Nationwide Undergraduate Chemistry Video Competition

该奖项由无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目颁发给宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学园区的Raymond Schaak教授，通过YouTube视频与公众就各种化学主题进行万维网交流。Schaak教授和他的团队将征集三类三分钟(或更短)的视频，重点介绍化学概念：歌曲和小品、化学演示和化学研究讨论。该项目的目标是吸引这种相对较新的电子媒体的主要用户--本科生和高中生--对他们的同龄人和一般公众进行化学和科学方面的教育。由大学和高中化学教职员工和学生组成的审查委员会对该项目进行技术监督，将确保视频中包含的内容是正确的，因此，电子文档可以作为教师、学生和非科学家的可靠信息来源。最佳视频将由评审团选出，主要作者将被邀请在美国化学学会(ACS)的全国会议上展示他们的作品(作为海报和口头陈述的一部分)。来自NSF的本科生-本科生站点的研究经验，美国化学学会的学生分会，以及来自不同地理、种族和经济背景的大量大学化学系的本科生将被邀请参加。

This award by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program to Professor Raymond Schaak of Pennsylvania State University - University Park, addresses world wide web communications with the public on a variety of chemistry themes using YouTube videos. Professor Schaak and his group will solicit three categories of three-minute (or shorter) videos highlighting chemistry concepts presented as: songs and skits, chemistry demonstrations, and discussions of chemical research. The goal of the project is to enlist the main users of this relatively new electronic media - undergraduate and high schools students - in educating their peers and the general public about chemistry and science, in general. Technical oversight of the project by a review committee composed of university and high school chemistry faculty and students will ensure that the content contained in the videos is correct, and thus, that the electronic documents can be used as a reliable source of information for teachers, students, and non-scientists. The best videos will be selected by this judging panel and the lead authors will be invited to present their work (as both a poster and a part of an oral presentation) at a national American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting. Undergraduate students from NSF-Research Experiences for Undergraduate sites, American Chemical Society student chapters, and a large number of college chemistry departments from geographically, ethnically, and economically diverse locations will be invited to participate.