ARE YOU A LAB GENIUS?
Show us your flair for science by entering our exciting Lab competition for a chance to win amazing prizes.
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What to do
Simply download an entry form and design your own step-by-step Lab experiment with the theme Christmas. It’s entirely up to you what experiment you choose. For some handy tips and tricks on how to choose the perfect experiment, see the top tips box below. You can find out more about the competition in the new issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature.
To see what other Lab experiments have been featured in The Week Junior Science+Nature click here.
How to enter
Fill out all the details on the entry form and send the whole thing to us at Lab Genius, Science+Nature magazine, 31–32 Alfred Place, London, WC1E 7DP. Alternatively you can scan your entry form and email it to scienceandnature@dennis.co.uk using the subject header LAB GENIUS. Your entry must reach us no later than 11.59pm, 8 November 2019.
The judges
The entries will be judged by a panel that includes Magali Clouzet, Brand Manager at Bandai, Anna Bassi, editor-in-chief of The Week Junior, Dan Green, editor of The Week Junior Science+Nature, and Stevie Derrick, assistant editor of The Week Junior Science+Nature. Winners will be announced in The Week Junior Science+Nature issue 17. Terms and conditions apply*
Top tips
- Think about an experiment that you have done in the classroom or seen someone else do. Would this make a good Lab activity?
- Decide how many steps you need to explain your Lab activity in.
- Use The Lab section in Science+Nature to help you figure out how to write and draw your experiment.
- There’s not much space, so try to describe a step in one or two short sentences.
- Before you write your experiment on paper, try explaining it simply to another person. Do they understand what the experiment is? Can you make it clearer?
- Take pictures to help you write the steps later on.
- Shoot a simple video of your experiment.
Amazing prizes to be won
First prize
One lucky overall winner will receive a huge bundle of National Geographic Dig Kits and other amazing prizes, including:
- All four of the new National Geographic™ Dig Kits and all the National Geographic™ Mini Dig Kits.
- The winner and his/her family will also get VIP access to The Big Bang Fair 2020 – the UK’s biggest celebration of science and technology for young people (including travel & accommodation). You’ll enjoy fast track entry and the chance to meet the stars of the explosive headline shows. You’ll also get the opportunity to meet the The Week Junior Science+Nature team.
Runners-up
- Three lucky runners up will each receive a set of four Dig Kits
*Terms and conditions
Science+Nature competitions are open to those aged 16 and under who are residents of the UK and Republic of Ireland, except employees of Science+Nature, Dennis Publishing and any associated companies and their families.
Science+Nature will not share your personal details with third parties. Science+Nature will only use personal details to contact the competition winners and to arrange delivery of your competition prize. Further details about how we manage the data you provide can be found at dennis.co.uk/privacy-policy
No responsibility can be accepted for entries that have been lost or damaged in transit. Science+Nature will not enter into any correspondence. Proof of emailing will not be accepted as proof of delivery and no responsibility can be accepted for any technical failure or for any event that may cause the competition to be disrupted or corrupted. Entries must be received before 11.59pm on Friday 8 November 2019. Entries received after this time will not be accepted.
All winners will be notified accordingly and their names and addresses will be available on request. No cash alternative for any prizes will be offered. The winner may be required to partake in media activity relating to the competition. The winning entries will be published in Science+Nature magazine, and by entering the competition all entrants give permission for their drawings to be published online. Copyright in the drawing remains with the entrant. Entries cannot be returned to senders.
The prize(s) described are available at the date of publication. Events may occur that render the promotion or the awarding of the prize impossible due to reasons beyond Dennis Publishing’s control, which may at its discretion vary or amend the promotion and the reader agrees that no liability shall be attached to Dennis Publishing as a result thereof. If the winners of the competition are unable to take up a prize for any reason, the Editor-in-chief reserves the right to award it to an alternative winner, in which case the first winner chosen will not be eligible for any share of the prize whatsoever.
Travel and accommodation costs to the Big Bang Fair will be arranged and paid for by Dennis Publishing up to the amount of £500.
The Editor-in-chief’s decision is final and it is a condition of entry to any competition that the entrant agrees to be bound by these rules whether they be published or not, and that the decisions of the Editor-in-chief and judges on any matter whatsoever arising out of or connected with the competition are final.
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