Make a video, win a trip to ICONN

Is your creative side bursting to escape? Are you longing for a close encounter of the nerd kind (oh that is cruel – but as a nerd I reckon I can get away with it)?

Here is your answer. Make a short video about nanotechnology, enter our competition, and you could win entry to the 2012 ICONN conference in Perth. The prize includes airfares and accommodation for 5 nights. There are three of these packages to be won.

ICONN is where anyone important in the field of nanotechnology and microscopy gathers to present or find out about the latest in this area of research. With about 2000 delegates expected there are many close encounters and inspirational conversations to be had.

Your creative inspiration

Nano: that is starting point

What is it: The ‘tininess’ and quantum nature of Nano is a difficult concept for people to get their heads around, so you may want to try and find creative ways to explain it to people. There are some examples of this already on out You Tube channel that might get your creative juices flowing.

Nano and society: There is a lot of hope attached to this science and consequent technologies. Will they be able to live up to expectations? If they can, how will it change society – the way we work, play, interact? In the area of medicine, can it make us live longer, healthier lives; will it allow us to tweak the genetics and hence alter human characteristics and if so, what will this mean for humanity? Or are such changes just part of being human and we will just go with the flow?

What about computing power. Facebook and Twitter and downloading movies and songs are nothing. What if we had the computers with enough power to monitor then store and instantly recall and analyse every conversation, movement, like, dislike, medical condition….your whole lives on something the size of a thumb drive. Very cool stuff, but then everything about you is in database able to be instantly accessed by a computer…?  Might be a good thing if it means stopping crime, terrorism, etc, but then how much privacy are you prepared to give up to potentially achieve this??

…the story ideas are endless. Entries will be judged on the strength and clarity of the explanation; and the originality of the work.

Go forth and create.

You will have to get your skates on though because the competition will close on the 21 December 2011.  and

Competition details

All the details about the competition, conditions of entry and how to enter are here.

An important note: The competition is only open to Australian residents.

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