Magnetic Shield

2018 Grand Prize Winners – Anna Brooks and Joe Iovino Magnetic Shield The project was a hybrid stop-motion animation and live action music video describing the poetry of the magnetic shield and its role in protecting life on earth. The sets for the filmwere...

Rhodochrosite

2018 Honorable Mention – Adrianna Kusmierczyk Rhodochrosite After exploring the mineral room at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History I was inspired by the colors, textures and layers of the many different minerals I saw. As I read the histories and...

Advent of the Undiscovered

2018 Honorable Mention – Josiah Sherk Advent of the Undiscovered In the observable universe, there are estimated to be well over a trillion galaxies, each containing roughly 100 billion stars depending on its size. Galaxies are some of the largest structures in...

How to Be a Stomach

2018 Honorable Mention – Hollyann Stewart How to Be a Stomach “How to Be a Stomach” represents the scientific process of digestion with an emphasis on the role of the stomach and its sphincters. My goal was to create a fun twist on the typical scientific...

Totality

2018 Honorable Mention – Dylan Ma Totality The greatly anticipated Total Solar Eclipse revealed a rarely seen part of the Sun, and for two short minutes, transformed the shadowed landscape below. For nearly two years I planned exactly where I would be and what...