We have uploaded the pictures in the Photos tab, please feel free to browse through.

Enjoy!

We have consolidated the participants’ videos as well as videos from the Final Round on our Science Buskers Festival YouTube Channel – click here to see all of them, plus videos from previous years.

Thank you to all the participants for their hard work and support!

Below are some pictures from the Busking Round as well as the Final Round:

Click on the “Photos” tab at the top right hand corner to see more photos!

We had an exciting finale to this year’s festival, with the ten finalists battling it out for the Awards. The judges had a tough time deciding among the teams. Here are the results (combination of scores from online voting, voters and judges):

Science Buskers Festival 2010 Winners

• Most Popular Online Video-clip Award – $150 cash
Best Buskers Team
• Best Dressed Award – $150 cash
Best Buskers Team
• Best Teamwork Award – $150 cash
JJA
• Best Stage Presence Award – $150 cash
e-lite Kinetics
• Best Communicator Award – $150 cash
Buzz Science
• Best Group Supporters Award – $500 cash
Best Buskers Team
• Best Junior Buskers Award – $150 cash – Individual
Adrian Yeo from JJA
• Best Teenage Busker Award – $150 cash – Individual
Ong Ze Xuan from Chemagic
• Second Runner-up – $300 cash and 1-year renewable Science Centre Contract to perform on a per need basis (with remunerations)
Buzz Science

• First Runner-up – $500 cash and 1-year renewable Science Centre Contract to perform on a per need basis (with remunerations)
Best Buskers Team

• D’ Science Busker – Champion – $1,000 cash and 1-year renewable Science Centre Contract to perform on a per need basis (with remunerations)
e-lite Kinetics

We will be contacting the winners for more details for the prizes. The photos from the Final Round will be uploaded when they are ready.

We congratulate all the winners and thank all participants for their hard work and enthusiasm, as well as the strong support from the teachers and families. We couldn’t have done it without you!  

Thank you and join us for next year’s festival!

We received questions on how to “like” a video, so here’s a step by step on how to do so. We used an old video from last year’s SBF event as an example:

YouTube requires you to sign up for an account first before you “like” a video. This is to prevent spamming.

Step 1. Sign up for a YouTube account by clicking on the “Create Account” on the top right of a YouTube video.

Step 2. While signed in, visit the YouTube video of the team you support.

Step 3. Click on the “Like” icon on the below left of the video to like the video. The number of “likes” for the video would be tallied and displayed if you have done it correctly.

For the number of pageviews, that would be updated by YouTube on a regular basis.

We hope this guide has been useful for you. We thank you for your support of our Science Buskers festival!

After 3 days of busking at Plaza Singapura, the top 9 teams plus 1 wildcard team chosen by the judges have advanced to the Final Round!

Below are the 10 teams going into the Final Round of Science Buskers Festival 2010 on 18 September at Science Centre:

Top 9 Teams (in alphabetical order)

Wildcard Team

Here are the video links of the 10 finalist teams.

We thank all the teams, supporters and visitors for their hard work and warm support for this event.

If you wish come down to Science Centre to vote for the teams on the Final Round, please contact us at 6425 2590 or email us at upstream@science.edu.sg by 15 September

 The Online Busking Round will last from 10 September to 17 September, come and check out the videos of the teams!

The number of likes and number of views of the teams’ videos will count towards a percentage of the total votes for the Final Round on 18 Sept @ Science Centre.

Onling voting will close on 17 Sept, 12 midnight.

Click on the Teams’ name to view the videos!

Updated on 11 Sept:

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 (from 11am-6pm). Free popcorn will be provided too!

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!