ReelLIFE SCIENCE Video Competition
Year Awarded
2020
Amount
€21,490
- Organisation:University of Galway
- Audience:Primary Students, Transition Year Students, Primary Teachers, Post Primary Teachers - Junior Cycle, Post Primary Teachers - Senior Cycle, General Public
- Format:Informal Education
- Location:national
- Topic:Science
Project Summary
ReelLIFE SCIENCE is a nationwide STEM engagement programme, which encourages young people and the general public to discover more about STEM and its impact on individuals, society and the environment, while at the same time developing participants’ creativity, team working, communication and digital skills.
Briefly, participants from schools and youth groups are challenged to research a STEM topic and communicate it for the public via an engaging and educational three minute video. The best videos are awarded prizes of up to €1000 and are screened for the public at the Galway Science and Technology Festival, at other public events and online.
Based in NUI Galway and launched in 2013, ReelLIFE SCIENCE has enabled more than 14,000 young people from all over the country to directly engage with STEM in a novel way. The videos produced have had a secondary audience of over 300,000 online and at public screenings, increasing the general public’s knowledge and engagement with science and technology.
Funding from the Discover Programme will mean that, in 2021, ReelLIFE SCIENCE will continue to engage a growing number of students and teachers across the country in primary and secondary schools, while also specifically targeting, training and empowering youth workers and leaders to drive STEM engagement in youth groups and youth development programmes in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. In this way, the programme will increase the science capital of participants from a wide range of backgrounds, making it more likely they will choose STEM subjects and future STEM careers.