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Prize For The Best Science Post.

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  • 11-03-2004 4:58pm
    #1
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭


    I've some spare grant money for science awareness promotion, so I've decided to throw a few bob towards boards.

    Basically, I'm going to run a post of the month prize in the science sub section (comprised of Astronomy/Space, Biology/Medicine, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics/Chemistry and Science). If this is successful I will run it for up to six months.

    One post will be nominated from each of the 6 science forums every month and the best post will be chosen from that.

    The winning poster will get a 20 Euro booktoken for his/her trouble.

    POSTS DO NOT NEED TO BE TECHNNICAL TO BE CONSIDERED

    Posts will be judged on:

    Bringing interesting areas to attention.
    Clear and simple explanations of difficult concepts.
    Generating interesting discussions.
    Showing an original and good understanding of an area.
    Showing good scientific-minded reasoning.
    Accessability to the lay person.


    Posts will be excluded if:

    Flaming/trolling and/or spamming occurs
    Plagerism is evident.
    They are merely article quotes or googled pastes.
    They violate any forum charter rules.

    The judges decision will be final and the first prizewinner will be announced on the First monday of April (5th).
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Showing an original and good understanding of an area.
    Showing good scientific-minded reasoning.
    Well thats me out of running for E20 then :(


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    patch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,519 ✭✭✭patch


    Good man Syke, that's very decent of you.


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    Sangre
    Registered Users Posts: 12,169 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Fair play syke for taking the iniciative.
    I never read the science forums enough lately, might pop on in now to see the contenders.


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    stereo_steve
    Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭stereo_steve


    Brilliant! The science forum has always been slow moving. Maybe now people will take more of an interest.

    well done syke


    "So why do cats always land on their feet!!! " :p


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    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    POSTS DO NOT NEED TO BE TECHNNICAL TO BE CONSIDERED

    Spelling and science are uneasy bedfellows.


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    PrecariousNuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭PrecariousNuts


    Wow fair play, I'd love one to win one of those. I just finished the Golden Ratio and I can't wait to get my hands on another book.


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    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Well, there wasn't much to sing about at the start of the month, but as things picked up towards the end we left judging runa little longer and there were some really good posts to consider.

    The winner of this months prize is: dgarrad for posting what was a very interesting question and prompted a nicely debated thread.

    I'll PM to sort out an amazon or Irish book token for you (which ever you prefer) for 20 yoyos. Congrats.

    Honourable mentions go to smiles and aryzel for these posts.

    Thanks to all the science-related mods for helping me out. We'll hold off awarding the prize each month unless there is actually something worth awarding.

    And consideration for the next prize starts today.

    Syke


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    Dave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Dave


    Well done. It was a really interesting post and deserving of the prize.


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