sciberpalooza :: Scoop

What’s the scoop on sciberpalooza! ?

sciberpalooza! is just like a science fair at your school, minus the school and judges.

Once your science project is completed, you are ready to submit a sciberpalooza! entry form. You’ll answer some questions about yourself, your school, and your adult “guide”, and then answer some questions about your project—just as you would answer questions asked by a judge, in person.

And here is the fun part: you’ll record a video of yourself explaining your project, as if you would if you were presenting the project before your class or to your teacher or to a science fair judge. You’ll upload the video to TeacherTube and submit your entry form. Our judges will review each submission, view the video, and choose the winners.

What’s the scoop about my video?

It’s a piece of cake. Get a camera, stand or sit in front of your project, and cover the points below. You can use any type of camera or recorder. The judges will be interested in your project, the work you did, and what you have to say about it and not how the video looks. Just take your time and cover the key points. You can read the questions from a piece of paper, or you can have a friend, parent or teacher ask you the questions, just as the two students have done in the sample video we provided.

What do I say in the video?

Here are the key points:

Tell us your first name (do not include your last name or your school).
What led you to choose this topic?
What is your hypothesis (or question) that you are examining?
Tell us about your experiment and the data you collected.
Show and tell us about any of your charts or graphs
Did your experiment work?
What did you learn?
What could you do to improve the experiment?

Sample Video Below:

How do I get my video on TeacherTube?

Visit TeacherTube.com and create a new account.
Once your account has been created, log in and click on “Upload” in the top navigation.
Create a new video album.
Enter your Title, Description, Tags, Video Category, Sub Category (if applicable).
Choose video “Type” as “Public”.
Allow Comments: yes
Allow Ratings: yes
Allow External sites to embed this video: enabled.
Click on the “Continue Uploading” button.
Choose your video from your computer (100MB maximum size) by clicking on the “Browse File” button.
Click the “Upload” button.
It can take from a few minutes to over an hour for your video to upload to TeacherTube.
TeacherTube will take some time to process and post your video for public viewing. Once that process is complete, you are ready to submit your newly uploaded video link to Sciberpalooza via our “Enter” page.

For additional information about TeacherTube, please visit their FAQ page If you're receiving an error with your Upload, you might want to make sure you're attempting to upload a file that's recognized by TeacherTube. TeacherTube accepts video files from most digital cameras and camcorders, and cell phones in the mpeg, wmv, avi, mov, mpg, flv, mp4, ram formats

Have more than one video file to upload?

Learn how to upload them, using the TeacherTube Uploader

Is there a checklist that lists the steps to enter sciberpalooza!

Right here!

Complete your science project
Decide on who your “adult guide” will be (probably either a parent or teacher)
Record your video
Fill out the sciberpalooza! entry form
Submit the form and upload your video to TeacherTube.
Congratulations! Now sit back and let the judges do their work.