000 words). You can include a YouTube video link (maximum 2-3 minutes) upon submission. Use this template for your documentation: https://github.com/shaystrong/sciencefair/blob/master/Template.md
Kids 13+ years old are encouraged to create public Github repositories and submit the link upon entering their results. The judges are a mixture of Data Scientists, Astronomers, and Software Developers at EV.
Project types:
All types of science is welcome; we encourage an emphasis on engineering, computer science, data science, and coronavirus projects. Why corona virus you ask? – because there is a lot of amazing data. We want to see you ask questions and help us understand why we are all stuck at home.
1 winner per age bracket:
Up to 5 years old
6 – 8 years old
9 – 11 years old
12 – 14 years old
15+ years old
Winners will be announced May 1, 2020 on EV Workplace.
Useful References & Project Ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSh2l8jOpghZUtpFvmBP8m5mUIYe1fTl6
https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/big-data
Data related to COVID-19
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-cases