Venue: Plaza Singapura (Open Plaza and the Drome)

Date: 10-12 September (Friday – Sunday)

Time: 11:00am – 6:00pm

The 31 shortlisted teams from the Audition Round will compete for votes from the public for 3 consecutive days and the top 9 scoring teams, plus 1 wildcard team, will advance to the Final Round.

There will be “Science Circus” science shows by Mr Rhys Thomas from U.S. at 2pm and 5pm daily. There will also be several free hands-on activity booths set up for children to play with and learn science at the same time.

This event does not require registration beforehand and admission is free!

So come and find out more on what science busking shows the teams will be presenting and cast your votes to your favourite teams! Also, do not miss out the Science Circus show and some simple and fun activities!

See you at Plaza Singapura!

We would like to invite all the teams in the Busking Round to attend the Crucible Workshop!

Date:  7^th September (Tuesday)

Time: 10am-3:30pm

Venue: Maxwell Auditorium at Level 1 of Science Centre

Schedule:

9.45am – 10.00am Registration

10.00am – 10.30am Introduction and briefing on the Busking Round

10.30am – 1.00pm “How To Be Interesting – incongruity and audience expectation” by Rhys Thomas, guest science   performer  from U.S.

1.00pm – 2.00pm Buffet lunch

2.00pm – 3.30pm “Science Demonstrations with Simple Tools” by Dr Sow Chorng Haur, N.U.S. Physics Demonstration Lab

Information on the workshop:

A. “How To Be Interesting – incongruity and audience expectation.” by Mr Rhys Thomas

In this exclusive workshop to the Busking Round participants, Mr Rhys Thomas (Professional science performer from U.S.) will be addressing the basics of sparking the public’s interest using costume, performance, and humor. This workshop is specially targeted to help you to perform to your best in the Busking Round.

About Mr Thomas:

With nothing more than a college education and thousands of hours of practice, Rhys taught himself enough juggling, comedy and physics to go from Seattle street performer to international stage sensation. Among his many accolades in 20+ years of performing, Mr Thomas has appeared on worldwide television teaching the mathematics of juggling AND be quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the same ecclectic topic, as well as twice representing the U.S. at the Street Theater World Cup in Shizuoka, Japan.

B. “Science Demonstrations with Simple Tools” by Associate Professor Sow Chorng Haur

In this workshop, Dr Sow would be showing a few examples on how to make use of simple tools to illustrate interesting scientific phenomena and to engage you in exercises to develop scientific concepts from the demonstrations shown. 

About Dr Sow:

Besides being the Assistant Dean (Outreach) at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of SIngapore, Dr Sow is passionate about performing and explaining science to the public. He manages the Physics Demonstration Lab team and can be seen frequently performing his demos to students and public.

Registration details:

We strongly encourage at least 1 member from each team to take part in the Crucible Workshop, as important information about the Busking Round and Final Round will be shared with you then.

 To register, please email the names of the attending members from your team to upstream@science.edu.sg by 3rd September.

See you on the Crucible Workshop!

After 3 days of auditions last week, we are happy to announce that the following teams managed to advance from the audition round and make it to the next round – Busking Round – 10-12^th September @ Plaza Singapura!

We thank everyone for their hard work and support of the event! The panel of judges had a difficult task in short listing the below 31 teams. For those who are selected, there will be a workshop on 6 or 7 September conducted by Rhys Thomas, an experienced performer from US to help you further enhance your busking performances!

Congratulation to the following teams!

Teams shortlisted from 5^th August:

1. Best Buskers Team
2. Magical Science
3. Scienthusiast
4. Water Rocket
5. BuzzScience
6. Storm
7. Insworld Intellectuals
8. Eureka
9. CheMagic

Teams shortlisted from 6^thAugust:

1. E-lite kinetics
2. The 3 Science Mice
3. Evenly Odd
4. Magnetic Field
5. Sinking & Floating
6. Please Release Me! Set Me Free!

Teams shortlisted from 7^th August:

1. The Er Trio
2. Combusters
3. The L.C.T
4. Da Wateva
5. The Balloon Tricksters
6. The Busketeer
7. JJA
8. The Science Dummies
9. The Steins
10. The Liquidators
11. Young Sciencetists
12. Which witch is a genie genius
13. Dry Ice Girls
14. The Punchlines
15. Boomz
16. Burnanza

We will keep you updated with more details regarding the Crucible Workshop and the Busking Round. Please look out for our emails!

The registration deadline is now over for the Science Buskers Festival. Many thanks for those of you who have signed up! We will be contacting you with more information regarding the Audition Rounds coming up later in this week!