Competition: Photograph or Podcast it’s up to you!

A competition is being launched to illustrate this year’s Wales Maths Week theme of Round and Round. The prize is either a class trip to Techniquest, or a Techniquest experience at your school.

There were hundreds of excellent entries in the mathcymru photography competition on last October’s theme of Number and Shape (You can view a selection here). But this time the categories are wider. You don’t have to be a budding photographer to enter….you could make a podcast instead.

The theme for Wales Maths Week 2008 is Round and Round….so photographic entries might capture movement, or feature circles, or rings. A podcast might focus on vectors, or the maths involved in Olympic cycling…or rounding up numbers.

Schools can organise internal competitions and then enter the best ten in each age group for final judging. The mathcymru co-ordinator, Dave Breen, says “The competition can challenge pupils on all levels…they have the opportunity to apply their knowledge however it suits them”.

Entries must be uploaded below by Friday November 7.

Rules

Digital pictures (no more than 750kb) to be uploaded here.

Photos must be in .jpg form.

Podcasts (audio only, no more than 2Mb) to be uploaded here.

Podcasts must be in .mp3 form.

Please write up to 100 words on why the subject was chosen.
Include photographer’s name, age at closing date, and name of school. Please identify the number of pupils involved in the internal school round of the competition, where applicable.

A maximum of 10 entries is allowed per Key Stage/section for each school. So if you are entering from a primary school it is perfectly acceptable to enter 10 Key Stage 1 pupils, and an additional 10 Key stage 2 pupils. Likewise secondary schools can enter 10 Key Stage 3 Pupils and an additional 10 from Key Stage 4, as well as 10 from the above Key stage 4 category. However infant schools would be limited to 10 entries in the Key Stage 1 category.

Closing date Friday November 7.