Contest overview and theme details
Do you know someone who has benefited from biomedical research through prevention, medications, therapeutics or surgery? Are you curious to know how these life-saving technologies have been developed? Do you think that biomedical research could touch your life in the future?
In this contest, students focus on a biomedical research topic that is personally relevant to them. Students could discuss research interventions, devices, or procedures that have impacted their health, the health of someone they love, or their pet. Students could also address how they think biomedical research could affect them in the future.
Contest theme: " BIOMEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AND MY LIFE"
Entry categories:
- Animal Research Helping Humans (ARHH) Virtually every major medical advancement of this century is made possible through research with animals. You might illustrate how is life different today due to cures or treatments available for these diseases or you can feature a personal story of how animal research (medical treatment or cure) has affected you or someone close to you.
- Animal Research Helping Animals (ARHA) Pets and other animals in our lives benefit from animal research too! Antibiotics, vaccines, drug treatments, and advancements in surgery contribute to longer and healthier lives for our animals. Your project can examine how specific research or advancements benefit animals and feature a specific story that has affected the life of an animal you know.
- Animal Research Helping Biomedical Technology (ARHBT) Astounding advancements in medical biotechnology are being created every day. From creating chips that screen for genetic mutations to creating an artificial pump as a substitute for the heart, there's a wide variety of ways new medical technology can impact our health. You can focus your project on how biomedical technology has impacted your life.
- Animal Research and Indigenous Knowledge (ARIK) Indigenous science uses inquiry and observation to gather knowledge. For millennia, this abundance of scientific information has been used for prevention and treatment of human, animal and plant diseases and has made many contributions to current biomedical research. This category allows students to explore indigenous science as it relates to them personally.
Submit your entry as a General or an ELL (English Language Learner) entry.
Steps to participation -
- Let us know of your intent to participate.
- Choose a category (see above) revolving around the central theme.
- Find resources that explain how animal research contributes to the breakthrough.
- Interview a scientist, doctor, patient, or family member that has experience or knowledge about the breakthrough.
- Create your essay, poster, or video and submit it to NWABR by March 15 2018. Submit as a General/ ELL entry.
- Follow the guidelines (checklist) and submit your entry.
- Your entry will be judged by one or more scientists and you will receive a letter with their comments.
- If your essay is selected as a winner, you will receive a cash prize and you, your teacher, and a parent/guardian will be invited to the Awards Day on June 5 2018 at IDRI.
Submission process:
Create a "Title page" , go through the guidelines, make sure to use the naming convention (failure to adhere to the naming convention may result in your entry not being judged) and submit your work.
Thank you to the Knossos Foundation for its generous support!