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AQ-IQ
Contest Guidelines
The Air Quality IQ contest allows middle school
students to show off what they know about air quality problems and
solutions. Each game, poster, brochure, diorama, video, poems, or
journal will highlight air quality issues, and how to resolve those
issues.
- Any sixth, seventh, or eighth grade student
from any public, private, or home school in Buncombe, Henderson,
Haywood, and Madison counties is eligible to participate.
- 1 - 4 students may submit a project together.
No more than 4 students may submit a shared project. Working
individually or as a group will not affect judging of the project.
- The Clean Air Community Trust reserves the
right to keep projects to use as educational tools, otherwise it
will be available for students to take home after the Air Expo.
- Projects Due at the Clean Air Community
Trust office between November 26 and November 30, 2007
- Awarded will be presented at the third annual
Air Expo in January of 2008
Project Guidelines
- Please be sure that each project includes
the name or names of students who are submitting it, their teacher's
name, grade, and school name.
- Judges will be critiquing projects in 3
areas: Factual air quality information, Creativity, and Neatness
and overall professional quality. Please use these as a guide when
creating your project.
- It should include specific and correct facts
about an air quality issue of importance, demonstrate creativity,
and be as neat and "professionally" done as possible.
- These areas combined will determine how
effective the project is as an educational tool about air quality
and air pollution. Keep in mind that it should teach others who
view it or interact with it.
- Most creative formats are acceptable including
poster, video, model, game board, brochure, Power Point, or other
computer presentation software.
- For all media-related projects, the project
must be viewable or audible via computer, regular cassette player,
DVD player, or VCR. Therefore it must be submitted on CD, jump
drive (memory stick), DVD, video-cassette, or audio-cassette. If
judges cannot open project or access it, it cannot be considered for
the contest.
- For Power Point presentations, please submit
file in .ppt format only, or if submitting it in Power Point viewer
format, also include it in .ppt format.
- For all model projects, please make sure that
all segments are secure and will remain secure during transport.
- For all game submissions, please include
directions and all pieces needed to play the game and also label
separated parts with the names of the students, teacher, school, and
grade.
- Teachers, parents, and students please make
sure that materials used to create the project are approved by the
parent/teacher.
CACT staff will assign each project to a category based on the number
and types of projects received. The number of place winners in each
category will depend on the number of projects in that category. The
Grand Prize of $500 will be awarded to the teacher of the classroom of
the grand prize winning student(s). Prize packages will also be awarded
to the winning students.
The CACT Board of Directors and their guests judge projects, and all
decisions are final.
If you are
considering submitting a project or have questions, please let us know
by e-mailing us at
keith.bamberger@ncmail.net or by calling Keith Bamberger at
828-296-4500.
TEACHERS: Here are some areas where CACT board
members and volunteers might be able to make presentations in your
classroom. To schedule a class visit, please call (828) 296-4500 or
e-mail keith.bamberger@ncmail.net
Health:
- Grade 6 Health 1.04, 1.05 recognizing and
controlling asthma
- Grade 6&7 Health, 8.xx Active Lifestyle
- Grade 8 Health, 3.05 Health Consequences of
global environmental problems
- Grade 8 Health 3.06 Behaviors and strategies
to contribute to environmental improvement
Science:
- Grade 7 Science 1.01, 1.02, 1.04, 1.05
Properties of air, measurements of particulate matter, ozone and
other properties, evaluation of the human impact and technology.
- Grade 8 Science 1.04 Air pollution as a human
impact on water quality
Social Studies:
- Grade 8 9.01 Contemporary issues in the
community
- Grade 8 9.03 Civic Participation
- Grade 9 7.03 Causes and Effects of
Industrialization
- Grade 9 10.xx Personal responsibility and
environmental issues.
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